Dear Jonathan, Very interesting questions. Just to help clarify. We have one portal so that we can get our statistics from one place. We also purchase in perpetuity/for the life of the film format so we don't have to worry about renewing for the most part. There are a few exceptions. And we expect to pay a reasonable price.
A circulation is a view in this category, though I can slice and dice it by minutes of viewing if I want. But what's to say when someone checks out a physical copy, do they watch the whole thing. We count circulations for physical copies when we do an analysis of use, and we don't know how much of the film they are watching. They could start it, stop it for a bit and then start it again. So I was counting circulations, no matter how long just like physical copies. Yes, we have more control over streaming statistics and I can break it down by length of time and what percentage of the collection is being used. I may just do that to see (15% or 10 minutes)? As far as circulation for 2013-2014, we did not have the budget to purchase streaming that year so we primarily purchased hard copy that was being requested. That is one factor in seeing the increase in hard copy circulation. This year I was able to purchase in-perpetuity more streaming titles that were being requested so I suspect I'll see another jump in streaming. This is a different medium so it will be interesting to do some further statistical analysis. I'm lucky in that I have one portal so I don't have to depend on how different distributors count views. I can see the length of time they are viewing and I can also determine whether they are viewing the whole film or just clips. And I can determine if they are a student, staff or faculty member by class. Thanks for the feedback. Jane ________________________________ From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] on behalf of Jonathan Miller [jmil...@icarusfilms.com] Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 4:20 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] Looking for annual data on video circulation in academic libraries Dear Jane How do you determine a streaming “circulation” ? is that like a view, and if so for how long a time (30 seconds, 2 minutes etc)? Also if I read your graph correctly, hard copy circulation since 2010 is basically flat, and in fact from 2013 to 2014 it went up, and more or less just as much as streaming went up? Best Jonathan From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Wochna, Lorraine Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 4:07 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] Looking for annual data on video circulation in academic libraries Thanks Jane and Chris, I am working on the same project at Ohio U in order to make my case for streaming services, along with providing enough data to show that we need a general fund for purchasing media either in streaming or DVDs. For us, I don’t think all subject librarians are aware of how much use our collection gets; so getting stats together will help me raise awareness and promote collections. I’m also trying to put together a ‘media team’ as we have no official ‘media librarian’ (I’m the ‘go to/cares about’ person and have not updated our collection policy in quite a while. Lots to gather, but these kinds of conversations are very useful to me, so thank you. Best, lorraine lorraine wochna Reference & Instruction librarian Alden Library, 2nd floor Ohio University Athens OH 45701 W 740-597-1238 From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu> [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Hutchison, Jane Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 3:20 PM To: 'videolib@lists.berkeley.edu' Subject: Re: [Videolib] Looking for annual data on video circulation in academic libraries You can see where our circulation is heading at William Paterson University. We have invested much in building our streaming titles and through a careful collection development plan, we have been purchasing individual titles that are requested or identified that support the curriculum. [cid:image001.png@01D06005.13F2B300] Regards, Jane Jane B. Hutchison Associate Director Instruction & Research Technology 300 Pompton Road Wayne, NJ 07470 (w)973-720-2980 (cell) 973-418-7727 From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu> [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Chris Lewis Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 3:10 PM To: Videolib Subject: [Videolib] Looking for annual data on video circulation in academic libraries I know the general trend is declining based on the growth of Amazon/Netflix/iTunes and YouTube but I'd like to get some numbers for comparison to our trend locally. If you are willing to share and prefer to do it privately I will reciprocate. -- Chris Lewis American University Library 202.885.3257
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