Here at USC when a faculty member wants to use a library film for
classroom viewing purposes our policy requires that the film automatically
then be made a reserve item. Circulation of said item is then limited
to four hours and not the regular three days accorded to the rest of the
films in our collection. In this way students who may have missed the class
when the film was shown generally have a good chance of seeing
the film.
Seems to work for us.
Cheers!
Anthony
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Assistant Director, Doheny Memorial Library
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182
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Chris Lewis wrote:
Thanks, Victoria. The reason I brought this up is because I was
reviewing Standard Operating Procedures and our rather elaborate
system for alerts and texting waiting students. It's most definitely
an added value, above and beyond, but some professors just ignore the
pre-planning part and the students pay for it. The desk staff like a
challenge so they came up with the system. We do suggest group
viewings and lobby professors but there are still situations.
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:27 PM, CAPLAN Victoria F <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Chris,
In that case we might suggest that the professors ask the students to
organize themselves for a group viewing in the Library(we have some group
viewing rooms that can fit up to 12 people in them).
We also might do "manual" hold, where we take down the name of the student
and when the video in question is returned, call or text the student next
in line and let them know they have 15 minutes to pick it up after the
call or text, or else lose that chance.
But the other thing is to also acknowledge that this problem is created by
the professors not informing the Library of their needs in time. So while
you do what you can to solve it, don't take it to heart. Instead, call or
email the profs before next term and ask them what they will need next
term, to try and prevent it happening again.
-Victoria
HKUST Library
Actually I'm referring to videos that are already reserved or
restricted to in-house use. We have cases where three professors
teaching the same course, without notifying us, have told their
students to watch a given title in a given week. Typically the
students start streaming in the day before class and there are
frequent turn-aways. So some type of simpler hold system would be
nice.
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Ball, James (jmb4aw)
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Chris,
We would probably just put it on reserve and let them watch it in the
library.
Cheers,
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Lewis
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 12:54 PM
To: Videolib
Subject: [Videolib] Procedure question: Do you have a hold queue for
situations when multiple students need to watch a given title before a
class? If so, how does it work?
We have a somewhat cumbersome (15 step) system that involves a feature
in the circulation system and text messages. It's too complex to
remember when needed and I think someone surely has developed a simpler
intuitive system. Anyone?
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Media Librarian
American University Library
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