Amanda Timolat (speaker), Christine Fischer (speaker), Elizabeth Stanley (speaker), Jim Davis (speaker), Michael Waldman (speaker)
Transcript of Let’s Talk About Streaming: Providing the Resources that Faculty and Students Request
1. Lets Talk About Streaming: Providing the Resources that
Faculty and Students Request Christine Fischer Michael Waldman
Amanda Timolat Jim Davis Elizabeth Stanley
2. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Public
university, established 1891 14,000 undergraduates 3,000 graduate
students 77 masters programs; 28 doctoral programs Carnegie
Foundation classification Research University with High Research
Activity
3. uncg.libguides.com/streamingfilms
4. Streaming Film Issues Courses offered online Rights to
foreign feature films Low response rate from distributors Prefer to
use the whole film, not just segments Funding Tracking rights
5. Some Answers & Decisions Gather the right people Contact
experts Pilot an effort to see outcomes Make policy decisions And
next, public performance rights giving faculty the leads they
need
6. Baruch College, CUNY Public Institution 13,700
undergraduates 3,600 graduates 3 Schools: Business School School of
Public Affairs School of Arts and Sciences
7. Media @ Baruch Pre-streaming Academic departments
Budget
8. Issues Locating Rights Holders Educating Distributors
Technical issues Time Management Educating Faculty
9. Locating film rights: Some major issues include: No US
distributor found US distribution rights expired Domestic
distributor does not own the streaming rights Distributors may have
no experience with educational streaming sales and practices
IMDB.com is your new best friend use this resource to locate
production companies and producers, when all else fails they often
hold the rights Always do a web search for your films, occasionally
they are already freely available online
10. Working with and educating Faculty and IT support Why we
need the get rights - copyright issues Communication ticket
tracking system Encoding with Subtitles Encoding from PAL different
aspect ratio that NTSC Time frames Advance time to locate the
rights Time to make the purchase Time to get the film published
Digitizing, encoding and publishing the streaming film Time to
preview and troubleshoot
11. E-reserve master list of streaming films visible only to
administrators User interface shows the embedded film which is
resizable to full screen with a visible time count
12. Academic streaming source for social issue and documentary
film Streams content from leading distributors Over 375 titles and
growing Entering our second year
13. http://docuseek2.com
14. Streaming Rationale 24/7 availability from on-campus or off
Multiple viewers at same time No physical media to track No
physical media that will break or scratch Add-on benefits:
interactive transcripts, embedding in course pages, clips,
etc.
15. Streaming issues For the library: Where to host? On-site,
off-site or distributor IT support Discoverability Bandwidth
Subscription maintenance Cost
16. Streaming issues: What do customers want? It to work On +
off-campus access (authentication) Variety of license options
Linking / embedding options Cataloging support (e.g. MARC records)
Added-benefit tools (e.g. interactive transcripts, clipping) Closed
captioning
17. Pros/cons of going Distributor Pros: Minimal messing with
technical end Added-benefit tools usually available Extras like
cataloging info, captions, search platform Cleared rights Cons:
Loss of flexibility and control Cost of licenses is usually not a
big factor here.
18. Founded in 1973, Bullfrog Films is the oldest and largest
publisher of DVDs and films about the environment in the United
States. Leading US Publisher of Independent Documentaries 900+
titles in the areas of environmental and social sciences Public
Performance Rights and Digital Streaming Licenses available New
digital streaming portal: Docuseek2
19. The Bullfrog Films online catalog
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com
20. New Releases
21. Digital Streaming Licenses from Bullfrog Films &
Docuseek2 Digital Streaming Licenses from Bullfrog Films You host
on your server For one course, one semester, or 1 5 years Digital
Streaming Licenses for Bullfrog titles on Docuseek 2 We host! For
one week, one semester, or 1 3 years Prices for Streaming Licenses
depend on the length of use and the size of the purchasing college
/ university.
22. Whos On First? Whats on Second? Streaming conversations
begin with faculty or librarians discovery Decision makers:
electronic resource librarians, reserves coordinators Legal
departments review licenses, check terms IT departments digitize
and load onto servers for access Students can now view streaming
videos from Bullfrog Films
23. We can stream! You can stream! Launched by Bullfrog Films
and Icarus Films, Docuseek2 features 400 titles for streaming, with
more titles added all the time. Content viewable anytime, anywhere,
on-campus or off Docuseek2 can be integrated into course management
systems for easy access. Best choice: 1-year subscription to the
complete collection
24. Contact Information Jim Davis - jd@docuseek2.com Christine
Fischer - cmfische@uncg.edu Elizabeth Stanley -
elizabeth@bullfrogfilms.com Amanda Timolat
amanda.timolat@baruch.cuny.edu Michael Waldman
michael.waldman@baruch.cuny.edu