Hi Well, again: I'd say that if your collection largely or exclusively comprises home video/mass marketed titles, it makes a whole lot of sense to go flat fee (call it 25 bucks and be done with it). If, however, you have a mix of high-priced indie titles and lower priced titles, it doesn't really make sense to let miscreants off the hook for losing a $350 title by charging them 25 bucks (or, if you want to be more paranoid about it, think about it this way: 25 bucks is a pretty cheap price to pay for adding a $350 title to your personal DVD library). We always found that charging full replacement costs was an amazingly effective deterrent...when the $400 bill hit the mail, the stuff almost always mysteriously came back.
Gary > Gary, > > Those are exactly the questions we're working through. And it's actually > book replacement that's driving this so I'm trying to figure out what > makes the most sense for videos. > > As for why, to reduce the workload on staff so they don't have to look up > each individual title. > > Cheers, > > Matt > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 10:52 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Videolib] Video replacement fees? > > hi > > why flat? Maybe for home video, but you gonna charge 25 bucks to replace > a $350 indie doc? And remember: replacement requires reprocessing > (re-marking, casing, etc.) Do you charge flat fees for book > replacements? > > Gary H. > > > > >> Hi All, >> >> Our library is thinking about going to a flat fee for replacement fees >> for lost videos but we're not sure if we should do that, and if we did >> what that fee would be. When your patrons lose videos, do you have a >> standard replacement fee for those or do you look up what the going >> rate is title by title? And if you wouldn't mind, could you share >> (off-list if >> necessary) what your replacement fee is? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Matt >> >> ______________________________ >> Matt Ball >> Media and Collections Librarian >> Clemons Library >> University of Virginia >> [email protected] >> 434-924-3812 >> 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 > [email protected] > > “Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.” > --Groucho Marx > > > 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. > Gary Handman [email protected] “Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.” --Groucho Marx 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.
