Um would the "sales person" be the producer ? On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Sarah E. McCleskey <sarah.e.mccles...@hofstra.edu> wrote: > Thanks for all the feedback. The sales person told me they had sold to > "many libraries" so I checked the title in Worldcat. Exactly TWO libraries > have WC holdings for it. > > Sarah E. McCleskey > Head of Access Services > Acting Director, FIlm and Media Library > 112 Axinn Library, 123 Hofstra University > Hempstead, NY 11549-1230 > 516-463-5076 > sarah.e.mccles...@hofstra.edu > > > -----Original Message----- > From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu > [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of > ghand...@library.berkeley.edu > Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 1:30 PM > To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu > Subject: Re: [Videolib] question about pricing > > Stir Fry had the gall to come around and ask if I wanted to buy the damn > DVD of Color of Fear for another 400 bucks...um...let's see, that'd mean I > spent a grand on the film. I don't think so... I contend that there > ain't a film on earth worth that much money to an academic collection. > > Gary > > > >> At 12:44 PM 1/21/2010, Jessica Rosner wrote: >> > I would pay $500 for the Cubs World Series highlights DVD ( No Dennis >> > not one from 1908). >> >> Jessica knows I'd pay $500 for that particular sci fi flick as well. >> >> The only single-part film I've spent that much for was about a >> bazillion years ago... okay, I've only been in the job for 15 years, >> so more like 12 or 14 years ago... when we bought the infamous Color >> of Fear VHS from StirFry. Checking the ol' handy dandy circ >> statistics on it, I'd say it really hasn't been worth it. It got a >> lot of use the first couple of years we had it, but since then, just >> a couple of handfuls of checkouts. >> >> On a large campus with six- or seven-digit video materials budgets, >> the $500 might well fly for a high-quality, sure-to-be-used title, >> but on a small campus where the budget is barely in the low >> five-digits, it's very hard to justify the purchase. If there are >> multiple profs who tell me they would like to use it, or if there is >> one prof who is positive it will fit a niche for her year after year, >> then it'll be done, but not usually if it just "sounds like a good one." >> >> BTW, good question, Jessica, about whether depts. pitch in. At times >> here, they do. When we first decided to get the BBC Shakespeare, >> back when it was released in VHS and cost something like $3200, our >> English & Theater departments kicked in a chunk each. >> >> Susan at Wabash >> >> >> >> >> >>>Gary, I'll back in the day you paid $500 for more than a few films. I >>>think under some specialized circumstances it might be worth it. >>>You might pay $195 for a title that would be used once in a class of >>>15 students, while the $500 film is for an intro course that has >>>250 students every semester. I think the bottom line is that the Prof >>>needs to justify the expense. >>> >>>On a related note, do departments every buy something on their own or >>>contribute to a high end item to be used by someone in their dept. ? >>> >>>On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:17 AM, <ghand...@library.berkeley.edu> wrote: >>> > I wouldn't pay $500 for footage of the Second Coming... >>> > >>> > Gary >>> > >>> > >>> > >> >> Susan Albrecht >> Acquisitions Manager >> Wabash College Lilly Library >> Crawfordsville, IN >> x6216 >> albre...@wabash.edu >> >> ********************************************************************************* >> "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."--Neil Peart >> ********************************************************************************* >> >> >> >> 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. >> > > > Gary Handman > Director > Media Resources Center > Moffitt Library > UC Berkeley > > 510-643-8566 > ghand...@library.berkeley.edu > http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC > > "I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself." > --Francois Truffaut > > > 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.
