I've been reading everyone's views on pricing and now feel I must jump in with another perspective. I'm not a librarian. I'm in distance education and go to vendors for streaming rights only for use in our online degree programs. I am not serving the University population, just a small portion of it and I don't like being charged pricing based on the fact that we are a Research I institution or have over 20,000 FTE, etc. I have a limited budget; therefore, I've had to pass on a lot of product because of the pricing for streaming rights. I have good relationships with a lot of the vendors and have been able to negotiate for better pricing in some cases, but it does get tedious.
Shelia Shelia D. Owens Distance Education 200 Brister Hall (901)678-2236 Office (901) 678-5112 Fax www.memphis.edu/ecampus From: Janice Woo [mailto:j...@cca.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 7:11 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] Tiered pricing, FTE, and all that Agree, use the Carnegie Classifications, and please include a tier for Special Focus Institutions. On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Susan Albrecht <albre...@wabash.edu<mailto:albre...@wabash.edu>> wrote: Scott, That's why I mentioned the Carnegie Classifications. No, there's no perfect, completely fair way to do it, but ANY kind of breakdown that acknowledges significant differences in size would be welcomed. I know that with periodicals, there are sometimes only 3 categories for colleges & universities: small, medium and large. The cutoff in one such case for "small" is under 10,000 FTE. I still think there's likely to be a substantial budgetary difference between an institution with 1,000 FTE and one with 10,000, but even that kind of acknowledgement that there are differences between under-10,000 and, say, 10,000-20,000 and over-20,000 might be appropriate. BTW, I appreciated Deg's comments on ASU's particular role in building a large collection - someone needing to ensure that broad, deep, even esoteric collections exist somewhere. Not many institutions expect that of themselves nor provide the budget to accomplish it. I do think that there are a large number of libraries and media centers which want to and attempt to collect a core of those "must-have" independent films, though. Deg is blessed with the resources to have purchased 150 or so titles from NMM. I only managed 68 (plus a dozen or so available at home use level). If size were taken into account even a bit in pricing, perhaps we could have reached 100? Susan Albrecht -----Original Message----- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu> [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu>] On Behalf Of scott petersen Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 3:40 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu> Subject: Re: [Videolib] Tiered pricing, FTE, and all that How would I figure out the resources of a particular school? Of course, it's easy to figure out if a particular institution is a community college or not, but it seems that there could be a dozen ways to slice it up (size, acq budget, etc.) which might just create more confusion for the librarians and trouble for me. I'd like to make the process as simple as possible while offering a fair price (and still make some money). Bset, Scott Petersen www.MataOrtizMovie.com<http://www.MataOrtizMovie.com> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Jessica Rosner <maddux2...@gmail.com<mailto:maddux2...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Scott > I don't think there is a magic number. If you handle all your sales > directly I think the key is flexibility. You can start with a price > you think appropriate but work with colleges and libraries depending > on their resources. If your film has a particular target audience or > user it might help to make them part of the process. Librarians are > much more inclined to purchase films that will be used either in classes or > just taken out. > 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.
