Funny this should come up when I'm doing exactly this- the task of weeding the VHS collection. First I have a list generated in Call # order for the DVD, VHS and streaming formats. This list includes total uses since 2006 (when we migrated to Milennium/now Sierra) and also Last Use date. I work through the list and mark it, looking for VHS only that has had 0 use in 5 years.
If we have VHS and DVD, I look at last use on the VHS. If it was recently, it may be because the DVD was added recently, or, the DVD was out when someone wanted the content. Our system does let us look at who the last user was: faculty or student - so that is a final check to see if an instructor is using the content. Unfortunately, the streaming providers we work with are unable to give us title-level stats on use when we license a collection. Individual titles from Films Media/Films on Demand can be verified, but that's the only source where we have added streaming content one at a time. The collections from Alexander St. and NFB are not providing title by title data- at least as far as I can determine. If anybody knows differently, I'd like to hear about it. Once the list is marked, I go to the shelves, and pull off the videos. I'm not comfortable delegating this, because there are decisions I may make, once I see the video in the subject area where it sits. The videos are then given to staff to mark as withdrawn. That's my process - and I only have an opportunity to do it when exams are over and all material is returned, which is right now in December, and again in intersession in May. Susan Susan Weber Media Librarian Library T 604.323.5533 F 604.323.5512 swe...@langara.bc.ca <mailto:Susan Weber <swe...@langara.bc.ca>> Langara. <http://www.langara.bc.ca> 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6 Please consider the environment before printing. CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately and delete this email from your system. On 19/12/2012 6:00 PM, Steinhoff, Cindy wrote: > 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. > 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.
