I've already addressed these questions to listservs for media catalogers, art librarians, and visual resource librarians, with the goal of exploring best practices for our own collections, but would be remiss if I didn't ask the specialists on VIDEOLIB. If you only know some of the answers, perhaps there's someone else at your library able & willing to fill in the blanks?
1. In your academic library media collections, how do you keep track of the media titles for which your institution owns or the library has purchased public performance rights (PPR)? 2. For media collections supporting instruction, are non-theatrical titles (documentaries, interviews, etc.) normally purchased with PPR, or only selectively? 3. Is it important that faculty have access to PPR information at your institution? Are institutional guidelines on PPR easily accessible? 4. Does the responsibility to note or keep track of PPR fall on your selectors, on acquisitions staff, on catalogers, or on a media specialist? 5. How is PPR information recorded? In the original order record, in the bibliographic record, or another way? 6. If the information is stored in the MARC record, which field is used? 540, 590, or a general note in a 500 field? Does data in this field display in your online catalog? 7. Is PPR information easily retrievable from your ILS? If not, how do your librarians and/or faculty access this information per item? Alternatively, do you maintain a list of distributors for which performance rights are standard with purchase (e.g., Films in the Humanities & Sciences)? I will create a digest of responses to share, upon request. Many thanks, Kathy Edwards Reference & Collection Development Librarian Emery A. Gunnin Architecture Library 112 Lee Hall Clemson University Clemson SC 29634 kat...@clemson.edu<mailto:kat...@clemson.edu> (864) 656-4289
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.
