For an official stance on this issue, take a look at the ACRL Guidelines
for Media Resources in Libraries:
http://www.ala.org/acrl/guides/medresg.html
They firmly support cataloging media resources in the same way that print
materials are cataloged. -- Kris
On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, LeeAnne Krause wrote:
> Hi Rhonda- I agree there's no reason for using accession numbers for
> DVDs, if you're using LC for videos. However, in the spirit of healthy
> debate, I'd like to say that I find using accession numbers for all of
> our videos and DVDs works quite well, as long as the media does not need
> to be integrated with the book collections. The main reason I say this,
> is that documentaries especially often cross borders between
> disciplines. For example, is "Killing us Softly III" more Women's
> Studies or Journalism? Where does "Looking for Langston" go: African
> American Studies or Literature? Would the 1994 version of "Romeo and
> Juliet" be put under Shakespeare or not, since it is a loose adaptation?
> There are pros and cons to accession numbering of course, but I shudder
> to think of the difficulties we'd have moving to LC. Just my $0.02.
>
>
>
> LeeAnne L. Krause
> Manager of Educational Films
> USC Film Library
> 803-777-2858
> www.sc.edu/library/film.html
>
>
>
> >>> rrosen@popmail.lmu.edu 07/27/01 03:56PM >>>
> hi everyone!
>
> we catalog our video collection using LC. i think we used LC for the
> videos as they were consistent with the rest of the library's collection,
> and they would be grouped in subjects, where for educational materials that
> makes sense.
> We are currently beginning to build our DVD collection, and so far we have
> been using an accession numbering system, athough to be honest, i'm not
> sure why....
> how are you all cataloging your media collections? is anyone using LC or
> accession numbers? i'm curious...
>
> Rhonda
>
>
>
> Rhonda Rosen
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Kristine R. Brancolini, Director, Digital Library Program
Main Library E170, 1320 E. Tenth Street
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405
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