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 space considerations.
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:05 PM, <ghand...@library.berkeley.edu> wrote: > Hi all > > I think I need input and/or moral support: for various reasons having to > do with space and projected library renovation plans here at UCB, I'm > taking a hard and fairly ruthless look at the collection. > > We currently have somewhere around 5K international cinema titles, about > 96% of which we've re-bought on DVD. As an alternative to sending these > out to storage (thereby completely blowing my storage quota), I am very > seriously considering...gulp!...de-accessioning them. This makes me > nervous and breaks my heart (for which reasons I'm not exactly sure). > > Have any of you larger academic collections gone this route? Are there > compelling reasons NOT to go down this road? I realize that there are > certain benefits to vhs (such as the ability to easily cue) and that some > faculty prefer the format, still... For a largely non-archival collection, > it seems crazy to hold onto fading formats forever. > > What do you think? > > Gary > > > 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. > -- Valerie Gangwer Media Services Director Mary Baldwin College a...@graftonlibrary #7267
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.
