Brigid Duffy
Audio Visual/ITV Center
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132-4200
E-mail: bduffy@sfsu.edu
>On 2/6/03 4:09 PM "Mike Boedicker" <mboedicker@hotmail.com> sent this out:
>
>> Do you repair damaged videos or simply discard them? The two local places
>> that did our repairs (a photo store and a video rental store) stopped doing
>> it, so I bought a kit to do the job myself but frankly it sucks (both the
>> kit and the process). I'd be interested in hearing your policies re damaged
>> tapes. Thanks.
>>
>> Mike
>
>In my regular life (before being laid off from being Director of
>Multimedia), we did repair tapes whose brown part had become separated from
>the leader, but we didn't undertake repairing the brown part itself. We
>always purchased a new replacement copy if circulation demanded it. In some
>cases we had multiple copies and the other copies were sufficient to pick up
>the slack for the damaged tape and so we wouldn't buy a replacement in that
>case.
>
>Bottom line was that I didn't want to jeopardize the schools' equipment with
>a splice on the brown part of the tape.
>
>HTH
>
>Rick Faaberg