Hi Heidi, We originally did not circulate any visual media materials but a few years back we decided to open our VHS collection to both out of the library checkout to students and checkout via ILL and Link+.
Our VHS collection is not getting any younger and want to get as much out of it before we have to start retiring titles. We've checked out quite a few tapes the past several years and there have been no problems! Oddly, the titles that never get any use here at our campus are the ones that get checked out the most via ILL! Even if they were damaged I doubt there would be any tears shed...although I'm sure fines would be issued if necessary! We do not circulate our DVD collection as the majority of the titles are in constant use by our professors and need to be available here. I also have around twenty VHS titles that are considered "restricted," meaning they need to be on hand for use by our professors and not out of the county on inter library loan (we also do not check these VHS titles out of the library to students.) So, yes, we definitely circulate VHS tapes via ILL and have had good luck with that practice--and have even gotten some mileage out of tapes we would otherwise have weeded long ago! Best of luck! Chris On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Heidi Busch <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a question...do your libraries circulate VHS tapes through > Inter-Library Loan? > > Thanks, > Heidi > > Heidi S. Busch > Media and Catalog Librarian > Unviersity of Tennessee at Martin > > 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.
