Streaming Media ILL

As digital resource sharing practices have evolved, so too has the desire to share more types and formats of digital resources. Given the growing shift towards multimedia resource inclusion in the development of syllabi and curriculum, the lending of streaming media resources are a natural progression towards broadening what materials are shared through interlibrary loan. In particular, streaming video has shown promise as the next format for libraries and consortia to explore sharing more broadly. 

 

Streaming Interlibrary Loan Video Resources (SILLVR)

The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (CARL) launched the SILLVR pilot in January 2020 to lend streaming media resources through ILL from two vendors: Films on Demand & Swank Motion Pictures. With a noted increase of streaming media assignments for coursework, the pilot seeked to provide broader access by facilitating requesting and lending through Prospector, the consortium’s union catalog. In lieu of developing a new license with each vendor to allow for the lending of their streaming media resources, CARL and the media platforms developed memorandums of understanding (MOU). These identified the participating parties, planned timelines, workflow outlines, lending terms, and the statistics each party would be responsible for collecting on behalf of the pilot. 

The resources below provide an overview of the pilot, the MOUs used to guide the program, and the locally developed workflows to process streaming media ILL requests. 

▶️ SILLVR Streaming Interlibrary Loan Video Resources Workshop, OhioLINK - 2021

📜 SILLVR: Streaming Interlibrary Loan Video Resources and Accessibility in Multimedia Content: Where Did We Come From, What are We, Where are We Going?, written by DiVittorio, Gaddis, Nelson, Gilstrap, & Sinclair - 2022

📜 SILLVR & Films on Demand MOU - CARL

📜 SILLVR & Swank Pictures MOU - CARL

📜 Streaming Interlibrary Loan Video Resources (SILLVR) Procedures - CARL

 

CDL for Video

Though controlled digital lending (CDL) has predominantly focused on the digitization of print books, its principles and practices have the potential to be applied to other types of materials. The resources below provide introductory insights into broadening access to physical media through the mechanism of CDL. 

🌐 The Application of Controlled Digital Lending for Video, Stream Magazine - 2023

  • A brief exploration of how CDL principles may be applied to video content, highlighting the potential benefits to library users and the unique legal and technical hurdles of digitization that present additional challenges to sharing physical media in this manner.

📜 Controlled Digital Lending of Video Resources: Ensuring the Provision of Streaming Access to Videos for Pedagogical Purposes in Academic Libraries, written by Christian Lear - 2022

  • Though published prior to the Hachette v. Internet Archive rulings, this article contextualizes potential applications of CDL for physical media as a means of expanding pedagogical support with the rise of streaming media in libraries. The article also considers media digitization efforts in accordance with existing U.S. copyright law and exceptions.

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