Hi Jared, As you'll see from responses, there are many factors about your campus and community that may affect how you handle the collection. Look at existing policies and determining how well they serve your patrons. Do practices reflect modern video collections or are they holdovers from the 16mm film days? Video collections are costly investments - is yours a well-used resource or locked away in the stacks?
I'm strongly in favor of open stacks. If you have questions after reading the article in Library Trends, feel free to ask. ~Barb Barb Bergman | Media Services & Interlibrary Loan Librarian | Minnesota State University, Mankato | (507) 389-5945 | [email protected]
VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
