Thought I'd pipe in with some of my experience on this front -- while
this (directing folks to a selected list of items with PPR) sounds
completely logical, to my surprise it is one of the hardest things I've
ever had convince people to do. When faculty, students, etc. get
excited about putting together screenings, 99.9% of the time it is
because of their attachment to a very specific title. Even when I
headed up a committee to run a film series on campus -- I could hardly
ever get my colleagues and fellow organizers to look at a catalog for
companies from which we knew we could get prints / rights (that
contained some great films, no less) -- they'd rather send ya on a
needle / haystack hunt. We started adding PPR notes to our catalog
records; I can share this nugget with faculty wanting to program
extra-curricular screenings umpteen-million times, but they tend to
always come back to the original film that inspired the idea and are
baffled that it's not as easy as Amazon One-click.
Happy Friday,
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Meghann Matwichuk, M.S.
Associate Librarian
Film and Video Collection Department
Morris Library, University of Delaware
181 S. College Ave.
Newark, DE 19717
(302) 831-1475
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On 9/29/2011 4:48 PM, Jessica Rosner wrote:
Barb and others
One thing to try is show the student groups the films you already have
with PPR rights and see if they can use one of those. I have been
working on a few docs that are not available retail and can only be
bought with PPR rights, they may not exactly be
Transformers 3 , but they are if I do say so myself very good feature
films that did indeed play in a limited number of theaters as well as
other venues. Take all those titles you had to buy with PPR and see if
group can find stuff to program
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Bergman, Barbara J
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
It’s something new we tried out last year – we started getting
more requests from student groups. Not sure if other funding
disappeared or if someone is paying better attention to copyright.
Thus far it’s first-come. Obviously, the money isn’t going to
cover more than a couple of PPR film purchases, but it’s a way to
funnel the requests.
Barb Bergman | Media Services & Interlibrary Loan Librarian |
Minnesota State University, Mankato | (507) 389-5945
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Hi Barb,
I’m glad to hear about your PPR program of setting aside some
money to help students with their screenings, I’ve been thinking
about doing something similar. You mentioned that you set aside
$1,000 for PPR and that student groups can apply for it with the
criteria that the screening has some educational purpose. Do the
students apply on a first-come basis and then when the money is
gone then it’s gone?
Cheers,
Matt
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University of Virginia
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*Bergman, Barbara J
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and Special Series
Hi Debra-
We generally limit departments to no more than 25% of their
library allocation for non-book purchases.
If the title seems multi-disciplinary, I’ll usually pick it up
with my video budget. If it’s pricey and rather specialized, we
can split the cost between their account and mine.
For series, I usually look at per title cost. They might have to
wait awhile.
We’ve been getting more questions about PPR. Not sure if it’s
because less funding is available elsewhere, or if people are more
aware that they need the PPR...
We setup up a small account of $1000 where student groups can
apply for us to buy a film with PPR for them to do a screening.
(Criteria: some educational purpose, not merely for entertainment)
Sounds like as much of your dilemma is internal funding structure
as are the departments themselves. Good luck.
I have to say that $650, it had better be for a great big public
event not a single class.
Barb Bergman | Media Services & Interlibrary Loan Librarian |
Minnesota State University, Mankato | (507) 389-5945
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<mailto:[email protected]>
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relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control,
preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and
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