I am the liaison/subject librarian for art, architecture, industrial
design and music as well as the interdisciplinary media librarian for
video and digital images and Head, Fine Arts & Visual Resources (also
includes Drama, Dance & Film and associated subject specialist) at the
University of Calgary Library, so I acquire print and media materials
for my subject areas as well as manage/coordinate the interdisciplinary
media collection and staff.
I have an interdisciplinary video collections fund which is used mainly
to acquire titles suggested by teaching faculty for classroom use either
by submissions directly to my unit or submitted via other
liaison/subject librarians to my unit. All of us liaison/subject
librarians can also submit requests to this interdisciplinary fund
however this accounts for a minority of the requests. Any titles
acquired with the interdisciplinary fund must be housed in our main
video collection.
In addition, subject librarians can and do sometimes order videos from
their own library subject funds, new faculty library collection funds,
or sometimes teaching faculty grants. Videos funded from other funds
are still ordered in our unit (where the video ordering and PPR
expertise lies) however can be housed in the requestor's branch library
or other library location.
Towards the end of a fiscal year when there is money left in the
interdisciplinary video fund, I often confer selectively with subject
librarians on titles to spend out the remaining funds. And yes, some
subject librarians are more proactive in requesting videos for the
collection than others.
We verify that video titles are not available in our vendor-hosted
streaming video collections before acquiring on DVD. We don't yet have
our own streaming video server and process.
Streaming video collections are acquired through separate centralized
funds collaboratively between myself and a Collections librarian.
Marilyn
On 9/22/2010 1:58 PM, Benjamin Turner wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
At your institutions, is DVD and Video selection the responsibility of
subject specialists, or primarily the responsibility of a media
specialist? Or is the responsibility shared?
Thank you very much for your feedback.
Benjamin Turner
Assistant Professor, Instructional Services
St. John's University Libraries
turn...@stjohns.edu
718.990.5562
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.
--
Marilyn Nasserden
Head, Fine Arts& Visual Resources
Libraries and Cultural Resources
25 MacKimmie Library Block
University of Calgary
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, Alberta, CANADA
marilyn.nasser...@ucalgary.ca
Phone: (403) 220-3795
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.
