Library Use of Video & Audio, 2011-2012 Edition

Primary Research Group, September 2011, Pages: 74

The report looks closely at how academic, public and special libraries are acquiring and using their video and audio collections. It includes data on price discounts received from vendors of audio/video materials, cataloging trends, budgets, spending on digitization and upgrades to new formats, trends in licensing and performance rights, staff size for AV departments, the influence of emerging mediums such as YouTube and other video sharing sites, the development of library video production facilities and much more.

Among the report's many findings are that:

- 10.64% of video spending by the libraries in the sample was accounted for by video accessed online or streamed.
- A mean of 88.26% of library spending on audio-visual resources comes from the departmental budget of the libraries themselves, while 7.39% comes from non-library departments, 1.01% from grants and endowments, and 3.34% from other sources.
- 34.69% of the libraries surveyed reached licensing deals with video suppliers to legally provide digitized versions of their videos to a range of viewers within their organizations.
- Slightly more than a quarter of the libraries in the sample have a multimedia studio or center at which library patrons can view and edit video and learn about the use of new visual and audio mediums.
- Public libraries have been hit hardest by theft of audio/video materials, with a mean loss of $4,343 over the past three years.
- Suggestions by library patrons accounted for a mean of 36.1% of the materials purchasing decisions by the libraries in the sample.
- Public libraries say that a mean of 15.56% of vendors are open to price negotiation, while academic libraries feel they can negotiate with about 30% of their vendors.

LIST OF TABLES
THE QUESTIONNAIRE
SURVEY PARTICIPANTS
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SAMPLE
SUMMARY OF MAIN FINDINGS
Chapter 1: Expenditure
Chapter 2: Services and Operations
Chapter 3: Audio Resources
Chapter 4: Classroom Capabilities
Chapter 5: Cataloging
Chapter 6: Trends in Usage
Chapter 7: Video Distribution
Chapter 8: Staffing
Chapter 9: Vendor Negotiations

- Alvord Public Library
- Baker College
- Bertha Voyer Memorial Library
- Bronx Community College
- Burlington Public Library
- Canada Manitoba Business Service Centre
- Center for Visual Music
- City of Toronto-Legal Division Library
- Dickinson County Library
- East Baton Rouge Parish Library
- Eastern University
- Elon University School of Law Library
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Hunt Library
- Flathead County Library System
- Gordon Library Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Hillside Public Library
- History San Jose
- Hutchinson Community College
- Middle Tennessee State University
- Midwestern State University
- Minnesota State University, Mankato
- Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library
- Montclair State University
- Montgomery County MD Circuit Court Library
- Mount Saint Mary College Library
- Muscatine Community College
- National Museum of Women in the Arts
- New York School of Interior Design
- Nicholls State University
- Northwest Vista College
- Nova Scotia College of Art & Design University
- NYC College of Technology, CUNY
- Olathe Public Library
- Open University
- Pfeiffer University
- Rochester College
- Royal Roads University
- Saint Cloud State University
- Simpson College
- The Mint Museum
- UC Berkeley, Media Resources Center, Moffitt Library,
- Univ. of San Francisco, Gleeson Library
- University of Baltimore
- University of Illinois Springfield
- University of North Texas Libraries
- University of Utah, Marriott Library
- Utah Valley University
- Viola Public Library
- Washington State University Vancouver
- Williamsburg Regional Library

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