Abstract
This article examines a current crisis within media librarianship regarding the challenges for academic libraries in providing streaming access to video resources despite the growing need for users to have streaming access. The article discusses this crisis largely within the context of COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease of 2019) and how the pandemic has exacerbated the problem. This article also posits a possible solution to the issue through the application of controlled digital lending (CDL) to video resources for a pedagogical purpose. The article demonstrates the extent of the crisis, examines how other media librarians have addressed the problem, and shows the limitations to the solutions that have so far been offered. It then broadly discusses the concept of CDL and how this practice could be applied to video resources to address the frequent inability of libraries to provide streaming access to videos.
Highlights
It is commonly acknowledged that delivery and consumption methods for films and television series undergo major transformations roughly every generation due to technological changes (King, 2014, p. 295)
Broadly defined in this article as any librarian or library staff member whose work deals with the acquisition and delivery of this content in academic libraries, must find ways to deliver streaming access to users when video content is needed for instruction
The growing inaccessibility of physical formats due to the lack of these media players makes it less feasible to ask roughly 200 students to share access to one or two digital video discs (DVD)’s provided by the library, even without the presence of a global pandemic that limits physical loans. This is due to the lack of availability of physical media players as well as the fact that more instructors are recognizing the pedagogical value of video resources, which is demonstrated by the significant rise in streaming video usage
Summary
It is commonly acknowledged that delivery and consumption methods for films and television series undergo major transformations roughly every generation due to technological changes (King, 2014, p. 295). The presence of disc drives on personal computers has become far less common in recent years, contributing to the diminishing accessibility of physical formats This lack of availability of media players does not meet the copyright statute’s definition of “obsolescence,” when coupled with the very large class sizes of many colleges and universities, it does render DVD and Blu-ray discs practically obsolete.. The growing inaccessibility of physical formats due to the lack of these media players makes it less feasible to ask roughly 200 students to share access to one or two DVD’s provided by the library, even without the presence of a global pandemic that limits physical loans This is due to the lack of availability of physical media players as well as the fact that more instructors are recognizing the pedagogical value of video resources, which is demonstrated by the significant rise in streaming video usage.
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