Ha ha, in case anyone's wondering, I though Erika had sent this message directly to me rather than to videolib. That's why it's a bit more casual and conversational. BTW, Erin Mayhood is our Director for User Experience and was instrumental in helping us switch over to a new user interface that incorporates facets, etc. I worked with her and some of our developers to come up with a "video portal" that would help patrons search just for videos using facets that are specific to this area, more or less. It's still a work in progress, but at least now our patrons can search for videos by language.
M- ______________________________ Matt Ball Media Services Librarian University of Virginia [email protected]<https://mail.eservices.virginia.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=f9bb9e66e0cb45eb9c98da126198ad7e&URL=mailto%3amattball%40virginia.edu> 434-924-3812 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ball, James (jmb4aw) Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 1:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Videolib] title count/reserve count Sure, I don't mind. It's your former collection anyway. :) You can actually learn a lot about our collection from the Video View page in Virgo: http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog?portal=video According to the facets on the left, under "Format" you can see that we have 16,539 DVDs and 15,548 VHS tapes. By clicking "See More" you can see all of the other formats too (2,738 LDs, etc.). Erin Mayhood says these numbers are slightly incorrect since, I think, they basically represent search hits for titles, rather than copies. I think. So if we have 10 copies of Citizen Kane all on one record then that would show up as 1 in the Format facet. So we have 16,539 titles and, say 17,000 copies? As for reserves, I do have some data for spring 2010. It looks like we had 1,253 DVD *copies* on reserve (so sometimes multiple copies of the same title), 341 VHS, and 31 laserdiscs. M- ______________________________ Matt Ball Media Services Librarian University of Virginia [email protected]<https://mail.eservices.virginia.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=f9bb9e66e0cb45eb9c98da126198ad7e&URL=mailto%3amattball%40virginia.edu> 434-924-3812 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peterson, Erika Day - petersed Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 1:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Videolib] title count/reserve count 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
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