[Eril-l] Kanopy

[Ann Miller]

Like all libraries everywhere, we’re also trying to figure out how to manage Kanopy costs. Here are a couple of things we’ve moved to:


-          Putting Kanopy on “hiatus” over breaks. Existing rentals are available, but all other titles moved to mediated access. We did this over the Christmas/New Years holidays. We’re considering it for the summer.

-          Proxying Kanopy on campus. We began to realize that our community patrons were coming in to the library and watching films. We haven’t gotten complaints from students or faculty about the additional steps.

-          Deactivated “Great Courses” and looking at other possibilities. We like to think we already provide “great courses”. Of course we then immediately had a faculty request one. Oh well.

-          Reviewing use to identify films regularly accessed and then going to a 3-5 year lease for those (in process).

-          Considering a “package” rental for the Criterion Collection for a 3 year lease. We have a Cinema Studies program and we can then promote those for “recreational” viewing. It might save money in the long run.

I do think that the proxying all access to Kanopy has helped greatly. Our reference librarians suggested this and we implemented it in late December. Our January numbers have gone back to “normal” after some alarming spikes in Oct. and Nov. 2018. Even so, my forecasting suggests that costs will continue to increase. We aren’t out of the woods yet!

Ann

Ann E. Miller
Director of Collection Services
University of Oregon Libraries
1299 University of Oregon,
Eugene, OR 97403-1299
U.S.A.
Email: aemiller at uoregon.edu<mailto:aemiller at uoregon.edu>
Phone: 011.541.346.3064
Fax: 011.541.346.3485





From: Eril-l <eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org> On Behalf Of Ingrid Moisil
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2019 12:33 PM
To: eril-l at lists.eril-l.org
Subject: [Eril-l] Kanopy

Good afternoon,

We are contemplating cancelling our unmediated PDA model for Kanopy and have some questions for folks who have more experience with this issue. We’re a large university and are contemplating not to activate the request a video button on the Kanopy site, because we think we’ll be swamped with too many requests to handle. Instead, we would encourage our users to use the “Suggest a purchase” form on our website.

Once the unmediated PDA is in place, what will users actually see if they go to the Kanopy site?
Will they still see the whole list of titles or only the titles we have licensed?
What will be the message they get when they try to play a video?
Will it be different than what a regular person (ie. not someone on campus/vpn/signed in) would see, would it still show something that would indicate we work with Kanopy, but just not let them directly watch.
Is there a way that our users can see only the titles we have licensed?


Many thanks for any help you can provide.

Ingrid

Ingrid Moisil
Bibliothécaire, Stratégie des collections
Collection Strategy Librarian
Bibliothèque de l’Université d’Ottawa | uOttawa Library
ingrid.moisil at uottawa.ca<mailto:ingrid.moisil at uottawa.ca>
Tél. | Tel. : 613 562-5800 poste 8782<tel:613%20562-5800;8782>
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