We're going to start a collection of BBC Shakespeare through Ambrose in streaming format after the winter break ends in January and we will withdraw any remaining VHS of those programs. But we'll keep anything we have in DVD. Some faculty are still apprehensive about using streaming video, despite the fact that we do workshops and, for the truly anxious, do one-on-one training complete with hand-holding. But these folks are usually willing to use a DVD, and some of them have stopped using VHS. We like it when they tell us that they prefer a different format, but that doesn't usually happen - we just see them no longer using the VHS version of a program. We're usually able to replace an aging VHS tape with the program on DVD or in streaming format, if it is available in those formats. We have withdrawn VHS and replaced with streaming in a number of cases, when it is clear that the VHS just isn't being used any longer. That's not standard procedure; rather it is a decision made title by title.
We have also bought some programs as streaming that we don't have in either VHS or DVD. That decision, too, depends in large part on who is asking for the program and how comfortable they are with streaming. Money is a factor, too. We're more likely to purchase both DVD and streaming if the vendor provides a price break on the DVD with the purchase of streaming rights. Cynthia Steinhoff Anne Arundel Community College The information contained in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. It has been sent for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or any of its content, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. Thank you. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rosen, Rhonda Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 5:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Videolib] VHS weeding Deg (and others), Do you have qualms about getting rid of VHS titles that are in online streaming subscriptions - as they may drop out of the d/base ? or are these VHS where you also have DVD titles and therefore if the subscription drops the title you will still have a DVD copy? Rhonda -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Deg Farrelly Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 1:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Videolib] VHS weeding I am in the process of weeding VHS from our collection now. Mostly we are moving all VHS out of the building into a storage facility (another library) where they will be requestable. (About 9600 titles), but in the process we are withdrawing some titles: @400 VHS that have been in the collection AT LEAST 7 years that have never been borrowed. (I will look at these individually to make sure that there are no irreplaceable titles) @250 titles that we have in our Films on Demand subscription @200 titles in our purchased Filmakers Library Online collection A handful of additional titles from other companies that we have in streaming format on one platform or anotherŠ for example BBC Shakespeare plays Anything in VHS that we also have in DVD Duplicate VHS copies, if there is another VHS (or DVD) copy in the library collection. This is very broad, and actually very conservative, I think. -deg deg farrelly, Media Librarian Arizona State University Libraries Hayden Library C1H1 P.O. Box 871006 Tempe, Arizona 85287-1006 Phone: 602.332.3103 On 12/19/12 1:53 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: >Debra et al, > >Can some of you share your VHS replacement criteria. >Thanks, > >lorraine wochna >Ohio U, Alden Library 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. 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.
