We weeded VHS starting about 2 years ago and made another pass through this past summer. Our criteria are almost exactly like Deg's. We also checked the last circulation date for each program and withdrew anything that hadn't circulated in 3 years.
Cynthia Steinhoff Anne Arundel Community College Arnold, MD The information contained in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. It has been sent for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or any of its content, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. Thank you. -----Original Message----- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Deg Farrelly Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 4:06 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: [Videolib] VHS weeding I am in the process of weeding VHS from our collection now. Mostly we are moving all VHS out of the building into a storage facility (another library) where they will be requestable. (About 9600 titles), but in the process we are withdrawing some titles: @400 VHS that have been in the collection AT LEAST 7 years that have never been borrowed. (I will look at these individually to make sure that there are no irreplaceable titles) @250 titles that we have in our Films on Demand subscription @200 titles in our purchased Filmakers Library Online collection A handful of additional titles from other companies that we have in streaming format on one platform or anotherŠ for example BBC Shakespeare plays Anything in VHS that we also have in DVD Duplicate VHS copies, if there is another VHS (or DVD) copy in the library collection. This is very broad, and actually very conservative, I think. -deg deg farrelly, Media Librarian Arizona State University Libraries Hayden Library C1H1 P.O. Box 871006 Tempe, Arizona 85287-1006 Phone: 602.332.3103 On 12/19/12 1:53 PM, "videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu" <videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu> wrote: >Debra et al, > >Can some of you share your VHS replacement criteria. >Thanks, > >lorraine wochna >Ohio U, Alden Library 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.
