Hi Brooke, You might want to hold onto a few of those VHS tapes in case you want some for disaster preparedness training. Our disaster preparedness training exercises at Mason Libraries includes as many different media formats as we can obtain.
Regards, Laura Laura Jenemann Film Studies/Media Services Librarian Johnson Center Library George Mason University 4400 University Drive MS 1A6 Fairfax VA, 22030 Phone: 703-993-7593 Email: [email protected] From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Laura Baker Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 5:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Videolib] Recycling or Discarding VHS We were able to donate many VHS tapes to our local Goodwill stores. You might give them and similar resell stores a call to see what subjects they accept. Laura On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Duffy, Brooke <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hello All, I recently stepped in as media librarian at Fairfield University and one of the big items at the top of the to-do list is to weed and discard the VHS collection. I have been researching options for recycling VHS and have not come up with too much. These are the two places I've located which recycle VHS: GreenDisk<http://www.greendisk.com/> (recycling service, we'd have to pay for the service AND the shipping) ACT (Alternative Community Training) Services<http://www.actservices.org/donations/how-to-donate> (accepts donations of VHS, but still costly because we'd have to ship it all to Missouri) Does anyone know of other options? I did check the Videolib archives, but the most recent posts I could find were from 2009. I also welcome any general advice on recycling or discarding hundreds of VHS! Thanks and Happy New Year, Brooke Duffy Interim Reference & Media Librarian DiMenna-Nyselius Library Fairfield University 1073 North Benson Road Fairfield, CT 06824 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> (203)254-4000 x4206<tel:%28203%29254-4000%20x4206> 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. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Laura Baker Librarian -- Digital Research and Learning Abilene Christian University Library 221 Brown Library / ACU Box 29208 Abilene, TX 79699-9208 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> phone: (325) 674-2477 fax: (325) 674-2202 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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.
