Just curious, Rhonda, why does your ACQ person purge things *yearly*?? I do
acquisitions - both book and video - using Ex Libris's Aleph system, and I
can't imagine any reason one would need to actually purge order records. We've
been using Ex Libris for 6 or 7 years now, and I have order reco
Hello everyone,
I am curious, and eager to find a new way to manage my ordering records
I assume by now we all order via an online system - we use Innovative. We
enter our media order record, note receipt, etc. in this system. In the past,
we had an Acquisitions Librarian who purged the da
I think everyone's "policy" is (or should be) Title 17 of the US copyright law.
It's illegal and should not be done period. Now enforcing it, is harder, as
it can be difficult to see happen. But in the past when I would see it happen
I would simply explain to the offender that they were not p
Hello:
I would like to post the following question:
Recently, we encountered a situation with a customer ripping music cds
checked out from the library. Does anyone have a policy regarding
customers ripping/copying music cds in the library? If so, how is the
policy enforced?
Thanks,
Mi
Gary: I'm in the process of weeding both a 16mm and a VHS collection from a
medium sized college.
I'm able to get a report of all titles, all formats and the circ and booking
times (not names) for the last 4 years. Given that, I'm able to filter the
categories, such as:
1. 16mm AND stream
or
2.
Hi everyone.
I am beginning an assessment of our Library's media collection dealing with
genocide (in very broad terms). I feel we have a relatively strong collection
both in content and accessibility, and this area is an ongoing collection
development focal point for me. As a very prelimina
Likewise,
When we transferred to an open stacks collection three years ago, much of
our VHS collection that had not circulated for over 3 years (at that time)
were moved to compact shelving storage, available for paging. Fortunately,
for us this is an onsite storage solution -though in the depths
I wanted to add some thoughts. VHS materials lasting longer than DVDs, what
about classifying the video collection as an instructional collection that’s
reserved for graduate teachers and professors, other patrons could view the
films in-library from staff operated control stations linked to TV mon
Unfortunately, Mike, storage at UC can't be negotiated. We have a huge
remote storage facility (about 6 miles from here). Individual unit quotas
for sending stuff out are strictly governed by dollars and space
availability. Negotiation is pretty much out of the question.
Again, the prospect of
Thanks, Rue! This is helpful
I'm only looking at feature films on vhs at the moment. We have about 14K
documentary, performance, primary source titles on vhs that I'm not
touching at the moment (although we are sending big chunks of this stuff
out to remote storage)
Gary
> I was in this posit
VHS degradation hasn't been a major issue for us, particularly since the
circulation of vhs has been declining for the past 10 years.
gary
> One advantage of working for a vendor rather than a library is that I
> never have to weed or worry about storage space. However, in my personal
> collecti
One advantage of working for a vendor rather than a library is that I never
have to weed or worry about storage space. However, in my personal collection,
I do have to worry about those factors and I've encountered a problem with VHS
tapes degrading and becoming unplayable over time. Does that e
I hover over our usage statistics and make an occasional go at the VHS
collection. After dealing with space crunches for years, we added what
Gemtrac compact shelving we could onsite and sent to storage every VHS
tape that hadn't circulated in five years. Offsite storage for us
means two days retri
hi Gary,
I haven't yet, but will likely be in the near future, weeding any tapes
with a DVD duplicate.
I haven't been able to afford duplicating everything, so that will take
a few years anyway -- am still in the process of requesting funds to do
that. jane
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>
> On 10/18/10 8:05 PM, "ghand
I was in this position (for various reasons) last year. I have problems with
wholesale withdrawals/disposals of media based entirely on format (which has
been seen as quite OK by some here and I guess necessary at times) and need to
keep a balanced perspective, so the considerations I focused o
Hi All,
I see from the online literature about Kansas City that it's known as the "City
of Fountains." Does anyone know if there's any kind of tour of the city that
makes stops at some of the more beautiful and interesting fountains?
Cheers,
Matt
Mat
It sounds like you are more concerned about storage space than de-accessioning
the tapes. Why? Storage can be negotiated, but once you withdraw the tapes,
they are gone forever. Are you saving that space for something more important?
If you have unique and extensive collections, they don't have
Hi Gary,
As long as your faculty can get their minds around the 'hit stop once' rule
on DVDs, they can be cued in a machine to a precise point. That said, there
are some titles that are still assigned in classes where I hold on to all
copies. For the rest, they will eventually be culled due to spa
Hi Gary-
I feel your pain. Letting go is hard, but also necessary when space is a
premium.
I first encountered this format dilemma when CDs came into being and I
de-accessioned my LP collection, except for a special jazz gift collection. I
felt sentimental about these materials, and we had
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