We've tried a couple of lease plans over the years, and found two problems: Not all movies are available for lease, and it's much cheaper to buy the movies. We purchase most of our newer DVDs from Midwest Tape, and occasionally buy older titles through Amazon.
Ralph Tomlinson, MLS Adult Services Librarian Olathe Public Library 201 E. Park Street Olathe, KS 66061 (913) 971-6889 rtomlin...@olatheks.org -----Original Message----- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2012 2:53 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: videolib Digest, Vol 58, Issue 15 Send videolib mailing list submissions to videolib@lists.berkeley.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/video...@lists.berkeley.ed u or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu You can reach the person managing the list at videolib-ow...@lists.berkeley.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of videolib digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: More film suggestions (Logan, Michael) 2. Re: DVD Lease plans (Tatar, Becky) 3. Re: DVD Lease plans (Tatar, Becky) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 20:30:42 +0000 From: "Logan, Michael" <mlo...@co.humboldt.ca.us> Subject: Re: [Videolib] More film suggestions To: "videolib@lists.berkeley.edu" <videolib@lists.berkeley.edu> Message-ID: <7e586b0eafab824482519036e9af78a521d...@cty-xcn01.all.co.humboldt.ca.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I would recommend The Red Violin (1998)<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120802/>, that traces the life of a particular violin throughout the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries Michael Logan Acquisitions and Technical Services Humboldt County Library (707) 269-1962 ________________________________ From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] on behalf of Sarah E. McCleskey [sarah.e.mccles...@hofstra.edu] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 11:27 AM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: [Videolib] More film suggestions Hi everyone, Your responses to my last question were so helpful and the professor loved them. She has another question now and I am again soliciting your input. Thanks in advance! She says: I am teaching a writing course and the theme is classical music/music in the western world. Any films you have that describe the following musical time periods (they do not have to be connected to music but I would like a film that gives us a strong sense of history during that time) would be fabulous: Antiquity and the Middle Ages The Renaissance The Baroque The Pre-Classical Period The Classical Period The Later Nineteenth Century/: Romanticism, etc The Twentieth Century I thought a film might be a good way to introduce the readings in each of these units. Sarah E. McCleskey Head of Access Services Acting Director, Film and Media Library 112 Axinn Library, 123 Hofstra University Hempstead, NY 11549 sarah.e.mccles...@hofstra.edu<mailto:sarah.e.mccles...@hofstra.edu> 516-463-5076 (phone) 516-463-4309 (fax) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment scrubbed and removed. HTML attachments are only available in MIME digests. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 21:36:03 +0000 From: "Tatar, Becky" <blt...@aurora.lib.il.us> Subject: Re: [Videolib] DVD Lease plans To: "'videolib@lists.berkeley.edu'" <videolib@lists.berkeley.edu> Message-ID: <5d59e4c8fdafb44c86b865b6a54fe9cf308bc...@aplexch1.aurorapubliclibrary.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" My thoughts exactly, but I have purchased a few nonfiction titles over the years that really haven't circulated - hard to believe, but true! Becky Tatar Periodicals/Audiovisuals Aurora Public Library 1 E. Benton Street Aurora, IL 60505 Phone: 630-264-4100 FAX: 630-896-3209 blt...@aurora.lib.il.us www.aurorapubliclibrary.org From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Jessica Rosner Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 10:53 AM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] DVD Lease plans I am somewhat amazed there are companies that do lease. Does not seem like a great way to make money given that new releases seem to have as one friend put it in another context, the shelf life of milk. I do find the concept somewhat offensive. I mean if acclaimed new novel or copy of WAR AND PEACE did not circulate would you just return them? I can understand for multiple copies of popular films but as a way of deciding what you actually keep it is kind of insane. Basically you would likely keep a copy of BATTLESHIP or TRANSFORMERS get "return" a copy of say A SEPARATION, LA STRADA or HOOP DREAMS if they were not circulating "enough". On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Tatar, Becky <blt...@aurora.lib.il.us<mailto:blt...@aurora.lib.il.us>> wrote: Hi, all, Sorry for any cross duplication. My supervisor asked me to think about doing a lease program for our DVD collection that would be more tied into collection development. We would order titles on lease, and after 6 months or so, if they weren't circulating much - to be determined - we would pull them and send them back. Has anyone done this? What's your experience with it? Right now, we lease extra DVD copies of high reserve titles - usually new feature releases, but some new television show seasons. When the reserves are finished, the lease copies are pulled and returned to the company. So this new plan would be different - and I'm thinking more work - constantly getting monthly updates on the titles to check the circ. Another issue is that there is no discount on these lease titles. But - we are facing major budget cuts across the board, and materials have to earn their keep. Thanks in advance. Becky Tatar Periodicals/Audiovisuals Aurora Public Library 1 E. Benton Street Aurora, IL 60505 Phone: 630-264-4100<tel:630-264-4100> FAX: 630-896-3209<tel:630-896-3209> blt...@aurora.lib.il.us<mailto:blt...@aurora.lib.il.us> www.aurorapubliclibrary.org<http://www.aurorapubliclibrary.org> 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment scrubbed and removed. HTML attachments are only available in MIME digests. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 21:37:28 +0000 From: "Tatar, Becky" <blt...@aurora.lib.il.us> Subject: Re: [Videolib] DVD Lease plans To: "'videolib@lists.berkeley.edu'" <videolib@lists.berkeley.edu> Message-ID: <5d59e4c8fdafb44c86b865b6a54fe9cf308bc...@aplexch1.aurorapubliclibrary.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" WOW - you have that many reserves on a title! You are larger than we are, but again, WOW! Becky Tatar Periodicals/Audiovisuals Aurora Public Library 1 E. Benton Street Aurora, IL 60505 Phone: 630-264-4100 FAX: 630-896-3209 blt...@aurora.lib.il.us www.aurorapubliclibrary.org -----Original Message----- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Jaeschke, Myles Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 12:01 PM To: 'videolib@lists.berkeley.edu' Subject: Re: [Videolib] DVD Lease plans Becky, I say why bother? These popular titles continue to have demand long after that initial "rush". Unless you are thinking that you want to get through your hold list of 300-400 or more VERY quickly by leasing 100+ copies. We buy 40-50 tops of these popular titles and our hold lists are usually completed within 2-3 months. Leasing DVDs has always seemed to me to be a waste of $$. Books--not so much--one a person reads a book they typically do not want to read it over and over. Not true with films and music. To me this is why it make more sense to lease books for popular titles but to buy films and music outright and let 'em die a "natural" death in the library. That's my 2 cents. Myles Jaeschke Tulsa City-County Library Media Collections -----Original Message----- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Tatar, Becky Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 9:39 AM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu; pub...@webjunction.org Subject: [Videolib] DVD Lease plans Hi, all, Sorry for any cross duplication. My supervisor asked me to think about doing a lease program for our DVD collection that would be more tied into collection development. We would order titles on lease, and after 6 months or so, if they weren't circulating much - to be determined - we would pull them and send them back. Has anyone done this? What's your experience with it? Right now, we lease extra DVD copies of high reserve titles - usually new feature releases, but some new television show seasons. When the reserves are finished, the lease copies are pulled and returned to the company. So this new plan would be different - and I'm thinking more work - constantly getting monthly updates on the titles to check the circ. Another issue is that there is no discount on these lease titles. But - we are facing major budget cuts across the board, and materials have to earn their keep. Thanks in advance. Becky Tatar Periodicals/Audiovisuals Aurora Public Library 1 E. Benton Street Aurora, IL 60505 Phone: 630-264-4100 FAX: 630-896-3209 blt...@aurora.lib.il.us www.aurorapubliclibrary.org 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. 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. End of videolib Digest, Vol 58, Issue 15 **************************************** 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.
