Thank you all for your input, helping to clarify my thinking. In this
case, the screening is *in* a classroom. I don't know whether it's the
scheduled class time, but an email invited the community to the class
screening (free of charge). So it's a fuzzy area to me, where things are
starting to fall apart. I will go with Eileen's approach.
Happy Tuesday.
Debbie Benrubi
***************
Technical Services Librarian
University of San Francisco
Gleeson Library|Geschke Center
2130 Fulton St.
San Francisco, CA 94117
ph. 415.422.5672
fax 415.422.2233
On 2/17/2014 12:39 PM, Randal Baier wrote:
I usually leave that alone. It's up to the faculty member to follow
these limitations also. In general, if a few people come to a class,
during the published class time, I don't consider that much of an
issue. They are probably tangentially related, although not
technically enrolled.
If someone breaks out popcorn, well, has the threshold been
compromised? Does the center hold? I'd say the center still holds.
What if they add butter? Still, it's within the field of the mutual
co-prosperity sphere.
Next level, is it out of the classroom, or at another time, are there
flyers? Have they added a public address system and a campus tuk-tuk
driving around that announces "Documentary on Body Piercing.
WGSTLBRTWQ Dept. 5pm. Discussion at 11." The centrifugal awareness
starts to intervene, things are beginning to fall apart. Hmm, maybe
it's time for a little hint of P(PR).
And finally -- "Hey we found this video for $19.95 on Amazon even
though Icarus is selling it for $500. Let's do a campus special
showing and get the auditorium!" Ok, at this point the atom has been
split.
You know, Shelley Berman used to do a routine related to this, albeit
in 50s-style irony, and on a 33 1/3 rpm LP to boot, about a first kiss
on a first date.
<< Father's advice to his daughter on a first date. (apologies to
Shelley Berman) >>
"OK, it's your first date, and he's gonna bring you to the door,
and your gonna wonder ....
The first kiss, that's his business, ....
The second kiss, that's your business, ....
The third kiss (dad looking through the curtains) ..... that's MY
BUSINESS!! ......"
hahahahahhahhaa .... now, go out and get your quota.
==============
Randal Baier
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197
(734) 487-2520 <callto:734%29%20487-2520>
rba...@emich.edu
tweets @rbaier -- skypes @ randalbaier
"Joy was his song, and joy so pure, A heart of star by him could
steer." -- e.e. cummings
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*From: *benr...@usfca.edu
*To: *videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
*Sent: *Monday, February 17, 2014 3:13:03 PM
*Subject: *[Videolib] Question for academic librarians re DVD screenings
Hi
I'm interested in what, if anything, other academic librarians do if
they get wind of a screening of non-PPR dvds that they acquired at the
request of a professor -- screenings which are for class curricular
use but to which the campus community is also invited (though it's
very unlikely that many from outside the class will show up). Do you
play cop? Say nothing? Send the professor a note after the fact?
Something else?
Thanks for your thoughts.
Debbie Benrubi
University of San Francisco
Gleeson Library
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