ITS Media Services and Colby Library Policies: Videos/DVD’s for Classroom Use

 

ITS Media Services and the Colby Libraries are pleased to work together to provide video resources to assist faculty’s classroom instruction.  Librarians are available to assist faculty in identifying video material and procuring items for addition to the Colby media collection.  Media Services staff train faculty in the use of classroom technology and are available for technical assistance. 

 

Beginning in February 2005

Faculty retrieve video material either from the Colby Collections, request a loan from Bates or Bowdoin through Maine Info Net, or initiate a request for purchase or rental. All materials, including rentals are checked out at the Miller Circulation Desk.

 

Faculty are responsible for their own classroom projection.   

 

 

What you need to know and do: Videos/DVDs

 

Videos in the Colby Libraries:

 

·        Place on Reserve

Faculty are urged to place media on Reserve in advance of the show date in order to be assured the material will be available for presentation.  The Faculty member is responsible for the return of the video to the Reserves Desk after showing.

 

·        Checkout from circulating collection

Faculty can instead sign media out under their own borrower’s card for showing, and are encouraged to do so in advance of the show date.  The Faculty member is responsible for the return of the video to the Library after showing.

 

Videos that are in circulation are subject to immediate recall for classroom use.  Library staff will make every attempt to retrieve circulating items, but cannot be held responsible if an item is not returned on time.

 

 

Videos not in the Colby Libraries:

 

·        Purchase:

Videos are purchased for the library within the scope of the library’s collection policies.  Requests for purchase should me made at least eight weeks before the show date and can be made via the Library online acquisition form http://www.colby.edu/library/catalog/materials_request/ or through the faculty member’s library liaison http://www.colby.edu/library/collections/liaison.shtml

 

·        Borrow from Bates and Bowdoin through Maine Info Net

CBB loans:  Videos circulate for one week within CBB via Maine Info Net. Faculty are responsible for requesting the material and should do so about a week in advance. CBB videos are signed out at the Miller Circulation Desk.  Like Colby media loans to Bates and Bowdoin, videos are subject to immediate recall for use by the home institution.

 

·        Rental or Preview

Requests for rental or preview of video materials may be made from Media Services online at: (url here)  Procured items are checked out at the Miller Circulation Desk with a valid library card.

 

IF A FACULTY MEMBER IS NOT GOING TO BE IN ATTENDANCE

A Faculty member who is not going to be in attendance for a showing needs to make her/his own arrangements for video pickup and return to the Circulation Desk or library book drop.  Please remember that Circulation only checks out materials to the cardholder her/himself.  Media Services does not provide pick up and return services.

 

 

 

TRAINING & EQUIPMENT, SCHEDULING, and TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

 

·        Training & Equipment

Media Services provides printed instructions for equipment in each classroom and will soon have this and other materials available on line.  Faculty unfamiliar with use of classroom equipment should make an appointment with Media Services in advance of the showing for training.

 

·        Facilities Scheduling

Requests for facilities other than the faculty member’s own classroom at the regularly scheduled class time may be made on line at www.colby.edu/calendar/request/ or by calling Scheduling and Facilities at x3192.

           

·        Help (x3777)

The Media Services Hot Line is available from 7:45 am to 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday and from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm Monday through Thursday.  The extension is x3777. Please note that the x3777 hotline is for technical assistance only and all other service requests should be made by calling x3306.

Library staff will not be able to provide classroom assistance.

 

Important contact information:

Circulation Miller (x3444); Science (x3313); Bixler (x3232)

Reserves Miller (x3691)

Media Services (x3306)

Scheduling and Facilities (x3192) www.colby.edu/calendar/request/

Media Services Hot Line (x3777)

Library Acquisitions: http://www.colby.edu/library/catalog/materials_request/ (x3290)