At 07:51 PM 1/31/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi Lloyd, Not to worry. Currently, I'm the Library Director of a 70,000
>vol.+ public library in South Dakota. We have a video collection of about
>3500 titles and we do put a 690 subject field in the OCLC/MARC bib record
>indicating public performance titles - Public performance rights
>videorecordings. I've been an AV librarian for 19 years in medium-sized
>city libraries with 20,000 video collections, system libraries with 40,000
>video collections, etc. and I've always kept track of PP videos by subject.
> I've also been in charge of cataloging those collections and listing PP is
>a GREAT advantage to the public and to in-house use. Also, it is an extra
>hedge against illegal use - no one can saw that they were not informed as
>to the rights utilization, if a court case would materialize. This allows
>patrons to access an alphabetical title listing by that subject, keyword
>and its used a lot by teachers and groups. Your perceptions of
>nontheatrical public performance rights might be a little askew - you're
>right that PP rights are granted by the producer/distributor on a per title
>basis, but most of the time titles from educational distributors come with
>public performance rights anyway - no need to pay extra money. Also, the
>ISBN # for the pp version, as well as the distributor is different; hence a
>totally different bib record. Take for example the Turner PBS Home Video
>line - all home use only; but PBS does dist. all of those titles with PP
>rights - instead of $19.95, they are $49.95 +. Sometimes price is not an
>indicator and even the OCLC bib record is incorrect - take Questar, Finley
>Holiday, and IVN titles - they all come with PP rights and are only $9.95 -
>$39.95. Many of the OCLC bibs say in a note field 500 - for private home
>use only, when they indeed have PP rights. To tell you the truth, the
>positive PR you'll get from having this extra subject heading will outweigh
>the recataloging mess - just make sure the video dept. markets it to
>teachers, etc. Also, the in cases of lost/damaged/extra copies, it should
>be the video selector's responsibility to make sure they get the SAME
>video, including same rights. Just my 2¢ worth. Jim Scholtz. At 05:24 PM
>1/31/00 -0800, you wrote:
>>After a couple of years away from VIDEOLIB I keep finding myself faced
>>with various video-related questions, so I've come back in the hopes of
>>tapping once more into your collective wisdom.
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>>As Head Cataloger at my library I am getting requests from public service
>>staff to add notes to the bibliographic records for videos when the
>>video comes to us with public performance rights. Staff would like
>>to be able to do a keyword search and come up with a list of those titles
>>for programming purposes. I have a couple of concerns about this. It
>>seems to me that public performance rights are granted for the individual
>>copy (or copies) that we purchase at the time. If we put the public
>>performance information on the bib. record, and a couple years later buy
>>a replacement copy of that video title that, for whatever reason, does
>>not come with public performance rights then the information on the
>>bib. record will either be incorrect, or will have to either be removed
>>or modified to remain accurate. Multiply this possibility over hundred
>>of titles and it could become a big maintenance job. It seems more
>>appropriate to put this information on the barcode record for the specific
>>item, but then a keyword search will not work.
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>>My second concern is whether the public performance rights granted to the
>>library transfer to the public. Reading some of the PPR statements, it
>>seems that it is alright for the library to show the video to an audience,
>>but it's not so clear whether a patron checking out this video could legally
>>give their own public performance of the video. I'm also wondering if the
>>rights granted are typically different from video company to video company,
>>so the statement in the bib. record could be correct for some titles and
>>not for others. I do not want to advertise to the public in our catalog
>>that the video comes with public performance rights if they, themselves,
>>cannot legally take advantage of those rights.
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>>I would think that other libraries out there may have dealt with these
>>issues. Am I making too big a deal about my concerns, or are there other
>>solutions that have worked at other institutions? I appreciate any advice
>>that you can pass along.
>>
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>>Lloyd Jansen
>>Head Cataloger
>>Stockton-San Joaquin County
>> (California) Public Library
>>(209) 937-8670
>>ljansen@stockton.lib.ca.us
>>SSJCPL homepage: http://www.stockton.lib.ca.us
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