Re: [Videolib] Academic library video/DVD loan policies

[Bergman, Barbara J]

Tim -
ILL of video is kind of my soapbox.  We've benefitted far more than we've been 
inconvenienced by opening up video lending.


1.  If isn't not on reserve or booking for a screening, it's eligible for 
lending to university community, community, or to other libraries who lend 
videos.  (Excluding videos such as counseling titles that having lending 
restricts via licenses).

2.  We lend reciprocally. If your library's policy is to not ILL videos, we 
will not lend videos to you.  Resource sharing is about fairness.

3.  Cost shouldn't be the only reason to not lend.  None of us can afford 
to buy everything. Evaluate requests for out-of-print materials on a 
title-by-title basis and/or based on the requesting library.  ILL guidelines 
are that if something happens once an item leaves your library, the borrowing 
library pays (i.e. worry about what your own patrons are borrowing, not what 
you're lending).


See article in the Library Trends AV issue. Feel free to email me directly for 
more info.

Barb Bergman | Media Services  Interlibrary Loan Librarian | Minnesota State 
University, Mankato | (507) 389-5945 | barbara.berg...@mnsu.edu

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Re: [Videolib] Academic library video/DVD loan policies

[McKenzie, Rue]

Our DVD/VHS collection circulates to USF faculty, students, and staff for 7 
days.   This includes all USF campuses (other campus loans are sometimes 
handled via the ILL system).  There are titles which remain on a permanent 
in-house reserve status due to purchasing agreement stipulations, extremely 
heavy use/lack of replacement availability, and, in some cases, replacement 
costs.

One of the main reasons we've never added a routine ILL process is that many of 
our materials (a wide range that is pretty impossible to anticipate) are 
scheduled for specific class time use throughout the semester.  ILL creates an 
additional timeframe consideration to provide guaranteed viewing dates/times, 
and we have never been comfortable with the prospect of balancing this.


Rue McKenzie
Coordinator of Media Collections
Academic Resources
University of South Florida Library
4202 Fowler Ave., LIB122
Tampa, FL  33620

813-974-6342 / rmcken...@usf.edu




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Subject: [Videolib] Academic library video/DVD loan policies

I'm curious to know about other academic library outside loan policies on their 
video/DVD collections. Is your entire collection open for ILL and consortium 
loans? At Evergreen we belong to the Orbis-Cascade Alliance, a consortium of 36 
academic libraries in Oregon and Washington State. Our video/DVD collection is 
fairly specialized, driven mainly by faculty requests as well as items 
purchased by college programs which are then added to the Library's collection. 
Many of our materials are fairly expensive or would be difficult or impossible 
to replace and as such the Head of our Sound and Image Library has resisted 
opening the entire collection to outside loan. At present the collection 
circulates to faculty and staff while a relatively small portion of our 
videos/DVDs are available for interlibrary loan.

Thanks for any input, sharing of experiences, etc.!

Tim Markus
Head of Cataloging
The Evergreen State College Library
Olympia, WA  98505
(360) 867-6124
mark...@evergreen.edumailto:mark...@evergreen.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.