Re: [Videolib] quality check?
We check every DVD when it arrives, before it is cataloged. The policy started when it used to take a long time to get AV cataloged - not a problem now, but still good to find problems immediately. We don't find a huge number of problems, but it's bad PR if prof checks out a new DVD and discovers that it doesn't work in the classroom. Yes, malfunctions happen regardless, but awkward when they know it's a new purchase... Although I feel that we find enough problems to justify the process, I know that more time is spent on it than really necessary by a longtime staff member. In the future, I anticipate making it a student task where it's a quick check of a chapter or two. If in a pinch, we would probably only check the expensive titles. It's sadly possible that they might not get checked out for awhile, making it hard to determine if there was defect or if damage occurred later, and therefore a large loss if a problem is found later. Barb Bergman | Media Services Interlibrary Loan Librarian | Minnesota State University, Mankato | (507) 389-5945 | barbara.berg...@mnsu.edu From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Rosen, Rhonda J. Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 6:32 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: [Videolib] quality check? Do you guys quality check every dvd that comes into your collection? We are finding that this is becoming a burden...we used to use students to check, but with less and less work study Hours being available, we are needing students at the counter and not watching videos... Is it worth it? Rhonda Rhonda Rosen| Head, Media Access Services William H. Hannon Library | Loyola Marymount University One LMU Drive, MS 8200 | Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659 rhonda.ro...@lmu.edu|mailto:rhonda.ro...@lmu.edu| 310/338-4584| http://library.lmu.eduhttp://library.lmu.edu/ You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians. --Monty Python 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] quality check? (Meghann Matwichuk-Rhonda Rosen
Thanks to all! Rhonda -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of nahum laufer Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 10:02 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] quality check? (Meghann Matwichuk-Rhonda Rosen Hi Rhonda, Meghann and other Media librarians I want to give some of my experience with DVDs, 1) DVDs are tricky pieces of metal, they work on one device and behave badly on another, the following tale will explain : In a public screening in JCC Utopia in Brooklyn towards the end (50 min) of a 70 minute screening of Rafting to Bombay the DVD stopped and the operator could not run it to the end, he had a another DVD it had the same problem , he checked both on his own home DVD they had this problem, he sent them back to me, we checked them, both worked perfectly. As a client is always correct we compensated the JCC . My conclusion and experience is that the same DVD works on one device and not on another, but usually computers read them without a problem . 2) another problem is scratches on the DVD that occur en-route by post, as the postal services squeeze the packets, the plastic casing (book size 19 X13 cms) tend to crack , the bubble sheeted envelopes don't give enough protection so now I use ordinary recycled paper envelopes and pad the DVD with carton cut out of discarded cartons, and put the DVD into a plastic sleeve that goes into the bigger book size casing, giving double protection, I believe I have solved this problem. 3) I'm distributing a French film Murder of a Hatmaker I received from the producer Multi-zone DVDs but they didn't work on NTSC players in USA , I had to make NTSC copies and replace the ones I already distributed in America. I hope my experience helps in deciding if to check or not DVDs Cheers Nahum Laufer http://onedayafterpeace.com/index.php http://docsforeducation.com/ Sales Docs for Education Erez Laufer Films Holland st 10 Afulla 18371 Israel videolib@lists.berkeley.edu -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 10:52 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: videolib Digest, Vol 56, Issue 4 Send videolib mailing list submissions to videolib@lists.berkeley.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/video...@lists.berkeley.ed u or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu You can reach the person managing the list at videolib-ow...@lists.berkeley.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of videolib digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: quality check? (Meghann Matwichuk) 2 -- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 11:36:06 -0400 From: Meghann Matwichuk mtw...@udel.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] quality check? To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Message-ID: 4ff31166.6020...@udel.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hi Rhonda, We do have our students scan most material (standard DVDs and Blurays, skipping through chapters, just to make sure there are no obvious problems with operability). There aren't many problems, but this doesn't take much time. We have any DVD-Rs or very expensive films watched from start to finish. We do turn up problems in some DVD-Rs, especially from a few key vendors, so we feel this is very important even though it takes some time. We don't want a problem discovered after the film has been added to the collection and is being used in a class. Best, * Meghann Matwichuk, M.S. Associate Librarian Film and Video Collection Department Morris Library, University of Delaware 181 S. College Ave. Newark, DE 19717 (302) 831-1475 http://www.lib.udel.edu/filmandvideo On 7/2/2012 7:31 PM, Rosen, Rhonda J. wrote: Do you guys quality check every dvd that comes into your collection? We are finding that this is becoming a burden...we used to use students to check, but with less and less work study Hours being available, we are needing students at the counter and not watching videos... Is it worth it? Rhonda Rhonda Rosen| Head, Media Access Services William H. Hannon Library | Loyola Marymount University One LMU Drive, MS 8200 | Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659 rhonda.ro...@lmu.edu| 310/338-4584| http://library.lmu.edu http://library.lmu.edu/ You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians. *--Monty Python* VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic
Re: [Videolib] quality check?
Hi Rhonda, We do have our students scan most material (standard DVDs and Blurays, skipping through chapters, just to make sure there are no obvious problems with operability). There aren't many problems, but this doesn't take much time. We have any DVD-Rs or very expensive films watched from start to finish. We do turn up problems in some DVD-Rs, especially from a few key vendors, so we feel this is very important even though it takes some time. We don't want a problem discovered after the film has been added to the collection and is being used in a class. Best, * Meghann Matwichuk, M.S. Associate Librarian Film and Video Collection Department Morris Library, University of Delaware 181 S. College Ave. Newark, DE 19717 (302) 831-1475 http://www.lib.udel.edu/filmandvideo On 7/2/2012 7:31 PM, Rosen, Rhonda J. wrote: Do you guys quality check every dvd that comes into your collection? We are finding that this is becoming a burden...we used to use students to check, but with less and less work study Hours being available, we are needing students at the counter and not watching videos... Is it worth it? Rhonda Rhonda Rosen| Head, Media Access Services William H. Hannon Library | Loyola Marymount University One LMU Drive, MS 8200 | Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659 rhonda.ro...@lmu.edu| 310/338-4584| http://library.lmu.edu http://library.lmu.edu/ You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians. *--Monty Python* 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] quality check? (Meghann Matwichuk-Rhonda Rosen
Hi Rhonda, Meghann and other Media librarians I want to give some of my experience with DVDs, 1) DVDs are tricky pieces of metal, they work on one device and behave badly on another, the following tale will explain : In a public screening in JCC Utopia in Brooklyn towards the end (50 min) of a 70 minute screening of Rafting to Bombay the DVD stopped and the operator could not run it to the end, he had a another DVD it had the same problem , he checked both on his own home DVD they had this problem, he sent them back to me, we checked them, both worked perfectly. As a client is always correct we compensated the JCC . My conclusion and experience is that the same DVD works on one device and not on another, but usually computers read them without a problem . 2) another problem is scratches on the DVD that occur en-route by post, as the postal services squeeze the packets, the plastic casing (book size 19 X13 cms) tend to crack , the bubble sheeted envelopes don't give enough protection so now I use ordinary recycled paper envelopes and pad the DVD with carton cut out of discarded cartons, and put the DVD into a plastic sleeve that goes into the bigger book size casing, giving double protection, I believe I have solved this problem. 3) I'm distributing a French film Murder of a Hatmaker I received from the producer Multi-zone DVDs but they didn't work on NTSC players in USA , I had to make NTSC copies and replace the ones I already distributed in America. I hope my experience helps in deciding if to check or not DVDs Cheers Nahum Laufer http://onedayafterpeace.com/index.php http://docsforeducation.com/ Sales Docs for Education Erez Laufer Films Holland st 10 Afulla 18371 Israel videolib@lists.berkeley.edu -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 10:52 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: videolib Digest, Vol 56, Issue 4 Send videolib mailing list submissions to videolib@lists.berkeley.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/video...@lists.berkeley.ed u or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu You can reach the person managing the list at videolib-ow...@lists.berkeley.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of videolib digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: quality check? (Meghann Matwichuk) 2 -- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 11:36:06 -0400 From: Meghann Matwichuk mtw...@udel.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] quality check? To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Message-ID: 4ff31166.6020...@udel.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hi Rhonda, We do have our students scan most material (standard DVDs and Blurays, skipping through chapters, just to make sure there are no obvious problems with operability). There aren't many problems, but this doesn't take much time. We have any DVD-Rs or very expensive films watched from start to finish. We do turn up problems in some DVD-Rs, especially from a few key vendors, so we feel this is very important even though it takes some time. We don't want a problem discovered after the film has been added to the collection and is being used in a class. Best, * Meghann Matwichuk, M.S. Associate Librarian Film and Video Collection Department Morris Library, University of Delaware 181 S. College Ave. Newark, DE 19717 (302) 831-1475 http://www.lib.udel.edu/filmandvideo On 7/2/2012 7:31 PM, Rosen, Rhonda J. wrote: Do you guys quality check every dvd that comes into your collection? We are finding that this is becoming a burden...we used to use students to check, but with less and less work study Hours being available, we are needing students at the counter and not watching videos... Is it worth it? Rhonda Rhonda Rosen| Head, Media Access Services William H. Hannon Library | Loyola Marymount University One LMU Drive, MS 8200 | Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659 rhonda.ro...@lmu.edu| 310/338-4584| http://library.lmu.edu http://library.lmu.edu/ You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians. *--Monty Python* 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
[Videolib] quality check?
Do you guys quality check every dvd that comes into your collection? We are finding that this is becoming a burden...we used to use students to check, but with less and less work study Hours being available, we are needing students at the counter and not watching videos... Is it worth it? Rhonda Rhonda Rosen| Head, Media Access Services William H. Hannon Library | Loyola Marymount University One LMU Drive, MS 8200 | Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659 rhonda.ro...@lmu.edu| 310/338-4584| http://library.lmu.eduhttp://library.lmu.edu/ You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians. --Monty Python 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.
