I do not object to institutional pricing. There are similar models with journal subscriptions for institutions vs. individual. I do like to get some public performance rights when we pay the institutional price. PPR may be needed in some countries for classroom use, but it is not needed within the U.S.. Some of the newer vendors within this market have tried to give no PPR but classroom use rights with institutional pricing ... wrong headed!
Some vendors do have a mission to serve select communities. Discounts for historically black colleges is a good discount fit in this case. Budgets for higher ed, community colleges and public libraries vary per institution. A prefer a medium priced institutional price to tiered pricing. I do know that most pubic libraries have strong guidelines about purchases over say ... $100... and there are few purchases of independent educational documentaries by this type library. Nell Chenault Research Librarian for Film and Music VCU Libraries Virginia Commonwealth University On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Susan Albrecht <albre...@wabash.edu> wrote: > Susan at Wabash College wrote: > Richard, you asked if any of us ever try to work with > publishers/producers/small distributors. My answer is YES, and I did so in > yesterday's case . I'm not necessarily opposed to the concept of tiered > pricing for these kinds of films, but I *do* object to having all colleges > and universities lumped together. I mean, c'mon. With our FTE of 865, > should we *really* have to pay the same price as a Berkeley, Ohio State or > Rutgers? Heck, should we even have to pay the same price as Vanderbilt or > Butler? To me, it should be the number of potential users, not status as > "college or university." So I do ask. And many times the > producer/distributor understands and makes a reasonable alternative offer. > So I say it's worth asking. > > Judy replied: > Yes, and whenever someone from a small liberal arts college expresses > surprise that University of Florida doesn't have a basic service that their > courses use and depend on, I can explain that it's because they price by > the number of potential users, i.e. enrollment. > > > Susan again: > Fair enough. I wasn't actually proposing that these producers and > distributors have an ever-upward pricing scheme, though, where they charge > more and more for higher and higher enrollments. I was simply suggesting > that tiered pricing schemes almost always seem to have THREE components -- > home use, public library/community college, college/university -- and when > the college is very small, I think it makes sense to ask for something > comparable to the PL/community college rate. In a couple of cases, I work > with vendors who do just that for us. In yesterday's situation, the offer > came in between the standard college/university and public library. > > Susan at Wabash > > > > 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.
