Hi All, I do not work in an academic setting, but this issue has always irked me as a public librarian. Since finishing library school, I have worked for three different library systems of three different sizes, but have experienced the same issue at all three of them. Namely, the AV materials are consistently placed at the back of the line for priority. And perhaps even more so than in an academic setting, AV materials easily comprise 40-50 percent (or more) of overall circulation in most public libraries, yet they continue to be ignored and discounted as to their intrinsic worth to the system. Recently, I have had to tell several different patrons that AV materials I had ordered four months or more prior were not yet available for their use. I have gone so far as to ask (beg) the head of technical services to send the items to me so I could catalog/process them, but to no avail.
Very frustrating. Blane Halliday Collier County Public Library Branch Manager, Vanderbilt Beach Library 788 Vanderbilt Beach Road Naples, Florida 34108 Phone: (239) 597-8444 Fax: (239) 597-3653 bhalli...@collier-lib.org 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.
