I buy any movies that are favorably reviewed in Video Librarian, School Library
Journal, and other standard review sources--just like I buy books with reviews in
those sources. Of course, I consider curriculum and budget and community standards
and selection policy. The important thing is that all video and DVD materials are
put out on the open shelves, just like books. There aren't any movies lurking in
the closet, kept hidden from the students. Six years ago when I hauled all the
videos out of the closet and started putting them on the open shelves with the
books, I asked the whole faculty to tell me which videos needed to be reserved for
instructional purposes only. ONE teacher reserved ONE video, and she has, over the
last six years, lifted that restriction everytime a student has asked her. My 18
years experience is that the argument that we HAVE to reserve videos for
instruction is bogus. The kids aren't going to check out the physics videos anyway,
and the teacher
s don't have precious instructional time to be showing entertainment videos in
class (besides it being against the law). If they do, the kids are certainly seen
them before anyway--not because I put them out on the shelves. If I have
entertainment videos reserved for teacher use, I figure I'm encouraging copyright
violations.
As I rule I don't purchase R-rated movies without a lot of consideration, a
WHOLE lot of consideration. PG-13 is fine with me and my community.
---
Donna Cook, Nacogdoches, Texas :
Teacher Librarian Central High;
District Library Coordinator, Central ISD;
donnacook@lycos.com
936-853-9345 (work)
936-569-2426 (home)
"Books are the holes in the fences of life"--Peg Kehret
--------- Original Message ---------
DATE: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 10:33:52
From: L Stahl <readingranch@YAHOO.COM>
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Cc:
>Hi All! I have a couple of quick questions for you about the movies in your
>collection.
>
>1. Do you keep movies other than educational ones in your collection? Any
>Disney? other studios?
>
>2. What is your policy regarding the purchase of said movies? Are they purchased
>by the English Dept and then "donated" to the library or do you buy them out of
>library funds?
>
>3. What is your policy regarding the purchase and showing of movies that are NOT
>rated G? What about Disney and other such productions?
>
>Thanks for your time - I am looking at our policy and wondered how it compared!
>
>
>Lacy Stahl
>Librarian
>Ingram Tom Moore High School
>510 College Street
>Ingram, TX 78025
>readingranch@yahoo.com
>
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