Managing streaming video: A new role for technical services

Eng, Sidney; Hernández, Flor Adelia Torres

doi:10.1016/j.lcats.2006.10.001

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“…With the rapid increase in CMS on college campuses, the mechanisms and practices for delivering course-integrated, electronically-licensed library materials take on new levels of complexity. Additional areas of concern include proper handling of emerging new media formats (Eng, 2006), as well as recent legal activity at Cornell University (Bridges, 2007) and Georgia State (Albanese, 2008).…”

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E-Reserves in Transition: Exploring New Possibilities in E-Reserves Service Delivery

Goodson

Frederiksen

2011

Journal of Interlibrary Loan,Document Delivery & Electronic

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Nearly all academic libraries offer course reserves and most have long considered it a core library service. However, expanding use of course management systems in academia have opened new opportunities for libraries interested in exploring changes to electronic reserves services. Budget constraints and staffing shortages have also led several institutions to consider eliminating or modifying their e-reserves operations. Potentially difficult challenges, however, also accompany making significant changes to often well-established practices.This environmental scan of selected academic libraries across the United States discusses institutions which have maintained the status quo in e-reserves services, as well as those who have changed or discontinued these services. The article also provides insight on why some of the latter decided to make these changes.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

E-Reserves in Transition: Exploring New Possibilities in E-Reserves Service Delivery

Goodson

Frederiksen

2011

Journal of Interlibrary Loan,Document Delivery & Electronic

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“…Finally, there are a few libraries that have taken on the time-consuming and enormous task of digitizing videos and storing them on their own servers. Eng and Hernandez (2006) found that digitizing a community college’s VHS collection was compatible to the traditional tasks of its technical services department. Because most of the cataloging tasks were being outsourced to a centralized service area, the technical services staff had time to digitize the collection and make it available to students who could not come to the library during regular business hours.…”

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confidence: 99%

To stream or not to stream?

Morris

Currie

2016

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Purpose The University of Kansas (KU) libraries has faced increased requests for streaming video in the past five years. While we have provided access to many databases of films, feature films remained a problem. To write a collection development policy, the library undertook three investigations to ensure the outcome reflected the needs of the university. Design/methodology/approach Film titles included in Swank 300 and Criterion-on-Demand were checked against the CanIStream. it? website to check for availability through streaming, rental or purchase services. Student library users were surveyed to determine if they had streaming subscriptions and, if so, which ones. KU librarians also examined academic library collection development polices to understand how others have addressed this issue. Findings More than half of the feature films provided by the two vendors are available through subscriptions, renting or purchasing methods. A majority of students subscribe to one or more of these services. Many academic libraries are deciding not to provide streaming feature films. Originality/value There are no previous studies on students’ subscriptions to streaming services linked to availability of feature films offered from commercial vendors to libraries.

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“…In 2006, Eng and Hernandez described the challenges associated with the technological aspects of streaming, such as maintaining a server and deciding which video player to support. 5 Technical issues are abundant in recent literature as well, most notably the decision of who will host and stream the content. While many distributors offer a streaming platform to deliver content, many others do not.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Full Stream Ahead: Designing a Collection Development Workflow for Streaming Video Content

Wahl¹

2017

LRTS

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Academic libraries face many challenges in collecting and maintaining streaming videos, particularly as demand for this unique format continues to increase. At the Oviatt Library at California State University, Northridge, it was determined that streaming video activity needed to be examined and that there was a strong need to develop a workflow for incoming video requests. A Video Streaming Decision Tree Committee composed of librarians and staff from various units within the library including collection development, acquisitions, cataloging, and music and media. Its charge was to create a decision tree workflow for incoming streaming video requests. The committee designed and implemented a detailed decision tree that accounts for many of the complexities of streaming video. This paper discusses various factors involved with collection development for streaming video and provides a detailed description of the committee’s workflow for the format.

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Managing streaming video: A new role for technical services

Cited by 15 publications

References 9 publications

E-Reserves in Transition: Exploring New Possibilities in E-Reserves Service Delivery

E-Reserves in Transition: Exploring New Possibilities in E-Reserves Service Delivery

To stream or not to stream?

Full Stream Ahead: Designing a Collection Development Workflow for Streaming Video Content

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