Yes, the vagaries of LC do leave us with some frustrating issues--movies made from literature are in the PR, PS etc even if they are popular feature films. We do make decisions to put a few titles in different places. One of the advantages is that I can tell a student that if they find a book on a subject they want, they can check the same number (usually) in the video section to find a visual item. Christine Crowley Dean of Learning Resources Adjunct Faculty--Theatre Northwest Vista College 3535 N. Ellison Dr. San Antonio, TX 78251 210.486.4572 office 210.486.4504 fax [email protected] Northwest Vista College is one of the Alamo Colleges www.alamo.edu/nvc/lrc
________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of Randal Baier Sent: Mon 5/23/2011 12:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Videolib] Question about LC call numbers Yeah, I get your point on that Christine. Agreed. We keep ours in a case back where the mushrooms grow, so we don't have them on open shelves at all. But for Matt and others who have them on the shelves, I can see the sense of having them integrated. But I would still want to see Peckinpah with Peckinpah, so that the movies were also side by side with criticism and so forth, similar to literature. Integrated by topic, subject, rather than by format. Rather than finding a Peckinpah movie in a feature films by title (PN1997 .B for Ballad, etc.) < this gets to Matt's question about Cuttering by author or title. Regarding discovery by chance, I must say, rather than a nightmare, browsing by accession numbers is serendipity's paradise. Consider just these four from a random listing: DVD567 Comet collision > DVD 568 Voyage to the planets and beyond > DVD569 Run Lola Run > DVD 570 Cité des enfants perd[us]. But the more we can do to enhance access the better -- various types of listings can only help. To be honest, I don't really have a simple listing in one column that says something like "Films About Africa." Maybe I am missing something --I can see accession numbers for closed stacks where the DVDs are retrieved after a patron finds them in the catalog. However, what about browsers who want to look through foreign films, musicals, etc. Accession number order would be a nightmare for serendipity, no? Christine Crowley Dean of Learning Resources Adjunct Faculty--Theatre Northwest Vista College 3535 N. Ellison Dr. San Antonio, TX 78251 210.486.4572 office 210.486.4504 fax [email protected] Northwest Vista College is one of the Alamo Colleges www.alamo.edu/nvc/lrc ________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of Rick Faaberg Sent: Sun 5/22/2011 9:51 PM To: Videolib List Subject: Re: [Videolib] Question about LC call numbers On 5/22/11 7:02 PM, "Randal Baier" <[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> sent this: In my opinion, humbled by such an august group, this is a compulsion up with which I will not put. Given the catalogs we use, if there are decent subject headings and full information, and format filters, I don't really think it's necessary to LCify media. Incremental accession numbers work for us. I concur. I did the LC thing with our K-12 collection way back when - and the library users (teachers) did not like it at all. (The school librarians did like it, but that's another story :) One year later, back to the subject headings and accession numbers. Best Rick Faaberg 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.
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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.
