The devil in the details: An academic library acquires a video collection |
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| Institution: | Cape Peninsula University of Technology, PO Box 1906, Bellville 7530, South Africa;School of Information, San Jose State University, One Washington Square, San Jose, CA 95192-0029, United States;The University of Alabama, Box 870266, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA;1101 McKeldin Library, 7649 Library Ln., University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, United States |
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| Abstract: | What happened when an educational video collection arrived on an academic library's doorstep? Decisions about cataloging, processing, shelving, and circulation inevitably followed, but equally important was providing uninterrupted access for the collection's borrowers. Although the relocation plan devised by the library director and circulation librarian retained the “new” collection's unique classification scheme and kept it shelved apart from the library's video collection for at least 1 year, after Technical Services librarians joined the discussion, they proposed immediate and full integration. Their strategy included extensive communication with the videos' borrowers as the collection arrived in the library. Relocating the videos to the library dramatically improved access and circulation. |
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