Stream it! Providing a Video Reserves Service at UT Austin Georgia Harper Scholarly Communications Advisor University of Texas Libraries The University of Texas at Austin Laura Schwartz Head Librarian, Fine Arts Library University of Texas Libraries The University of Texas at Austin May 24, 2012

Four hurdles Creating an infrastructure Selecting the right equipment Deciding when to license, when to rely on fair use, and when to send students to commercial vendors Identifying appropriate staff to do the work

Case Studies James Madison University University of North Texas

Two approaches Purchasing commercially available packages Developing and serving local content

Need and demand: two scenarios Scenario 1: purchase/license the streaming file Scenario 2: create the streaming file yourself

Challenges or Hurdles Deciding when to license, when to rely on fair use, and when to send students to commercial vendors Creating an infrastructure Selecting the right equipment Identifying appropriate staff to do the work

Bibliography Association of Research Libraries. Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries. January use.pdf. use.pdf You ought to be in pictures: bringing streaming video to your library. April 18, Sponsored by Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS). Increasing Faculty Usage of Streaming Video: A Webcast. April 26, Sponsored by Alexander Street Press and Library Journal. streaming-video/. streaming-video/ Young, Jeffrey R. Across more classes, video makes the grade Chronicle of Higher Education. May 8, Videos/127422/. Videos/127422/ Cambridge University Press; Oxford University Press; Sage Publications v. Georgia St. University, available at

Questions Georgia Harper, Scholarly Communications Advisor, UT Austin, Laura Schwartz, Fine Arts Library, UT Austin,