Alden Welcome the 21st century of media issues!
Does your library provide reserve services? Does Ohio University pay for permission (thru Copyright Clearance Center or publishers, etc.) to put materials on reserve? Why should media be any different in the service provided to faculty and students for curricular support. That said, Swank Digital Campus offers a very large collection of feature films through a licensing plan. Titles are limited to use within courses (Not general viewing), and I think prices are reasonable for the service provided. Additionally, under the Swank plan titles are not licensed for just one course, but for the institution. So if Professor X is teaching M.A.S.H. In a film studies course, it is also available for other classes to use as well. Another way to pay for this service is to charge students a lab fee for the course. A $10 or $20 lab fee from numerous students will pay for quite a few film licenses from Swank. Alternatively, of course the professor can say: here is what the course will cover. It is your responsibility to obtain the films to view. As someone else pointed out, there is NetflixŠ And also Amazon for streaming. But remember that most public libraries also provide video collections. My policy is to purchase for the collection a home video of any film that is being taught. There are quite a few online students who do have access to the physical library collection. I maintain a link to "Can I Stream It" which searches cross platform for titles to show where they are available to view, including the new site HitBliss. Here's the link: http://www.canistream.it/ Hope this helps. deg farrelly, Media Librarian Arizona State University Libraries Hayden Library C1H1 P.O. Box 871006 Tempe, Arizona 85287-1006 Phone: 602.332.3103 --- http://tinyurl.com/AboutNMM To market, to market, to find some fresh filmŠ I'm attending the 2013 National Media Market, November 3-7 In Charleston, South Carolina. See you there? On 7/18/13 11:36 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: >hello all, > >i've been bombing around some databases, internet, listservs looking for >some advice, but i'm not coming up with a hard and fast answer; so any >advice would be appreciated. > >This has to do with more and more faculty teaching an online course in >cinema studies. My faculty wants to show a list of films (which I'm >waiting for, but she indicates they are feature films). We own VAST and >MEF/Race Collection, and a few other collections, but none of these films >are what she is looking for. > >I believe she cannot upload our copies of the film to Blackboard as this >goes against copyright. We currently do not have our own streaming >server (that I know of). > >My thinking is that it will be cost prohibitive to purchase the rights to >show these films. >>From here, I would treat it like any online course --- if it was a >>literature class and they had to read 10 novels, it is their >>responsibility to obtain the 10 novels - however they wish to do it; but >>it is not my job to upload all ten novels. > >Can't the same logic hold true here? The students need to know that they >will need access to 10 particular films, and if they cannot access those >films, it might not be a good idea to take an online cinema class. > >Now all this is based on what we can offer at the moment, of course. > >I'm curious what kind of advice you would offer your faculty, teaching an >ONLINE CINEMA STUDIES class, and wanting about 10 feature films to be >available to the students. > >Thanks in advance for your thoughts, >lorraine wochna > >alden library >ohio university >athens OH 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.
