“Let the Videos Stream!” - Video

Rick Davis
Copyright Librarian and Head of Resource Sharing
Towson University

Robyn Reed
Outreach and Student Engagement Librarian
Union College Schaffer Library

Mark Sandford
Collections Strategist and Systems Librarian
Colgate University

The panelists for this session are all librarians tasked with finding and acquiring streaming video requested by faculty – one at a large public university in Maryland and two at smaller private institutions in New York. Over the past year, we've been meeting over Zoom to share ideas, celebrate successes, and discuss the challenges that we've faced while doing this work. We'd now like to continue these crucial conversations and broaden the discussion to include you – not just other librarians with similar responsibilities, but anyone with an interest or stake in the relentlessly evolving educational streaming environment: librarians and other library personnel, educators, streaming vendors and licensors, perhaps even filmmakers, distributors, and producers.Following brief introductory remarks, we'll open the floor to discussion on topics such as:

• Selecting/curating streaming video collections and navigating the various acquisition models (PDA, mediated purchase, subscription, etc.)

• Balancing discovery and access to licensed content with cost containment and long-term financial sustainability

• Managing licensed content (renewals, tracking and fixing broken links, titles changing platforms, etc.)

• Asserting our fair use rights for converting and streaming video under appropriate circumstances

• Taking into account the critical issue of educational equity–because not every student has access to a credit card or bank account to watch assigned films on their own via direct-to-consumer streaming platforms or subscription services

• The recent Ithaka S+R research reports, Streaming Media Licensing and Purchasing Practices at Academic Libraries (June 2022) and Teaching with Streaming Video: Understanding Instructional Practices, Challenges, and Support Needs (Jan. 2023). How do their findings and recommendations represent what is happening at your library?