1. River Campus Libraries Creating an Alternative Video and DVD Catalog Nora Dimmock Media Librarian, Multimedia Center ndimmock@library.rochester.edu Jeff Suszczynski Senior Web Developer jeffs@library.rochester.edu

2. The Multimedia Center

3. MMC Collections

4. 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

5. Student DVD collection

6. The Back Room

7. DVDs and Videos Finding DVDs in Voyager (UR’s Library Catalog) just didn’t cut it.  Not browse-able  Cumbersome limits page to work through  Demo

8. DVDs and Videos  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  Demo

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. DVDs and Videos (etc) Based on “DVDs and Videos,” we built another system called “CDs and Sound Recordings” Highlights:  Staff only access to the physical CDs  Record manipulation for ‘Record Store’ subject browsing  Data extraction was similar to “DVDs and Videos”

13. Measuring Success

14. Can we handle this?

15. 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.

16. 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

17. River Campus Libraries Creating an Alternative Video and DVD Catalog Nora Dimmock Media Librarian, Multimedia Center ndimmock@library.rochester.edu Jeff Suszczynski Senior Web Developer jeffs@library.rochester.edu