River Campus Libraries Creating an Alternative Video and DVD Catalog Nora Dimmock Media Librarian, Multimedia Center Jeff Suszczynski Senior Web Developer

The Multimedia Center

MMC Collections

Responding to our Users  Student Senate representatives ask for help in establishing a DVD collection for recreational viewing  The Senate contributes $10,000 towards the collection  The library agrees to purchase, process and circulate the collection through the Multimedia Center

Student DVD collection

The Back Room

DVDs and Videos  Voyager (WebVoyage) just didn’t cut it  Not browse-able  Cumbersome limits page to work through  UC Berkeley  Created a separate interface  Search by keyword  Browse by title, genre, language, and director  Customized metadata display on results screen  Automated system with data maintained in Voyager

Web Server MS SQL ColdFusion DVDs and Videos Voyager (Library Catalog) Oracle Web OPAC PERL copy Library website user interface Record cleanup in Voyager Scheduled PERL script 1. Parse the MARC record 2. Conditional logic 3. Regular expression cleanup 4. Save flat-text file Scheduled ColdFusion script 1.Import flat-text file 2.Populate SQL database Cold Fusion UI queries SQL

DVDs and Videos (Phase 2)  Need to provide availability information on result selection screen  Copied data not up-to-the minute  Live circulation status on results screen

Web Server MS SQL ColdFusion DVDs and Videos (Phase 2) Voyager (Library Catalog) Oracle Web OPAC PERL Library website user interface Circulation Status 1.SQL query to local database 2.We have BIB and MFHD IDs 3. SQL query to Voyager

DVDs and Videos (etc) “DVDs and Videos” is related to FRBR  Primary language = expression level attribute  Genre = work-level attribute  User needs for metadata  Unknowingly implemented aspects of FRBR

Measuring Success

Can we handle this?

A Few More Numbers…  The current Student DVD collection has 1,866 DVDS  They have circulated a total of 93,475 times!  170 out of 171 students surveyed said the Video DVD collection was a good use of SA funds.

Top 10 DVDs 1.Chocolat 2.English Patient 3.Monster’s Ball 4.Big Lebowski 5.Seven 6.Training Day 7.Spy Game 8.Family Man 9.American Beauty 10.Traffic

River Campus Libraries Creating an Alternative Video and DVD Catalog Nora Dimmock Media Librarian, Multimedia Center Jeff Suszczynski Senior Web Developer