[Videolib] VHS weeding list
Jodie Congratulations on this arduous task. If you have a list of VHS tapes in your collection that your due diligence shows are not available for purchase on DVD, that would be extremely useful to me. I assume others would find it useful too. Section 108 of US Copyright law permits duplication of a (lost, damaged, stolen, deteriorating, or obsolete format) title if an unused copy is not available for purchase (at a reasonable price, after a reasonable search). Having a list of already searched titles would be very useful. I know that Chris Lewis maintains a wiki of titles not released on DVD, but I think these are mostly feature filmsŠ. deg farrelly, Media Librarian Arizona State University Libraries Hayden Library C1H1 P.O. Box 871006 Tempe, Arizona 85287-1006 Phone: 602.332.3103 --- http://tinyurl.com/AboutNMM To market, to market, to find some fresh filmŠ I'm attending the 2013 National Media Market, November 3-7 In Charleston, South Carolina. See you there? On 10/15/13 10:42 AM, videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu wrote: I just want to throw this out there, but if anyone is starting a VHS weeding project and needs help getting started, please contact me off list. I just completed a major weed of our entire VHS collection and acquiring DVD replacements for some of the VHS. We started with over 6,000 VHS tapes, weeded over half of the collection, and replaced a good percentage of what was leftover with DVDs. Pretty much the only VHS that are left are highly used titles that are not available on DVD. I would be more than happy to talk about the method behind my madness. :) Jodie ? Jodie L. Borgerding, M.L.S. 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] VHS weeding
Funny this should come up when I'm doing exactly this- the task of weeding the VHS collection. First I have a list generated in Call # order for the DVD, VHS and streaming formats. This list includes total uses since 2006 (when we migrated to Milennium/now Sierra) and also Last Use date. I work through the list and mark it, looking for VHS only that has had 0 use in 5 years. If we have VHS and DVD, I look at last use on the VHS. If it was recently, it may be because the DVD was added recently, or, the DVD was out when someone wanted the content. Our system does let us look at who the last user was: faculty or student - so that is a final check to see if an instructor is using the content. Unfortunately, the streaming providers we work with are unable to give us title-level stats on use when we license a collection. Individual titles from Films Media/Films on Demand can be verified, but that's the only source where we have added streaming content one at a time. The collections from Alexander St. and NFB are not providing title by title data- at least as far as I can determine. If anybody knows differently, I'd like to hear about it. Once the list is marked, I go to the shelves, and pull off the videos. I'm not comfortable delegating this, because there are decisions I may make, once I see the video in the subject area where it sits. The videos are then given to staff to mark as withdrawn. That's my process - and I only have an opportunity to do it when exams are over and all material is returned, which is right now in December, and again in intersession in May. Susan Susan Weber Media Librarian Library T 604.323.5533 F 604.323.5512 swe...@langara.bc.ca mailto:Susan Weber swe...@langara.bc.ca Langara. http://www.langara.bc.ca 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6 Please consider the environment before printing. CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately and delete this email from your system. On 19/12/2012 6:00 PM, Steinhoff, Cindy wrote: We weeded VHS starting about 2 years ago and made another pass through this past summer. Our criteria are almost exactly like Deg's. We also checked the last circulation date for each program and withdrew anything that hadn't circulated in 3 years. Cynthia Steinhoff Anne Arundel Community College Arnold, MD The information contained in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. It has been sent for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or any of its content, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. Thank you. -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Deg Farrelly Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 4:06 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: [Videolib] VHS weeding I am in the process of weeding VHS from our collection now. Mostly we are moving all VHS out of the building into a storage facility (another library) where they will be requestable. (About 9600 titles), but in the process we are withdrawing some titles: @400 VHS that have been in the collection AT LEAST 7 years that have never been borrowed. (I will look at these individually to make sure that there are no irreplaceable titles) @250 titles that we have in our Films on Demand subscription @200 titles in our purchased Filmakers Library Online collection A handful of additional titles from other companies that we have in streaming format on one platform or anotherŠ for example BBC Shakespeare plays Anything in VHS that we also have in DVD Duplicate VHS copies, if there is another VHS (or DVD) copy in the library collection. This is very broad, and actually very conservative, I think. -deg deg farrelly, Media Librarian Arizona State University Libraries Hayden Library C1H1 P.O. Box 871006 Tempe, Arizona 85287-1006 Phone: 602.332.3103 On 12/19/12 1:53 PM, videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu wrote: Debra et al, Can some of you share your VHS replacement criteria. Thanks, lorraine wochna Ohio U, Alden Library 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
Re: [Videolib] VHS weeding
Okay, good. :) Do you have any art you'd like me to attach to the Zinio post? Or should I just attach their logo? Cristella Bond Information Services Librarian Anderson Public Library 111 E. 12th Street Anderson, IN 46016 (765) 641-2456 cb...@andersonlibrary.net www.andersonlibrary.net [http://www.andersonlibrary.net/] -Original Message- From: Susan Weber swe...@langara.bc.ca To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:55:39 -0800 Subject: Re: [Videolib] VHS weeding Funny this should come up when I'm doing exactly this- the task of weeding the VHS collection. First I have a list generated in Call # order for the DVD, VHS and streaming formats. This list includes total uses since 2006 (when we migrated to Milennium/now Sierra) and also Last Use date. I work through the list and mark it, looking for VHS only that has had 0 use in 5 years. If we have VHS and DVD, I look at last use on the VHS. If it was recently, it may be because the DVD was added recently, or, the DVD was out when someone wanted the content. Our system does let us look at who the last user was: faculty or student - so that is a final check to see if an instructor is using the content. Unfortunately, the streaming providers we work with are unable to give us title-level stats on use when we license a collection. Individual titles from Films Media/Films on Demand can be verified, but that's the only source where we have added streaming content one at a time. The collections from Alexander St. and NFB are not providing title by title data- at least as far as I can determine. If anybody knows differently, I'd like to hear about it. Once the list is marked, I go to the shelves, and pull off the videos. I'm not comfortable delegating this, because there are decisions I may make, once I see the video in the subject area where it sits. The videos are then given to staff to mark as withdrawn. That's my process - and I only have an opportunity to do it when exams are over and all material is returned, which is right now in December, and again in intersession in May. Susan Susan Weber Media Librarian Library T 604.323.5533 F 604.323.5512 swe...@langara.bc.ca mailto:Susan Weber swe...@langara.bc.ca Langara. http://www.langara.bc.ca [http://www.langara.bc.ca/] 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6 Please consider the environment before printing. CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately and delete this email from your system. On 19/12/2012 6:00 PM, Steinhoff, Cindy wrote: We weeded VHS starting about 2 years ago and made another pass through this past summer. Our criteria are almost exactly like Deg's. We also checked the last circulation date for each program and withdrew anything that hadn't circulated in 3 years. Cynthia Steinhoff Anne Arundel Community College Arnold, MD The information contained in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. It has been sent for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or any of its content, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. Thank you. -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Deg Farrelly Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 4:06 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: [Videolib] VHS weeding I am in the process of weeding VHS from our collection now. Mostly we are moving all VHS out of the building into a storage facility (another library) where they will be requestable. (About 9600 titles), but in the process we are withdrawing some titles: @400 VHS that have been in the collection AT LEAST 7 years that have never been borrowed. (I will look at these individually to make sure that there are no irreplaceable titles) @250 titles that we have in our Films on Demand subscription @200 titles in our purchased Filmakers Library Online collection A handful of additional titles from other companies that we have in streaming format on one platform or anotherŠ for example BBC Shakespeare plays Anything in VHS that we also have in DVD Duplicate VHS copies, if there is another VHS (or DVD) copy in the library collection. This is very broad, and actually very conservative, I think. -deg deg farrelly, Media Librarian Arizona State University Libraries Hayden Library C1H1 P.O. Box 871006 Tempe, Arizona 85287-1006 Phone: 602.332.3103 On 12/19/12 1:53 PM, videolib-requ
Re: [Videolib] VHS weeding
Please disregard that last reply. I apologize. This is what happens when we do too much multitasking, I suppose. :) Cristella Bond Information Services Librarian Anderson Public Library 111 E. 12th Street Anderson, IN 46016 (765) 641-2456 cb...@andersonlibrary.net www.andersonlibrary.net [http://www.andersonlibrary.net/] -Original Message- From: Cristella Bond cb...@andersonlibrary.net To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:21:48 -0500 Subject: Re: [Videolib] VHS weeding Okay, good. :) Do you have any art you'd like me to attach to the Zinio post? Or should I just attach their logo? Cristella Bond Information Services Librarian Anderson Public Library 111 E. 12th Street Anderson, IN 46016 (765) 641-2456 cb...@andersonlibrary.net www.andersonlibrary.net [http://www.andersonlibrary.net/] -Original Message- From: Susan Weber swe...@langara.bc.ca To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:55:39 -0800 Subject: Re: [Videolib] VHS weeding Funny this should come up when I'm doing exactly this- the task of weeding the VHS collection. First I have a list generated in Call # order for the DVD, VHS and streaming formats. This list includes total uses since 2006 (when we migrated to Milennium/now Sierra) and also Last Use date. I work through the list and mark it, looking for VHS only that has had 0 use in 5 years. If we have VHS and DVD, I look at last use on the VHS. If it was recently, it may be because the DVD was added recently, or, the DVD was out when someone wanted the content. Our system does let us look at who the last user was: faculty or student - so that is a final check to see if an instructor is using the content. Unfortunately, the streaming providers we work with are unable to give us title-level stats on use when we license a collection. Individual titles from Films Media/Films on Demand can be verified, but that's the only source where we have added streaming content one at a time. The collections from Alexander St. and NFB are not providing title by title data- at least as far as I can determine. If anybody knows differently, I'd like to hear about it. Once the list is marked, I go to the shelves, and pull off the videos. I'm not comfortable delegating this, because there are decisions I may make, once I see the video in the subject area where it sits. The videos are then given to staff to mark as withdrawn. That's my process - and I only have an opportunity to do it when exams are over and all material is returned, which is right now in December, and again in intersession in May. Susan Susan Weber Media Librarian Library T 604.323.5533 F 604.323.5512 swe...@langara.bc.ca mailto:Susan Weber swe...@langara.bc.ca Langara. http://www.langara.bc.ca [http://www.langara.bc.ca/] 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6 Please consider the environment before printing. CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately and delete this email from your system. On 19/12/2012 6:00 PM, Steinhoff, Cindy wrote: We weeded VHS starting about 2 years ago and made another pass through this past summer. Our criteria are almost exactly like Deg's. We also checked the last circulation date for each program and withdrew anything that hadn't circulated in 3 years. Cynthia Steinhoff Anne Arundel Community College Arnold, MD The information contained in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. It has been sent for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or any of its content, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. Thank you. -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Deg Farrelly Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 4:06 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: [Videolib] VHS weeding I am in the process of weeding VHS from our collection now. Mostly we are moving all VHS out of the building into a storage facility (another library) where they will be requestable. (About 9600 titles), but in the process we are withdrawing some titles: @400 VHS that have been in the collection AT LEAST 7 years that have never been borrowed. (I will look at these individually to make sure that there are no irreplaceable titles) @250 titles that we have in our Films on Demand subscription @200 titles in our purchased Filmakers Library Online collection A handful of additional titles from other companies that we have in streaming
Re: [Videolib] VHS weeding
Deg (and others), Do you have qualms about getting rid of VHS titles that are in online streaming subscriptions - as they may drop out of the d/base ? or are these VHS where you also have DVD titles and therefore if the subscription drops the title you will still have a DVD copy? Rhonda -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Deg Farrelly Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 1:06 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: [Videolib] VHS weeding I am in the process of weeding VHS from our collection now. Mostly we are moving all VHS out of the building into a storage facility (another library) where they will be requestable. (About 9600 titles), but in the process we are withdrawing some titles: @400 VHS that have been in the collection AT LEAST 7 years that have never been borrowed. (I will look at these individually to make sure that there are no irreplaceable titles) @250 titles that we have in our Films on Demand subscription @200 titles in our purchased Filmakers Library Online collection A handful of additional titles from other companies that we have in streaming format on one platform or anotherŠ for example BBC Shakespeare plays Anything in VHS that we also have in DVD Duplicate VHS copies, if there is another VHS (or DVD) copy in the library collection. This is very broad, and actually very conservative, I think. -deg deg farrelly, Media Librarian Arizona State University Libraries Hayden Library C1H1 P.O. Box 871006 Tempe, Arizona 85287-1006 Phone: 602.332.3103 On 12/19/12 1:53 PM, videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu wrote: Debra et al, Can some of you share your VHS replacement criteria. Thanks, lorraine wochna Ohio U, Alden Library 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.
Re: [Videolib] VHS weeding
We're going to start a collection of BBC Shakespeare through Ambrose in streaming format after the winter break ends in January and we will withdraw any remaining VHS of those programs. But we'll keep anything we have in DVD. Some faculty are still apprehensive about using streaming video, despite the fact that we do workshops and, for the truly anxious, do one-on-one training complete with hand-holding. But these folks are usually willing to use a DVD, and some of them have stopped using VHS. We like it when they tell us that they prefer a different format, but that doesn't usually happen - we just see them no longer using the VHS version of a program. We're usually able to replace an aging VHS tape with the program on DVD or in streaming format, if it is available in those formats. We have withdrawn VHS and replaced with streaming in a number of cases, when it is clear that the VHS just isn't being used any longer. That's not standard procedure; rather it is a decision made title by title. We have also bought some programs as streaming that we don't have in either VHS or DVD. That decision, too, depends in large part on who is asking for the program and how comfortable they are with streaming. Money is a factor, too. We're more likely to purchase both DVD and streaming if the vendor provides a price break on the DVD with the purchase of streaming rights. Cynthia Steinhoff Anne Arundel Community College The information contained in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. It has been sent for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or any of its content, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. Thank you. -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Rosen, Rhonda Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 5:09 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] VHS weeding Deg (and others), Do you have qualms about getting rid of VHS titles that are in online streaming subscriptions - as they may drop out of the d/base ? or are these VHS where you also have DVD titles and therefore if the subscription drops the title you will still have a DVD copy? Rhonda -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Deg Farrelly Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 1:06 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: [Videolib] VHS weeding I am in the process of weeding VHS from our collection now. Mostly we are moving all VHS out of the building into a storage facility (another library) where they will be requestable. (About 9600 titles), but in the process we are withdrawing some titles: @400 VHS that have been in the collection AT LEAST 7 years that have never been borrowed. (I will look at these individually to make sure that there are no irreplaceable titles) @250 titles that we have in our Films on Demand subscription @200 titles in our purchased Filmakers Library Online collection A handful of additional titles from other companies that we have in streaming format on one platform or anotherŠ for example BBC Shakespeare plays Anything in VHS that we also have in DVD Duplicate VHS copies, if there is another VHS (or DVD) copy in the library collection. This is very broad, and actually very conservative, I think. -deg deg farrelly, Media Librarian Arizona State University Libraries Hayden Library C1H1 P.O. Box 871006 Tempe, Arizona 85287-1006 Phone: 602.332.3103 On 12/19/12 1:53 PM, videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu wrote: Debra et al, Can some of you share your VHS replacement criteria. Thanks, lorraine wochna Ohio U, Alden Library 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
Re: [Videolib] VHS weeding
Not just qualms, Rhonda, but it has happened that we thought we could get rid of the 16mm and VHS copies because we had something streamed. Our link checker finds the broken link when the video is removed, and lo and behold, the film has been removed. It doesn't happen very often, like maybe, twice a year - but it has happened. This is true even for e-books from a subscription. Suddenly a publisher decides to change their distributor or vendor, and poof, the content is gone. There isn't much you can do about it, unless you actually purchase the item and pay for the perpetual rights (at ten times the cost). If a faculty member is dependent on content, you may be better to get the DVD for them. Susan Susan Weber Media Librarian Library T 604.323.5533 F 604.323.5512 swe...@langara.bc.ca mailto:Susan Weber swe...@langara.bc.ca Langara. http://www.langara.bc.ca 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6 Please consider the environment before printing. CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately and delete this email from your system. On 20/12/2012 2:09 PM, Rosen, Rhonda wrote: Deg (and others), Do you have qualms about getting rid of VHS titles that are in online streaming subscriptions - as they may drop out of the d/base ? or are these VHS where you also have DVD titles and therefore if the subscription drops the title you will still have a DVD copy? Rhonda -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Deg Farrelly Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 1:06 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: [Videolib] VHS weeding I am in the process of weeding VHS from our collection now. Mostly we are moving all VHS out of the building into a storage facility (another library) where they will be requestable. (About 9600 titles), but in the process we are withdrawing some titles: @400 VHS that have been in the collection AT LEAST 7 years that have never been borrowed. (I will look at these individually to make sure that there are no irreplaceable titles) @250 titles that we have in our Films on Demand subscription @200 titles in our purchased Filmakers Library Online collection A handful of additional titles from other companies that we have in streaming format on one platform or anotherŠ for example BBC Shakespeare plays Anything in VHS that we also have in DVD Duplicate VHS copies, if there is another VHS (or DVD) copy in the library collection. This is very broad, and actually very conservative, I think. -deg deg farrelly, Media Librarian Arizona State University Libraries Hayden Library C1H1 P.O. Box 871006 Tempe, Arizona 85287-1006 Phone: 602.332.3103 On 12/19/12 1:53 PM, videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu wrote: Debra et al, Can some of you share your VHS replacement criteria. Thanks, lorraine wochna Ohio U, Alden Library 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.
[Videolib] VHS weeding
I am in the process of weeding VHS from our collection now. Mostly we are moving all VHS out of the building into a storage facility (another library) where they will be requestable. (About 9600 titles), but in the process we are withdrawing some titles: @400 VHS that have been in the collection AT LEAST 7 years that have never been borrowed. (I will look at these individually to make sure that there are no irreplaceable titles) @250 titles that we have in our Films on Demand subscription @200 titles in our purchased Filmakers Library Online collection A handful of additional titles from other companies that we have in streaming format on one platform or anotherŠ for example BBC Shakespeare plays Anything in VHS that we also have in DVD Duplicate VHS copies, if there is another VHS (or DVD) copy in the library collection. This is very broad, and actually very conservative, I think. -deg deg farrelly, Media Librarian Arizona State University Libraries Hayden Library C1H1 P.O. Box 871006 Tempe, Arizona 85287-1006 Phone: 602.332.3103 On 12/19/12 1:53 PM, videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu wrote: Debra et al, Can some of you share your VHS replacement criteria. Thanks, lorraine wochna Ohio U, Alden Library 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] VHS weeding
We weeded VHS starting about 2 years ago and made another pass through this past summer. Our criteria are almost exactly like Deg's. We also checked the last circulation date for each program and withdrew anything that hadn't circulated in 3 years. Cynthia Steinhoff Anne Arundel Community College Arnold, MD The information contained in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. It has been sent for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or any of its content, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. Thank you. -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Deg Farrelly Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 4:06 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: [Videolib] VHS weeding I am in the process of weeding VHS from our collection now. Mostly we are moving all VHS out of the building into a storage facility (another library) where they will be requestable. (About 9600 titles), but in the process we are withdrawing some titles: @400 VHS that have been in the collection AT LEAST 7 years that have never been borrowed. (I will look at these individually to make sure that there are no irreplaceable titles) @250 titles that we have in our Films on Demand subscription @200 titles in our purchased Filmakers Library Online collection A handful of additional titles from other companies that we have in streaming format on one platform or anotherŠ for example BBC Shakespeare plays Anything in VHS that we also have in DVD Duplicate VHS copies, if there is another VHS (or DVD) copy in the library collection. This is very broad, and actually very conservative, I think. -deg deg farrelly, Media Librarian Arizona State University Libraries Hayden Library C1H1 P.O. Box 871006 Tempe, Arizona 85287-1006 Phone: 602.332.3103 On 12/19/12 1:53 PM, videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu wrote: Debra et al, Can some of you share your VHS replacement criteria. Thanks, lorraine wochna Ohio U, Alden Library 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.
