Hello all, Does anyone provide transcription services for students in your library? If so, would you be willing to answer some questions? Our disability services dept. has approached us inquiring how we could work together to improve this service to students on campus. Naturally, we are interested in doing whatever we can to help, but since this is new territory, I thought I would reach out VIDEOLIB to see what other libraries are doing. I had assumed that closed captioning (CC) was fairly standard on films these days, but suspect that I may be mistaken.
A few questions I have include: 1. Do you have collection development/ or acquisitions about selecting videos with closed captioning? Is there even a choice? I've never noticed this myself, but I have not spent a lot of time ordering films myself. 2. Do you transcribe films that do not have CC? 3. If so, do you do it upon request or do you do it in advance? Thank you in advance for any advice. Kelly _________________________________________________________ Kelly Leu Copyright & Scholarly Communications Librarian The University of Texas - Pan American [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> (956) 665-2623
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