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Policies for Faculty and Staff

The following additional Video Collection policies facilitate classroom use of the collection by Carnegie Mellon faculty and teaching staff.

• Reserving a video

• Permanent Reserves

• Flagging a video

• Previewing a video

• Borrowing videos for classroom use

• Teaching assistants

Reserving a Video

Faculty may place videos that are being used in their classes "on reserve." This means that the video will not be available to other faculty for overnight (preview) use. However, other faculty can use the video for classes and, of course, it can be used in the video viewing area. Class reserves are marked with a red dot in the Video List binders, at the video desk.

Permanent Reserves

Some video materials (typically expensive, fragile, or irreplaceable items) are designated as being on "permanent reserve." These materials may be used in class and in the viewing area but are not available for overnight faculty preview. Permanent reserves are marked with a green dot in the Video List binders, at the video desk.

Permanent reserves: A list of the materials that are currently on permanent reserve.

Flagging a Video

Faculty may "flag" an item for class use. This means that the faculty member forsees the use of materials in class on a certain date. Video Collection employees will ensure that the video is available for use during the specified time.

Previewing a Video

Faculty members may borrow up to two videos overnight, to preview them for class. Laserdiscs and DVDs may not be borrowed overnight under any circumstances. Permanent reserve materials may not be borrowed overnight. Semester reserve materials may only be borrowed overnight by the faculty member who placed them on reserve.

Borrowing Videos for Classroom Use

Faculty members are permitted to borrow up to four items from the collection for same-day class use. A feature film that spans two videotapes may count as one item, but separate episodes of multi-part documentaries count as one each.

Staff and Teaching Assistants

Staff and Teaching assistants (TAs) may not borrow videos for overnight preview, but may pick up materials for same-day class use. The primary instructor of the course must inform the Video Collection Manager (Jeff Hinkelman, 268-6075 or jh51@andrew.cmu.edu) ahead of time of the course number, items required, and the name of the proxy who will be picking up the materials.

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