I, too, and very interested in this topi of conversation. Please post your thoughts and comments to the listserv.
Thanks! Jeanne Little -- Rod Library - Room 240 Resource Management-Collections Content Discovery Division University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, IA 50614-3675 319-273-7255 On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Meghann Matwichuk <mtw...@udel.edu> wrote: > Thanks for sharing this, Sarah. > > "The tapes might not disappear for a while, though. They still hold on in > some smaller video rental stores (RIP > <http://www.npr.org/2010/03/30/125331410/blockbuster-struggles-to-stay-in-movie-rental-game>), > thrift stores, home collections, schools > <http://www.avclub.com/article/even-yale-university-getting-vhs-collecting-216176>, > libraries, and among immigrants > <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/nyregion/for-some-new-york-immigrants-vhs-is-king-for-movie-rentals.html?_r=1>, > too. After all, some programs are still only available on VHS, and > converting the tapes to DVD takes time and effort." > > "Time and effort" -- big understatement, eh? At any rate, this goes a > long way towards making some of my past hesitation about considering VHS as > Section 108 Replacement candidates territory passé, and a good opportunity > for review. Would any of you be willing to share some of your procedures > for working with creating replacement copies for OOP VHS? Are you doing > this on a request-by-request basis, or going through VHS in your collection > methodically to do so? I know there are some big initiatives along these > lines out there (AU, Tisch, etc.). Curious to know how folks are working > with this issue, practically speaking (and with all due respect to > copyright law, of course). > > Happy Friday, > > -- > > Meghann Matwichuk, M.S. > Associate Librarian > Coordinator, Film & Video Collection > Morris Library, University of Delaware > 181 S. College Ave. > Newark, DE 19717(302) 831-1475https://library.udel.edu/filmandvideo > > > > On 7/21/2016 8:28 PM, Sarah E. McCleskey wrote: > > http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/07/21/486889433/so-long-vcr-we-hardly-knew-you-were-still-around > > > Sent from my iPad > 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. > > > > 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. > >
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.
