We have somewhere around 17,000 VHS tapes and somewhere around 18,000 DVDs (and an addition couple hundred more VCDs from Southeast Asia that are only briefly cataloged)
(Note: we have an additional couple of thousand tapes from the International Latino Film festival that haven't been cataloged...and may never be, given the frigid financial climate in California) We send somewhere around 2-3K titles out to classrooms for screenings a semester. (We don't put stuff on reserve for on-site viewing because we don't circulate our stuff to students for outside viewing...in essence, the entire collection is on reserve) gary > Just out of curiosity. Would you mind sharing how many VHS titles and how > many DVD titles you have in your collections. Also I'd be interested in > how many titles you put on reserve per semester. Just ball park numbers. > I'm not doing anything with these figures other than pondering them. > > As for us: > We have in the neighborhood of 9300 VHS titles, 7000 DVD titles and put > about 100 items on reserve per semester. > > Erika > * * * * * * > Erika Peterson > Director of Media Resources > Carrier Library, James Madison University > (540) 568-6770 > http://www.lib.jmu.edu/media > 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. > Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library UC Berkeley 510-643-8566 [email protected] http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC "I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself." --Francois Truffaut 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.
