Wong Audiovisual Center Video and DVD Collection

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Wong Audiovisual CenterVideo and DVD Collection

• LIS 615, Collection Evaluation
• April 12, 2003
• Carrie Vance, Jennifer Beardsley, Vicky Lee, and
  Gayle Hirohata Goto

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Library Background

• January 23, 1987
• Media Resources
• Population Served
• Faculty
• Students
• Staff
• Visitors

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Project Approach

• DVDs
• Videos
• No Audio Collection Evaluation
• No Other Visual Materials

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Collection Evaluation

• Purpose of Evaluation
• Better management
• Strengths/Weaknesses
• Collection-based techniques
• Use-based

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Critique of Collection Feature Films Academy
Award Winners

• 165 Award Winning Titles
• Best Director
• Best Actor
• Best Picture
• Best Actress
• Findings

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Critique of Collection Feature Films
Independent

• Internet Movie Database
• TOP 50
• Findings

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Critique of CollectionFeature Films Asian

• HIFF (http//www.hiff.org)
• Browsing Voyager
• Findings

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Critique of CollectionDocumentaries
Hawaiian/Pacific

• Filmworks Limited
• Hula Source
• Myriahs Polynesian Bazaar

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Critique of CollectionDocumentary Films Academy
Award Winners

• Winners
• Nominees
• IMBb Top 50
• Findings

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Survey

• HLA Spring 2003 Newsletter vol. 43, no. 1
• Meeting the Educational Needs of the Video
  Generation
• Linda Engelberg, Video Librarian

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Survey (cont.)

• Faculty
• Student Learning
• Instructional Use
• Research Use

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Survey (cont.)

• Adequate Coverage?
• Too much of a good thing
• Walking the thin line of a balanced collection
• Areas of Improvement

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Critique of Collection Policy

• Holdings
• Selection Process
• Special Collections
• Limitations
• Deselection/Weeding/Deaccession
• Gifts
• Deficiencies

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Holdings

• 2001 23,000 films and videos
• Parameters
• Language
• Chronology
• Geography
• Date of Publication
• Format

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Selection Process

• To DVD or not to DVD, that is the question
• Access
• Collection Collaboration
• Faculty
• Subject Area Librarians

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Special Collections

• Strengths
• Hawaiian and Pacific Studies
• Asian Studies
• Graphic and performing arts
• Ethnographic materials
• Etc

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Limitations

• Limited resourcesfinite budget
• Space considerations
• Preservation
• Education vs. Entertainment

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Weeding

• Low use
• Rapidly changing fields
• New, more accurate information
• 3-4 year time table

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Gifts

• Criteria
• NO bootleg materials
• Physical quality
• Dont give them your home movies

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Deficiencies

• Somethings to think about
• Overall Great Policy
• Areas to Improve?
• Deselection, its your friend not your foe
• Better organization on the website
• UPDATE!

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Id like to thank all those who made this
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• Internet Movie Database available from
  http//www.imdb.com
• Movies Unlimited available from
  http//www.moviesunlimited.com
• University of California, Los Angelos OPAC
  available from http//www.cinema.ucla.edu/access/d
  atabases.html
• Engelberg, Linda. Meeting the Educational Needs
  of the Video Generation. Hawaii Library
  Newsletter Honolulu. Spring 2003 volume 43,
  number 1.
• http//www-lib.uwyo.edu/cdo/collass.htm

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Questions?

• Contact
• cvance_at_hawaii.edu
• beardsle_at_hawaii.edu
• vickyl_at_hawaii.edu
• gthiroha_at_hawaii.edu