I would be fine with no more DVDs if streaming was an option. I try to avoid 
buying DVDs as I consider them to be nearly useless and prone to damage. We 
have 4 dispersed campuses, lots of online classes, and lots of adjunct faculty 
who cannot easily collect physical media. And faculty who want to show the same 
title on the same day.  

I am not hung up on perpetual access rights, because streaming is valuable to 
me and I want an easy, hosted way to manage or content that includes stats, 
captioning, embedding, etc. I also want to maintain a "fresh" collection, save 
space, and staff time.

Would I rather be able to buy digital files and never pay for them again, ever? 
Sure, but right now I am willing to pay the price I pay for hosted streaming 
titles, because hosted streaming is valuable to my institution, and DVDs are 
nearly worthless here. Not to mention, we have many $300+ DVDs that have never 
circulated. I'd rather pay $100/ title per year for streaming that I know will 
get used or is getting used than spend money on physical media at this point. 
Oh, and my favorite option is PDA/ DDA because I feel that really does help me 
make sure I am paying for actual use. For what it is worth, I'm at a public 
university with just over 6,000 FTE. 

Jennifer

Jennifer DeJonghe
Librarian and Professor
Metropolitan State University
St. Paul, MN



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   3. Re: No more DVDs? (Kerbel, Michael)
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   5. Re: No more DVDs? (Moshiri, Farhad)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 15:46:37 +0000
From: Jonathan Miller <jmil...@icarusfilms.com>
Subject: Re: [Videolib] No more DVDs?
To: "videolib@lists.berkeley.edu" <videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>
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Dear Farhad

Thank you = I appreciate the problem with having to license a big collection - 
that makes perfect sense. What if the title was available to stream 
individually, by itself, for the same, or lower price, than the DVD?

Jonathan


From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu 
[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Moshiri, Farhad
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 10:42 AM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: [Videolib] No more DVDs?

Dear Jonathan,

We just ordered a DVD from your company last week. Recently, there has been 
discussion on this topic in this listserv. I can speak for my university only. 
We develop our collection in both formats. We do have some streaming and we 
also have a large collection of DVDs. Students want only streaming. Faculty 
don't care what format is the program as long as there is an easy to use 
playback machine. They are interested in having access to specific contents 
only. We do not have a large budget for AV so if your company decides not to 
produce DVDs, we cannot subscribe to Docuseek2 instead and we are forced to 
tell our faculty that we no longer can get your programs. The problem for 
university libraries with small budget for AV is that we need individual 
programs from a variety of publishers. But each of these publishers are in a 
different streaming platform such as Docuseek2, Kanopy, Alexander Street Press, 
Infobase, etc. We are never able to subscribe to all of these services. But we 
are ab
 le to purchase individual DVDs from each of them as needed.


Farhad Moshiri, MLS
Post-Masters Advanced Study Certificate
Audiovisual  Librarian
Subject areas: Music, Dance, Copyright issues, Middle Eastern Studies 
University of the Incarnate Word J.E. & L.E. Mabee Library
4301 Broadway - CPO 297
San Antonio, TX 78209
(210) 829-3842









From: 
videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu> 
[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Miller
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 9:19 AM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>
Subject: [Videolib] No more DVDs?

Dear Videolib friends

As many of you know Icarus Films has been helping to build, and currently has 
over 300 titles on, Docuseek2, to provide colleges and universities streaming 
access to our collection over the internet.

Yes, we continue to invest in producing and releasing DVDs of the same titles. 
And, as streaming usage increases, selling fewer and fewer of them.

It is making me wonder if we should stop selling DVDs altogether, not producing 
them at all for new films, and not ordering any more once we sell the last one 
of an older one.

What do you think would happen if we did that?

How many of you would definitely NOT buy or use a film that a professor or 
collection development librarian wanted to have, if it was ONLY available via 
streaming?

I'm serious in asking this question, I think it may be time to take a (perhaps) 
drastic step, and not another small incremental one.  What do you think?  
Thanks!

Curiously yours,

Jonathan Miller



Jonathan Miller
President
Icarus Films
32 Court Street, 21st Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201

www.IcarusFilms.com<http://www.icarusfilms.com/>
http://HomeVideo.IcarusFilms.com<http://homevideo.icarusfilms.com/>

Tel 1.718.488.8900
Fax 1.718.488.8642
jmil...@icarusfilms.com<mailto:jmil...@icarusfilms.com>


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Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2015 09:47:49 -0600
From: "Gail Gawlik" <ggaw...@stfrancis.edu>
Subject: Re: [Videolib] No more DVDs?
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We would never buy a title that is only available through streaming unless it 
came as some sort of package deal through the consortium we belong to.  For 
instance, we do subscribe to the Films on Demand titles.
 In a similar way, we would never purchase an e-book unless it was some sort of 
a package deal.
 
On the other hand, our AV budget is so teeny-tiny, that we could never afford 
to buy a DVD directly from Icarus.  Makes me sad because they have some really 
great titles.
 
:( Gail Gawlik
Assistant Director of Library Technical Services Brown Library University of 
St. Francis Joliet, IL

>>> Jonathan Miller <jmil...@icarusfilms.com> 11/3/2015 9:19 AM >>>

Dear Videolib friends
 
As many of you know Icarus Films has been helping to build, and currently has 
over 300 titles on, Docuseek2, to provide colleges and universities streaming 
access to our collection over the internet. 
 
Yes, we continue to invest in producing and releasing DVDs of the same titles. 
And, as streaming usage increases, selling fewer and fewer of them. 
 
It is making me wonder if we should stop selling DVDs altogether, not producing 
them at all for new films, and not ordering any more once we sell the last one 
of an older one. 
 
What do you think would happen if we did that? 
 
How many of you would definitely NOT buy or use a film that a professor or 
collection development librarian wanted to have, if it was ONLY available via 
streaming?
 
I?m serious in asking this question, I think it may be time to take a
(perhaps) drastic step, and not another small incremental one.  What do you 
think?  Thanks! 
 
Curiously yours, 
 
Jonathan Miller
 
 
 
Jonathan Miller
President
Icarus Films
32 Court Street, 21st Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201
 
www.IcarusFilms.com ( http://www.icarusfilms.com/ ) 
http://HomeVideo.IcarusFilms.com ( http://homevideo.icarusfilms.com/ )
 
Tel 1.718.488.8900
Fax 1.718.488.8642
jmil...@icarusfilms.com
 



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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 15:49:12 +0000
From: "Kerbel, Michael" <michael.ker...@yale.edu>
Subject: Re: [Videolib] No more DVDs?
To: "<videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>" <videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>
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Can you consider making dvds on demand (with the understanding that the 
turnaround may be longer than it is now)?

Sent from my iPhone


On Nov 3, 2015, at 10:23 AM, Jonathan Miller 
<jmil...@icarusfilms.com<mailto:jmil...@icarusfilms.com>> wrote:

Dear Videolib friends

As many of you know Icarus Films has been helping to build, and currently has 
over 300 titles on, Docuseek2, to provide colleges and universities streaming 
access to our collection over the internet.

Yes, we continue to invest in producing and releasing DVDs of the same titles. 
And, as streaming usage increases, selling fewer and fewer of them.

It is making me wonder if we should stop selling DVDs altogether, not producing 
them at all for new films, and not ordering any more once we sell the last one 
of an older one.

What do you think would happen if we did that?

How many of you would definitely NOT buy or use a film that a professor or 
collection development librarian wanted to have, if it was ONLY available via 
streaming?

I?m serious in asking this question, I think it may be time to take a (perhaps) 
drastic step, and not another small incremental one.  What do you think?  
Thanks!

Curiously yours,

Jonathan Miller



Jonathan Miller
President
Icarus Films
32 Court Street, 21st Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201

www.IcarusFilms.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.icarusfilms.com_&d=AwMFAg&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=kqJI5zcwJUPHMRRddnEufm2w-PoZdFVS8HTiMwjZqp0&m=nhNnwAyMY_J7A231pFvUEvQQCftLEXr24rbqozMdW0Q&s=B17vf33Tk2LwE3Rw7oLrrk2AbZBjuimxM8PNhh3o5mY&e=>
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Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 15:56:12 +0000
From: "Moshiri, Farhad" <mosh...@uiwtx.edu>
Subject: Re: [Videolib] No more DVDs?
To: "videolib@lists.berkeley.edu" <videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>
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And I forgot to add that I know individual titles are available in streaming 
format. But we never buy a title for a short period of time such as one year or 
three years. All individual titles in streaming are licensed for a short time 
only.


Farhad Moshiri, MLS
Post-Masters Advanced Study Certificate
Audiovisual  Librarian
Subject areas: Music, Dance, Copyright issues, Middle Eastern Studies 
University of the Incarnate Word J.E. & L.E. Mabee Library
4301 Broadway - CPO 297
San Antonio, TX 78209
(210) 829-3842









From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu 
[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Moshiri, Farhad
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 9:42 AM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: [Videolib] No more DVDs?

Dear Jonathan,

We just ordered a DVD from your company last week. Recently, there has been 
discussion on this topic in this listserv. I can speak for my university only. 
We develop our collection in both formats. We do have some streaming and we 
also have a large collection of DVDs. Students want only streaming. Faculty 
don't care what format is the program as long as there is an easy to use 
playback machine. They are interested in having access to specific contents 
only. We do not have a large budget for AV so if your company decides not to 
produce DVDs, we cannot subscribe to Docuseek2 instead and we are forced to 
tell our faculty that we no longer can get your programs. The problem for 
university libraries with small budget for AV is that we need individual 
programs from a variety of publishers. But each of these publishers are in a 
different streaming platform such as Docuseek2, Kanopy, Alexander Street Press, 
Infobase, etc. We are never able to subscribe to all of these services. But we 
are ab
 le to purchase individual DVDs from each of them as needed.


Farhad Moshiri, MLS
Post-Masters Advanced Study Certificate
Audiovisual  Librarian
Subject areas: Music, Dance, Copyright issues, Middle Eastern Studies 
University of the Incarnate Word J.E. & L.E. Mabee Library
4301 Broadway - CPO 297
San Antonio, TX 78209
(210) 829-3842









From: 
videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu> 
[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Miller
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 9:19 AM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>
Subject: [Videolib] No more DVDs?

Dear Videolib friends

As many of you know Icarus Films has been helping to build, and currently has 
over 300 titles on, Docuseek2, to provide colleges and universities streaming 
access to our collection over the internet.

Yes, we continue to invest in producing and releasing DVDs of the same titles. 
And, as streaming usage increases, selling fewer and fewer of them.

It is making me wonder if we should stop selling DVDs altogether, not producing 
them at all for new films, and not ordering any more once we sell the last one 
of an older one.

What do you think would happen if we did that?

How many of you would definitely NOT buy or use a film that a professor or 
collection development librarian wanted to have, if it was ONLY available via 
streaming?

I'm serious in asking this question, I think it may be time to take a (perhaps) 
drastic step, and not another small incremental one.  What do you think?  
Thanks!

Curiously yours,

Jonathan Miller



Jonathan Miller
President
Icarus Films
32 Court Street, 21st Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201

www.IcarusFilms.com<http://www.icarusfilms.com/>
http://HomeVideo.IcarusFilms.com<http://homevideo.icarusfilms.com/>

Tel 1.718.488.8900
Fax 1.718.488.8642
jmil...@icarusfilms.com<mailto:jmil...@icarusfilms.com>


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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 15:59:30 +0000
From: "Moshiri, Farhad" <mosh...@uiwtx.edu>
Subject: Re: [Videolib] No more DVDs?
To: "videolib@lists.berkeley.edu" <videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>
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Not if they are sold (licensed) for a short time. In addition, for AV 
librarians it is very difficult to manage access to streaming video title by 
title in a variety of platforms. We mostly prefer managing large databases.


Farhad Moshiri, MLS
Post-Masters Advanced Study Certificate
Audiovisual  Librarian
Subject areas: Music, Dance, Copyright issues, Middle Eastern Studies 
University of the Incarnate Word J.E. & L.E. Mabee Library
4301 Broadway - CPO 297
San Antonio, TX 78209
(210) 829-3842








From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu 
[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Miller
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 9:47 AM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: [Videolib] No more DVDs?

Dear Farhad

Thank you = I appreciate the problem with having to license a big collection - 
that makes perfect sense. What if the title was available to stream 
individually, by itself, for the same, or lower price, than the DVD?

Jonathan


From: 
videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu> 
[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Moshiri, Farhad
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 10:42 AM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: [Videolib] No more DVDs?

Dear Jonathan,

We just ordered a DVD from your company last week. Recently, there has been 
discussion on this topic in this listserv. I can speak for my university only. 
We develop our collection in both formats. We do have some streaming and we 
also have a large collection of DVDs. Students want only streaming. Faculty 
don't care what format is the program as long as there is an easy to use 
playback machine. They are interested in having access to specific contents 
only. We do not have a large budget for AV so if your company decides not to 
produce DVDs, we cannot subscribe to Docuseek2 instead and we are forced to 
tell our faculty that we no longer can get your programs. The problem for 
university libraries with small budget for AV is that we need individual 
programs from a variety of publishers. But each of these publishers are in a 
different streaming platform such as Docuseek2, Kanopy, Alexander Street Press, 
Infobase, etc. We are never able to subscribe to all of these services. But we 
are ab
 le to purchase individual DVDs from each of them as needed.


Farhad Moshiri, MLS
Post-Masters Advanced Study Certificate
Audiovisual  Librarian
Subject areas: Music, Dance, Copyright issues, Middle Eastern Studies 
University of the Incarnate Word J.E. & L.E. Mabee Library
4301 Broadway - CPO 297
San Antonio, TX 78209
(210) 829-3842









From: 
videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu> 
[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Miller
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 9:19 AM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>
Subject: [Videolib] No more DVDs?

Dear Videolib friends

As many of you know Icarus Films has been helping to build, and currently has 
over 300 titles on, Docuseek2, to provide colleges and universities streaming 
access to our collection over the internet.

Yes, we continue to invest in producing and releasing DVDs of the same titles. 
And, as streaming usage increases, selling fewer and fewer of them.

It is making me wonder if we should stop selling DVDs altogether, not producing 
them at all for new films, and not ordering any more once we sell the last one 
of an older one.

What do you think would happen if we did that?

How many of you would definitely NOT buy or use a film that a professor or 
collection development librarian wanted to have, if it was ONLY available via 
streaming?

I'm serious in asking this question, I think it may be time to take a (perhaps) 
drastic step, and not another small incremental one.  What do you think?  
Thanks!

Curiously yours,

Jonathan Miller



Jonathan Miller
President
Icarus Films
32 Court Street, 21st Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201

www.IcarusFilms.com<http://www.icarusfilms.com/>
http://HomeVideo.IcarusFilms.com<http://homevideo.icarusfilms.com/>

Tel 1.718.488.8900
Fax 1.718.488.8642
jmil...@icarusfilms.com<mailto:jmil...@icarusfilms.com>


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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 10:00:35 -0600
From: Jeanne Little <jeanne.lit...@uni.edu>
Subject: Re: [Videolib] No more DVDs?
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Jonathan,

I echo what Farhad has said in regards to our buying power. We purchase 
streaming rights for our Distance Education program on a limited basis, and 
rarely purchase streaming for other individual titles. We do not currently have 
a streaming platform subscription but will be venturing into that area on a 
small scale in the near future. That being said, we understand that streaming 
is wonderful for giving students 24/7 access and for faculty to link to in our 
eLearning system for their classes, but our budget is so tight, that we could 
not subscribe to several streaming platforms in the hopes that one of them 
would have what our faculty and students need.

We do still purchase in DVD format and I do not anticipate we will stop doing 
so in the future.

Jeanne Little

--
Rod Library - Room 250
Resource Management/Collections Unit
Content Discovery Division
University of Northern Iowa
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319-273-7255

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Moshiri, Farhad <mosh...@uiwtx.edu> wrote:

> Dear Jonathan,
>
>
>
> We just ordered a DVD from your company last week. Recently, there has 
> been discussion on this topic in this listserv. I can speak for my 
> university only. We develop our collection in both formats. We do have 
> some streaming and we also have a large collection of DVDs. Students 
> want only streaming. Faculty don?t care what format is the program as 
> long as there is an easy to use playback machine. They are interested 
> in having access to specific contents only. We do not have a large 
> budget for AV so if your company decides not to produce DVDs, we 
> cannot subscribe to Docuseek2 instead and we are forced to tell our 
> faculty that we no longer can get your programs. The problem for 
> university libraries with small budget for AV is that we need 
> individual programs from a variety of publishers. But each of these 
> publishers are in a different streaming platform such as Docuseek2, 
> Kanopy, Alexander Street Press, Infobase, etc. We are never able to 
> subscribe to all of these services. But we are able to purchase individual 
> DVDs from each of them as needed.
>
>
>
>
>
> Farhad Moshiri, MLS
>
> Post-Masters Advanced Study Certificate
>
> Audiovisual  Librarian
>
> Subject areas: Music, Dance, Copyright issues,
>
> Middle Eastern Studies
>
> University of the Incarnate Word
>
> J.E. & L.E. Mabee Library
>
> 4301 Broadway ? CPO 297
>
> San Antonio, TX 78209
>
> (210) 829-3842
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:
> videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] *On Behalf Of *Jonathan Miller
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 03, 2015 9:19 AM
> *To:* videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
> *Subject:* [Videolib] No more DVDs?
>
>
>
> Dear Videolib friends
>
>
>
> As many of you know Icarus Films has been helping to build, and 
> currently has over 300 titles on, Docuseek2, to provide colleges and 
> universities streaming access to our collection over the internet.
>
>
>
> Yes, we continue to invest in producing and releasing DVDs of the same 
> titles. And, as streaming usage increases, selling fewer and fewer of them.
>
>
>
> It is making me wonder if we should stop selling DVDs altogether, not 
> producing them at all for new films, and not ordering any more once we 
> sell the last one of an older one.
>
>
>
> What do you think would happen if we did that?
>
>
>
> How many of you would definitely NOT buy or use a film that a 
> professor or collection development librarian wanted to have, if it 
> was ONLY available via streaming?
>
>
>
> I?m serious in asking this question, I think it may be time to take a
> (perhaps) drastic step, and not another small incremental one.  What 
> do you think?  Thanks!
>
>
>
> Curiously yours,
>
>
>
> Jonathan Miller
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Jonathan Miller
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