Tim - ILL of video is kind of my soapbox. We've benefitted far more than we've been inconvenienced by opening up video lending.
1. If isn't not on reserve or booking for a screening, it's eligible for lending to university community, community, or to other libraries who lend videos. (Excluding videos such as counseling titles that having lending restricts via licenses). 2. We lend reciprocally. If your library's policy is to not ILL videos, we will not lend videos to you. Resource sharing is about fairness. 3. Cost shouldn't be the only reason to not lend. None of us can afford to buy everything. Evaluate requests for out-of-print materials on a title-by-title basis and/or based on the requesting library. ILL guidelines are that if something happens once an item leaves your library, the borrowing library pays (i.e. worry about what your own patrons are borrowing, not what you're lending). See article in the Library Trends AV issue. Feel free to email me directly for more info. Barb Bergman | Media Services & Interlibrary Loan Librarian | Minnesota State University, Mankato | (507) 389-5945 | barbara.berg...@mnsu.edu
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.
