Sally Mason - retiring? Say it ain't so. There will be a
disturbance in the Force of Biblical proportions!
M.L. Richie (without the t)
Tova Aragon wrote:
> Jessica - not a stupid question at all. For me, it is the same
> balancing act whatever the format = meeting the demand for the popular
> bestsellers, providing access to other quality materials and staying
> within my budget. I am lucky in that whatever I buy circulates. We
> have a strong calling for foreign, independent and award winning
> films. Documentaries are very popular too. To help stretch my
> budget, our holds (reserve) lists are allowed to grow longer.
>
> I have enjoyed reading this discussion. I am not officially a media
> librarian. Media collection development is under my "other duties"
> assigned.
>
>
> Tova Aragon
> Adult Services Lead Librarian
> Fort Collins Public Library
> 201 Peterson
> Fort Collins, Colorado 80524
> 970-224-6164
>
> Opinions are my own...
>
>
>
>
>> From: Jessica Rosner <jrosner@kino.com>
>> Reply-To: videolib@library.berkeley.edu
>> To: videolib <videolib@library.berkeley.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [Videolib] Quality vs. quantity -- was Wired for
>> Retirement
>> Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 16:20:45 -0500
>>
>> This is probably a stupid question but for some of us non librarians how
>> would this compare to print materials i.e. how many copies do you
>> order of
>> a Grisham, Mary Higgins Clark vs. less popular serious fiction & non
>> fiction?
>>
>> Jessica
>>
>>
>>
>> > "how do you balance the purchase of 'popular' items that can be
>> found at
>> > any video store versus the lesser-known titles that aren't easily
>> > available?"
>> >
>> > The DVD tsunami has carried us far in the direction of emphasizing
>> > popular titles, in quantity, over pretty much anything else, and I'm
>> > concerned about that. We've managed to retain some balance on the
>> movie
>> > end of things by passing over lesser-quality current release titles
>> and
>> > buying classic English-language and foreign films systematically to
>> make
>> > sure the collection has real depth to it. The problem is that
>> > 'lesser-known titles that aren't easily available' is a good
>> description
>> > for much of our non-movie video collection. Used to be that our
>> > spending favored non-movie titles; now it strongly favors movies.
>> That
>> > needs to be fixed and will be when I make budget allocations for next
>> > year.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > "Any political issues -- such as video budget linked to number
>> > circulated?"
>> >
>> > No formulaic link of budget to circ for any collection. But patron
>> > demand is a factor in budget decisions. I asked for a significant
>> > increase in '05 funding for DVD and got it--in part a recognition that
>> > movie-watching has replaced reading as a leisure time activity for
>> many
>> > people.
>> >
>> >
>> > Peter Cartford
>> > AV Librarian
>> > Johnson County Library
>> > Overland Park, KS
>> > 913-495-2496
>> > cartfordp@jocolibrary.org
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: videolib-bounces@library.berkeley.edu
>> > [mailto:videolib-bounces@library.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Bergman,
>> > Barbara J
>> > Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 5:29 PM
>> > To: videolib@library.berkeley.edu
>> > Subject: [Videolib] Quality vs. quantity -- was Wired for Retirement
>> >
>> >
>> > A question probably more for public librarians...
>> > Just out of curiosity --
>> >
>> > At your library, how do you balance the purchase of "popular" items
>> that
>> > can be found at any video store versus the lesser-known titles that
>> > aren't easily available?
>> > Any political issues -- such as video budget linked to number
>> > circulated?
>> >
>> > Barb
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: videolib-bounces@library.berkeley.edu
>> > [mailto:videolib-bounces@library.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Susan
>> Lacey
>> > Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 3:20 PM
>> > To: videolib@library.berkeley.edu
>> > Subject: RE: [Videolib] Wired for Retirement
>> >
>> > Check out the Miami-Dade Public Library System's catalog
>> (www.mdpls.org)
>> > to see the kind of titles that circulate. Patrons want popular
>> movies,
>> > just like they want popular books. The public pays for library
>> > materials through their taxes; they should get what they want, be it
>> > DVDs, books, audio books, language instruction materials, Internet
>> > access computers, etc. As a Collection Development librarian in a
>> large
>> > urban public library, I must be in touch with what my customers
>> want, be
>> > it "high-brow" or "low-brow" materials or anything in between.
>> >
>> > And, I'm a long way from retirement, unless I win the lottery.
>> >
>> > Susan J. Lacey, Librarian II
>> > Collection Development Department
>> > Miami-Dade Public Library System
>> > 101 West Flagler Street
>> > Miami, Florida 33130
>> > PH: (305)375-5008 FAX: (305)375-3048
>> > laceys@mdpls.org
>> > www.mdpls.org
>> > "Delivering Excellence Every Day"
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: videolib-bounces@library.berkeley.edu
>> > [mailto:videolib-bounces@library.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of
>> Christopher
>> > Lewis
>> > Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 2:46 PM
>> > To: videolib@library.berkeley.edu
>> > Subject: RE: [Videolib] Wired for Retirement
>> >
>> > An interesting nugget of information I heard a speaker mention at
>> > Computers
>> > in Libraries a few weeks is that 40-50% of public library
>> circulation is
>> > from their VHS/DVD/CD collections. That number struck me as remarkably
>> > high. Can it possibly be accurate? If so, why have media librarians
>> > especially in public libraries become expendable? Are these
>> statistics
>> > being pumped up with best-sellers and new releases? Has quality given
>> > way
>> > to quantity? Who guides video collection development in public
>> libraries
>> > without media specialists, the vendors?
>> >
>> > Chris Lewis
>> > Media Librarian/Humanities Collection Manager
>> > American University Library
>> > 202.885.3257
>> > AIM: congolene
>> >
>> > If you have no money, be polite.
>> > - Danish proverb
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > "Blaine Waterman"
>> >
>> > <bwaterman@sfpl.o
>> >
>> > rg>
>> > To
>> > Sent by: <videolib@library.berkeley.edu>
>> >
>> > videolib-bounces@
>> > cc
>> > library.berkeley.
>> >
>> > edu
>> > Subject
>> > RE: [Videolib] Wired for
>> > Retirement
>> >
>> >
>> > 04/06/2005 12:49
>> >
>> > PM
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Please respond to
>> >
>> > videolib@library.
>> >
>> > berkeley.edu
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Gary,
>> > I share your concerns for the profession generally, at least public
>> > libraries. A large chunk of current librarians started in the 70s and
>> > will soon retire. With relentless state and local budget cutting and a
>> > common (mis)perception that the Internet IS a library, I would not be
>> > surprised if many retirees go unreplaced.
>> >
>> > Blaine Waterman
>> > AV Center Librarian
>> > San Francisco Public Library
>> > 100 Larkin Street
>> > San Francisco, CA 94102
>> > (415)557-4461
>> > bwaterman@sfpl.org
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: videolib-bounces@library.berkeley.edu
>> > [mailto:videolib-bounces@library.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Gary
>> Handman
>> > Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 8:14 AM
>> > To: videolib@library.berkeley.edu
>> > Subject: Re: [Videolib] Wired for Retirement
>> >
>> > So, if we're all jumping ship in scant few years, who's gonna mind the
>> > media store?
>> >
>> > This could, indeed, be an interesting thread of discussion.
>> Seriously.
>> > It
>> > seems to me that, despite the enormous impact media has had on global
>> > culture at large, despite the fact that media collections in libraries
>> > are
>> > growing exponentially, the ranks of librarians trained for and
>> assigned
>> > to
>> > selecting and managing media collections have, if anything, diminished
>> > in
>> > the last 30 years. (I go on about this at great lengths in the
>> > introduction to Video Collection Development (Greenwood, 2002), so I
>> > won't
>> > belabor it here)/
>> >
>> > The point is: many of us who came of professional age at the dawn of
>> > the
>> > video revolution in the late 1970s are now of an age where we're
>> > pondering
>> > the big R. I fret periodically about training for future media
>> > librarians;
>> > I fret even more about the tendency of libraries to feel that format
>> > specialization among professionals is either not needed or not
>> > affordable.
>> >
>> > ******
>> >
>> > OK, on another tact. In skimming over the latest issue of American
>> > Libraries yesterday, I noticed at least THREE articles having to do
>> with
>> >
>> > intellectual freedom challenges to videos or to broadcast programming.
>> > I
>> > would really like to see the Video Round Table consider getting more
>> > involved with the ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom as an advocacy
>> > body. Seems to me that VRT could be doing a lot more to assert
>> national
>> >
>> > leadership in media matters. The Notables are one wonderful way that
>> > we've
>> > moved in this direction. I think VRT could be doing more.
>> >
>> > Gary Handman
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > At 08:23 AM 4/6/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>> >> We have phased retirement by contract here at USF which I plan to do.
>> > Anyone
>> >> else have phased retirement at their institutions?
>> >>
>> >> Jerry
>> >>
>> >>
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>> > Gary Handman
>> > Director
>> > Media Resources Center
>> > Moffitt Library
>> > UC Berkeley
>> > ghandman@library.berkeley.edu
>> > http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC
>> >
>> > ****
>> >
>> > "Movies are poems, a holy bible, the great mother of us."
>> > --Ted Berrigan
>> >
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>> Jessica Rosner
>> Kino International
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