Hi Matt We circulate foreign language learning CDs, too. We have a pretty wide variety (http://www.lib.unc.edu/house/mrc/pages/collection/language.html) and it is an extremely popular service. We loan them out as kits (so, if Pimsleur Arabic has 8 discs, they all go out together) for 30 days at a time. Like our other media materials, they cannot be recalled or renewed online. As with Kim's collection - these are held with all of our Media Center materials in our closed stacks. We've had this collection for about 7 years - and it remains highly used.
Winifred Fordham Metz Media Librarian & Head, Media Resources Center Undergraduate Library CB#3942 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill fred...@email.unc.edu<mailto:fred...@email.unc.edu> 919.962.4099 On Jun 3, 2011, at 1:39 PM, Stanton, Kim wrote: We circulate foreign language learning CDs and Playaways (self-contained, portable MP3 devices). We’ve purchased Pimsleur, Colloquial Series and Henry Ramond’s Learn In Your Car series. The Pimsleur language learning Playaways are our highest circing audiobook materials. CDs are circ’d as a full set, along with their print guides. We use to barcode each piece, but recently changed our processing to one barcode with a note that pops up in our ILS noting how many discs are in the set. Playaways are circulated with the MP3 device and the battery - we removed the headphone that came with the set. Our audiobook circ rules (loan period, fines, lendable to “courtesy card” holders) are the same rules used for books, rather than other forms of media. Though, like other media materials, audiobooks are still kept in the media center in closed stacks. Kim Stanton From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu> [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Ball, James (jmb4aw) Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 11:54 AM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu> Subject: [Videolib] Foreign language materials Hi All, Is anyone collecting foreign language CDs, and if so what do you collect and how do you circulate them? I get requests for things like Barron’s Mastering French which comes with 12 CDs. First of all, do you even collect material like that, and if so how would you manage and circulate it. Would you check it out as a set? One disc at a time? Is there a different loan period? Are they recallable? Just trying to wrap my head around how to easily and effectively do this. Cheers, Matt ________________________________________ Matt Ball Media and Collections Librarian University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22904 mattb...@virginia.edu<https://mail.eservices.virginia.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=62fe60f092584617be4c37bdfc2dcf42&URL=mailto%3amattball%40virginia.edu> | 434-924-3812
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