This has been coming up for us as well, in various scenarios! As far as New Day streaming licenses, we did recently purchase a 14-day license for a relatively short (22 minutes) film that one of our faculty wanted to show but we didn't feel the content merited the purchase price of either the physical DVD or a more extensive streaming license. We tried to arrange the timing of the license so that we could test it and make sure it would work on the day, and it went well. The only problem we had with it was that the professor shared the link to it with a colleague so he could preview it and he waited too long to try it! So I had to deal with the frustration he experienced in not being able to view it, but it was a communication problem on this end and not a problem with the license per se. We haven't as yet devised any policy around this kind of thing. We are a very small school and very small library, so we're able to evaluate each request on its own merits and haven't (yet) had to have a policy to rely on.
My other scenario, which should probably be the subject of a separate thread (not that it hasn't already been discussed extensively on this list!) is that we recently got a request to purchase a DVD of a feature film and then make it available as streaming content for an online class (the actual question I got was "if we had a server, could we legally do this?"). So far we are unwilling to pursue this kind of streaming license (even if were available, which I'm not sure it would be. As I say...a topic for another discussion!) Cary Jardine, MLS Research and Instruction Librarian Antioch University New England Keene, NH 03431 603.283.2405 cjard...@antioch.edu On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Gail Gawlik <ggaw...@stfrancis.edu> wrote: > My school is just starting to use streaming videos. So far we have only > purchased video databases. But we currently have a professor who is asking > for a single title from New Day Films. So we were wondering: > > 1. Are schools purchasing individual titles for streaming? > 2. If so, what sort of policy to you have for purchasing these titles? > That is, how do you decide what titles to buy and how much to spend? Any > other restrictions? > 3. What sort of licence do you choose for these titles? I see for this > New Day one we could get a 5-year license or a 14-day one. I've also seen > "forever" licences that seem to generally cost twice the price of a normal > DVD. > > Thanks! > Gail > > Gail Gawlik > Head of Technical Services > University of St. Francis Library > Joliet, IL > > 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. > >
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.
