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
> > > On 10/18/10 8:05 PM, "ghand...@library.berkeley.edu" > <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 > > -- Jane Sloan Media Librarian 732-932-9407 x37 Rutgers University Libraries */Please consider the environment before printing this email/* 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.
