VIDEOLIB Archive: RE: Shelving nonfeature videos

In fact, some libraries do interfile more than videos. I have a week-end job, where that's done, and for some subject areas it makes a lot of sense (eg. language learning materials--video, audio or text are all targeted to the same users).

That's not what I do in my own library (my f/t job, however).

Greg

>From: Deg Farrelly

>Reply-To: videolib@library.berkeley.edu

>To: Multiple recipients of list

>Subject: RE: Shelving nonfeature videos

>Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:55:33 -0800 (PST)

>Weighing in in my usual curmudgeonly way.

>I would be interested in hearing the arguments for interfiling the video

>collection considering that most libraries do not interfile the rest of

>their collections.

>It is common for libraries to separately shelve materials by format:

>Reference, Periodicals, Oversize, Records, CDs, Cassettes, Microformats

>Do libraries that interfile videos also interfile these materials? Why stop

>with the nonfiction videos. Couldn't feature films also be classified and

>interfiled? Or, interfiled with fiction?

>Just a couple thoughts.

>deg farrelly

>Arizona State University West

>deg@asu.edu

>**********

>Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 09:24:54 -0500 (EST)

>From: Toni Grow

>To: videolib@library.berkeley.edu

>Subject: Shelving nonfeature videos

>There has been some discussion about intershelving our nonfeature videos

>(which circulate fairly heavily) with the nonfiction books. Talking to

>librarians in our area has yielded mixed reactions, so I am looking for

>broader consensus. The library is a medium sized stand-alone library

>for

>an affluent suburban community.

>Thanks in advance for your input.

>Toni Grow

>Adult Services Librarian

>Baldwin Public Library

>Birmingham, MI 48009