Greetings Colleagues, We are planning a discussion forum bringing together public and technical services librarians with faculty actively using video in the classroom. We’d like your advice. The purpose would be to spark a discussion that would inform our cataloging policies and practices. For example, we have never indexed country of origin or original language, but there are new draft best practices for this and if there were sufficient interest we would consider a policy change. We have a list of about 200 faculty who use video in the classroom and they would all be invited. For this program we envision a few faculty speakers with diverse perspectives making brief presentations, followed by a discussion over lunch. For example we might have professors from cinema studies, a language program, social science or history, and communications. This will also be an opportunity for us to offer faculty information such as searching tips, streaming video availability, and video in the institutional repository, which we may include as presentations or handouts. We wonder if anyone else has done anything similar or might have suggestions for us. Can you think of questions you’ve always wanted to ask faculty, or ways to tap into their insights? Some of the questions we’re thinking to include are: · How do you use video · How do you find video (in the catalog and elsewhere) · How can we facilitate your use of video · What are typical video requests · What do you find problematic about finding video in the catalog · What are specific problematic title requests (difficult to find videos) · Rank the usefulness of retrieval by o genre/form o subject (for fiction) o subject (for nonfiction) o country of origin o original language o other We are hoping for a lively discussion and hope your ideas will help make this happen. Many thanks in advance. All best, Jane Otto, Music and Media Metadata Librarian Jane Sloan, Media Librarian Rutgers University Libraries [email protected] (732) 445-5904 (732) 445-5888 (fax) Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey Library Technical Services Building 47 Davidson Road Piscataway, NJ 08854-5603
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.
