[Videolib] What is in a name?!
This is a shout out to all of you video/media/audiovisual librarians... Could you please tell me what you call your library or area of the library or college? The background is this - since the College's existence in 1964, we have been called the Audiovisual or AV Library. I am the Audiovisual Librarian and we have an Audiovisual Administrative Assistant. However, we have just had a renovation of the entire library, and the Audiovisual Library has been left off of the new signage - we are not in directories, and there are no individual signs. No one knows where we are now that we have moved location!! The reason seems to be that the administrators of the College think that Audiovisual is a dated term. They would prefer something sexy, evidently, but they don't know what. Actually, I think that the administration would be happiest if we went entirely to streaming!! We in the library still have a number of video tapes, cds, and many dvds which are heavily used by faculty and students. And we have viewing equipment. One proposal is Media Services - tho that has a bad connotation here on campus, as that used to be the department creating media productions and delivering equipment on campus. It had a poor reputation. Multimedia Services is taken by our IT department. I personally would like to keep Audiovisual Library but I don't think that our Library Director is going to go with that. Could you please tell me what you are called, or if you have any ideas for sexy, forward-thinking titles? Thanks so much!! Mary Lou Neighbour AV Librarian/Assistant Professor Montgomery County Community College 340 DeKalb Pike Blue Bell, PA 19422 mneig...@mc3.edu 215-619-7355 Montgomery County Community College is proud to be designated as an Achieving the Dream Leader College for its commitment to student access and success. 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] Thanks for Name Change Suggestions!
As this Friday draws to a close, I want to thank the many people who responded to my plea! You have given our AV staff many possibilities to consider. This is the greatest list!! Thank you all. ML Mary Lou Neighbour AV Librarian/Assistant Professor Montgomery County Community College 340 DeKalb Pike Blue Bell, PA 19422 mneig...@mc3.edu 215-619-7355 Montgomery County Community College is proud to be designated as an Achieving the Dream Leader College for its commitment to student access and success. 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] The Story of Film
I am appealing to the collective wisdom of the list. Does anyone know if The Story of Film: an Odyssey by Mark Cousins has been made available for sale in this country? This history of film was serialized on Channel 4 in the UK and dvds (region 2) were released in England in April of this year. There is also a companion book of the same title released in the UK in 2004 and made available in this country in 2011. The film was written up in the NYT -See this link http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/movies/the-story-of-film-an-odyssey-by-mark-cousins-at-moma.html I have checked OCLC to find that only region 2 dvds have been released in the UK. Faculty are asking if we can purchase the film. Does anyone have any information on a potential release here? Any help would be much appreciated! Mary Lou Neighbour AV Librarian/Assistant Professor Montgomery County Community College 340 DeKalb Pike Blue Bell, PA 19422 mneig...@mc3.edu 215-619-7355 Montgomery County Community College is proud to be designated as an Achieving the Dream Leader College for its commitment to student access and success. 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] The Story of Film
Thank you, thank you to all who have helped with my query!! My faculty will be so very pleased with the news!! Mary Lou Neighbour AV Librarian/Assistant Professor Montgomery County Community College 340 DeKalb Pike Blue Bell, PA 19422 mneig...@mc3.edu 215-619-7355 Montgomery County Community College is proud to be designated as an Achieving the Dream Leader College for its commitment to student access and success. 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.
Re: [Videolib] Faculty's personally owned copies and digitization
Hi, Judy. Thank you for clarifying what I was actually asking! I obviously did not give enough details for everyone to understand me!! I am aware of what needs to be done to have faculty create online courses legally. I really just wanted to see if we could use the faculty's legally attained dvd for the purposes of digitization after we had received permission to digitize it on a password-protected, authenticated course management system. I think that should the situation arise again, I will include your idea of asking if we can use the faculty's copy when directly dealing with the rights holder. For virtually everything else this professor wants to use, we have or are getting actual copies for the collection. As it is, just before you wrote, I heard from the producer asking me if the AV Library had a copy of the documentary. She offered to sell me one! And so, as I said on the list yesterday, we are purchasing a copy for the library to be used in the digitization. And no, Gary, I never said that the documentary was not generally available! I can get it from one of our regular vendors as well as from the producer. I was just trying to save a few dollars, which I can't in this case!! ML Mary Lou Neighbour AV Librarian/Assistant Professor Montgomery County Community College 340 DeKalb Pike Blue Bell, PA 19422 mneig...@mc3.edu 215-619-7355 From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Shoaf,Judith P Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:10 AM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] Faculty's personally owned copies and digitization I wanted to reply to this because nobody seems to be paying attention to what Mary Lou actually says: I am appealing to the collective wisdom of the list! I am helping a dance professor put together an online course on the history of dance. She is using multiple library resources - some will be entire programs with permissions, some will be entire programs with licensing fees, and others will be fair use excerpts. So she is saying that there are 3 categories of items to be used: Entire programs WITH PERMISSIONS Entire programs WITH LICENSING FEES Fair use EXCERPTS. This has nothing to do with streaming an entire program without permissions/licensing. Mary Lou seems to have a clear grasp of the difference between a legal and an illegal copy. The question is whether she can use a lawfully acquired (i.e. not taped off TV) copy that does not belong to the library as the basis of digital materials for educational purposes. My thought is this: she needs to specify when she asks for the permissions and licensing fees for the entire programs whether the library can use a privately-purchased copy as the basis for the digital version. In the case of the items she describes, where she has permission, surely she could ask the same source for permission to use the instructor's copy. But with respect to the clips, which would be governed by fair use, surely the Rulemaking of 2009, which Gary was so instrumental in obtaining, would be a useful guide: Motion pictures on DVDs that are lawfully made and acquired and that are protected by the Content Scrambling System when circumvention is accomplished solely in order to accomplish the incorporation of short portions of motion pictures into new works for the purpose of criticism or comment, and where the person engaging in circumvention believes and has reasonable grounds for believing that circumvention is necessary to fulfill the purpose of the use in the following instances: (i) Educational uses by college and university professors and by college and university film and media studies students; (2 other situations) http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2010/ By way of contrast with the rulemaking of 2006, where it was specified that clips can be made only from Audiovisual works included in the educational library of a college or university's film or media studies department, this pronouncement does not specify that the work has to belong to the educational institution. So it seems to me that an instructor's personal copy would be an appropriate source for short portions. Judy Shoaf Montgomery County Community College is proud to be designated as an Achieving the Dream Leader College for its commitment to student access and success. 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] Faculty's personally owned copies and digitization
I am appealing to the collective wisdom of the list! I am helping a dance professor put together an online course on the history of dance. She is using multiple library resources - some will be entire programs with permissions, some will be entire programs with licensing fees, and others will be fair use excerpts. My question to you all: is there any problem with digitizing vhs material that is the personal property of the faculty member and no longer available for us to purchase for the AV Library? They are legally acquired copies of the professor, and I would apply the same standards of trying to trace rights that I have done for the library material. We would not be keeping copies in the AV Library. The digitizations are strictly for the online course the professor is teaching. I don't think that there is a problem, but I thought that I would check it out with my colleague experts!! Mary Lou Neighbour AV Librarian/Assistant Professor Montgomery County Community College 340 DeKalb Pike Blue Bell, PA 19422 mneig...@mc3.edu 215-619-7355 Montgomery County Community College is proud to be designated as an Achieving the Dream Leader College for its commitment to student access and success. 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.
Re: [Videolib] Faculty's personally owned copies and digitization
Hi, Gary. Thanks so much for your answer to my question. Actually, we have been given the right to digitize the entire dance program by the producer. Our faculty member actually worked on the documentary, and thus has her legally acquired copy. However, I can see that we should purchase the documentary for the AV Library before proceeding with the digitization - which will only be accessible to students in the online dance history classes. Boy, Gary, are we going to miss you and your wisdom on this listserv!!! You must be counting down the days...! ML -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of ghand...@library.berkeley.edu Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 11:18 AM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] Faculty's personally owned copies and digitization Hey Mary Lou Well, whether there's a problem or not depends on how wild and wooly your institution is in interpreting fair use. Section 108 (which makes allowances for duplicating legally acquired, physically at-risk items no longer available for purchase at fair market prices)allows use of duplicated materials in the library building... More liberal interpretations of this MIGHT allow for use of such materials in a classroom... Streaming for access of 108-duplicated materials might (MIGHT) hold up if access were limited to use within the library physical plant...access more widely (e.g. off campus by students in a course)...well, that's pushing things pretty hard. Our lawyer for the Mellon project I'm involved in is a pretty liberal guy (at least, for a lawyer)doesn't think it'd fly. The 108 Study Group (which was charged with looking at that section of the copyright law and making recommendations)didn't deal with online delivery of 108-eligible material. Then there's the whole UCLA, how-and-what-kinda-use-is-fair-use thing... If it were me, I wouldn't. Clips, maybe. Whole works, too risky. Gary I am appealing to the collective wisdom of the list! I am helping a dance professor put together an online course on the history of dance. She is using multiple library resources - some will be entire programs with permissions, some will be entire programs with licensing fees, and others will be fair use excerpts. My question to you all: is there any problem with digitizing vhs material that is the personal property of the faculty member and no longer available for us to purchase for the AV Library? They are legally acquired copies of the professor, and I would apply the same standards of trying to trace rights that I have done for the library material. We would not be keeping copies in the AV Library. The digitizations are strictly for the online course the professor is teaching. I don't think that there is a problem, but I thought that I would check it out with my colleague experts!! Mary Lou Neighbour AV Librarian/Assistant Professor Montgomery County Community College 340 DeKalb Pike Blue Bell, PA 19422 mneig...@mc3.edu 215-619-7355 Montgomery County Community College is proud to be designated as an Achieving the Dream Leader College for its commitment to student access and success. 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. Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library UC Berkeley 510-643-8566 ghand...@library.berkeley.edu http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself. --Francois Truffaut 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. Montgomery County Community College is proud to be designated as an Achieving the Dream Leader College for its commitment to student access and success. 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
Re: [Videolib] Films On Demand Statistics
Our FOD statistics are down dramatically also. But on our campus the FOD service has not been working well all semester - since the enhancements made to the service in August. Our faculty have been having terrible trouble with making the programs stream - in the classroom and from home. The programs are hanging and halting play. Many of our faculty have given up trying to use the service and are coming into AV to borrow dvds. Our IT department is working on the problem on our campus and will be having a conference call with FOD tech staff. For those of you who have experienced a drop in statistics, are you sure that the streaming has actually been working for your faculty? ML Mary Lou Neighbour AV Librarian/Assistant Professor Montgomery County Community College 340 DeKalb Pike Blue Bell, PA 19422 mneig...@mc3.edu 215-619-7355 -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Chris Lewis Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 10:32 AM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] Films On Demand Statistics Just looking at the most recent month, our usage data is off about 70% from the same period last year so there appears to be a possible change in how usage is being counted. If anything I'd expect growth from last year. There are definitely more classes using it this year. On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Woolard, David W. woola...@erau.edu wrote: Hello, For those libraries that subscribe to or own Films On Demand titles have any of you noticed a significant decline in your usage statistics over the last few months?Our monthly statistics took a huge drop in August, decreasing 88% from the previous month of July, and have continued to drop steadily. Prior to August, our usage statistics have always been stable with slight increases compared to the previous year so this quite an anomaly for us. I’m really baffled by this but would love to know if anyone else has experienced a similar situation with their FOD titles. Thanks, David David Woolard Worldwide Media / Reference Librarian Hunt Library Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University 600 S. Clyde Morris Blvd. Daytona Beach, FL 32114-3900 Tel: 386-226-6101 | Fax: 386-226-6368 woola...@erau.edu | library.erau.edu 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. -- Chris Lewis Media Librarian American University Library 202.885.3257 For latest Media Services News: Blog: http://aulibmedia.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/American-University-Library-Media-Services/132559226823103 Twitter: http://twitter.com/aulibmedia and checkout our New Media Center promo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87N5wrcTHqc Please think twice before printing this e-mail. 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. Montgomery County Community College is proud to be designated as an Achieving the Dream Leader College for its commitment to student access and success. 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] Films on Demand Redux
Thank you to everyone who replied to my posting yesterday about Films on Demand's halting and erratic delivery. I appreciated the input. A good result I had from the listserv postings was from the FOD tech staff member I spoke with yesterday. He saw my post on Videolib and called today. Even though I told him of the halting and erratic running of the system on the phone yesterday, he did not share with me then what he shared today. They are having problems at FOD which could be causing all of what we have been experiencing!!! He told me that they have been troubleshooting the halting and problems of buffering for a week and a half. That they had received complaints prior to that and had dealt with them on a case by case basis. But now they are totally focusing on the problem as it seems more widespread. As of 7:50 last night, they switched to a back-up server, hoping that would solve the problems for now. I am to let him know of any other complaints and the time and day they were experienced. I let him know about our philosophy professor who could not get the service to work yesterday, and told me today that he is about to re-plan his courses which feature heavy dependence on FOD. When I asked the tech staff how much longer the service would be interrupted, his answer was hopefully it will be fixed in another week. When I asked about a proxy server slowing the service, he said that it absolutely would. A log-in and password would work better for streaming. When I told him that the service still works improperly when the log-in and password has been used in the past 5 weeks, he said that it could have been the problem with their server. He still maintained, however, that many larger universities use a proxy server, even though he said that proxies were never meant to carry videostreaming. The correct script to be used is: T Films on Demand U http://digital.films.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?aid= (whatever you need to put in there for your institution) DJ films.com H digital.films.com Yesterday, the tech staff member did send me information to optimize streaming from FOD. Should you want to receive that or report any other problems you are having with Films on Demand, make note of the day and time and please call Elliot at 800-257-5126 X5760. And I hope, Elliot, that you will be reading this and correct me if I have included any inaccuracies. Mary Lou Neighbour AV Librarian/Assistant Professor Montgomery County Community College 340 DeKalb Pike Blue Bell, PA 19422 mneig...@mc3.edu 215-619-7355 Montgomery County Community College is proud to be designated as an Achieving the Dream Leader College for its commitment to student access and success. 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] Music Appreciation DVDs
I am appealing to the wisdom of the list. A music faculty member wants recent dvds on the various eras of classical music: Middle Ages Renaissance Baroque Classical Romantic 20th Century He would like something visually stimulating and attention-grabbing. We have in our collection: Art and Music as Reflections of Time (VHS) 1986, originally 1974, which has parts on all of the eras Teaching Company's Music Appreciation series of lectures (VHS) 1993 Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts (DVD) Various VHS and DVD productions on individual composers What the faculty member would like are interesting, dynamic presentations on all of the eras. On OCLC, I found a Films for Humanities series, The CLEARVUE/eav Art Music Series - 8 parts for $799.60. It is not available on Films on Demand, which we purchase yearly. Even though the description calls the series visually dynamic, all I saw in some of the various part previews was a talking head. I have checked a number of our regular vendors, and have found nothing that fits the bill. Do any of you wise librarians have any suggestions??? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Mary Lou Neighbour AV Librarian/Assistant Professor Montgomery County Community College 340 DeKalb Pike Blue Bell, PA 19422 mneig...@mc3.edu 215-619-7355 Montgomery County Community College is proud to be the #1 ranked technology-savvy community college in the nation, as determined by the Center for Digital Education and Converge magazine. 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.
