For example, if we owned a Icarus Films title on DVD with lifetime public
performance rights can we screen this DVD in our downtown movie theater
which is owned by the university and advertise it to the public as long as
no admission is charged? The hesitation I have is that the theater is not
on
Where we can't purchase streaming rights for a film and it is available from
Netflix, Blockbuster, iTunes, or HuluPlus we will let the faculty member know
and offer to make a link to the vendor of choice in our course reserve system
so students can easily navigate to the resource and set up an
No-there has not been a drop off in circulation here, nor do I foresee one in
the near future. Yes, there are a handful of films that have been only made
available exclusively via streaming-I do wonder if that will be a trend.
Personally I do not see that happening anytime soon, though it
I did not even see you post anything on this but an easy mistake to make.
The concept of a professor being outraged that students might actually
need to go to the library is pretty breathtaking.
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Randal Baier rba...@emich.edu wrote:
Ok, I guessed I missed
Usually faculty are pretty accepting once they understand that while I would
like to help them, the library can't provide the item in that format for
whatever reason (copyright policy, technology issues, ect). When I bring up
assigning Hulu or Netflix subscriptions for their students, they are
Hi Erika,
Some ignore the suggestion but no one hits the roof. As you say $2.99 for a
stream is far less than the cost of a textbook. Once they find out that the
stream is not available they are happy to have another option. The suggestion
at least gives them on option not to have to change
I just did my numbers too. I had a 12% increase in video circulation this fy.
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Erika Peterson
Director of Media Resources
Carrier Library, James Madison University
(540) 568-6770
http://www.lib.jmu.edu/media
From: Kim Crowley kcrow...@flathead.mt.govmailto:kcrow...@flathead.mt.gov
Kim,
I used to have the same concerns about expiring titles. For Netflix, the
site instantwatcher.com is a good resource, as they provide the expiration
date for various titles. I'm not sure they have this information for all
films, as it seems like several titles I checked have a default
Our DVD circulation is up up over 50%
over last fiscal year. VHS is down but still surprisingly
substantial.
Deborah Benrubi
Technical Services Librarian
University of San Francisco
Gleeson Library|Geschke Center
2130 Fulton St.
San Francisco, CA 94117
ph.
Hi Everyone,
Pardon the cross post. I have published a somewhat extensive Digital Video
Collections Guide (http://connect.ala.org/node/183711) on ALA Connect (VRT
Section), consisting of quality licensed and open digital video
collections. This guide is a mirror of the one we use at Minnesota,
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