Information for Faculty
Borrowing videos | Scheduling videos | Video course reserves
Teaching collection | Recommend a video | Faculty from other campuses
Borrowing videos from the UW Libraries
If you are on the UW Tacoma campus and would like to use a video from the Media Collection, please bring the title and call number of the video to the Circulation Desk. Our staff will retrieve the video and check it out to you. You can borrow the video for 3 days, with 3 renewals. When finished with the video, return it to the Circulation Desk.
If you would like to borrow a video from the UW Seattle Media Center or the Bothell Media Center, you can page it through the UW Library Catalog using the "Request/Place Hold" function, fill out our online scheduling form, or send an email to taclibav@u.washington.edu. Some Bothell videos can only be requested through our online scheduling form or by email taclibav@u.washington.edu.
Scheduling videos for classroom use
To ensure that videos are available to show in your class, schedule them in advance by either submitting a request through our on-line scheduling form or by sending an email to taclibav@u.washington.edu.
If you send an email, include your name, the video title(s) and call number(s), the class, and the date(s) and time(s) you need the videos. Allow at least 24 hours to schedule a video from the UW Tacoma Media Collection. A video requested from another campus requires at least one week advance notice. You will receive an email when the video is be ready for you to pick up at the Circulation Desk, generally at least one day prior to the date of your class.
Similar to books, videos can be placed on course reserve. Videos on course reserve are checked out for library use only, except when the faculty member who placed them on reserve needs to use one in a class. Because these titles do not circulate out of the library, students are given increased access to high-use, class-related videos. You may place videos shown in class on course reserve through our online scheduling form or by sending an email with the titles of the videos to taclibav@u.washington.edu. Videos will be placed on video course reserve for up to one quarter.
Add a video to the teaching collection
Faculty can place videos they use regularly in the Teaching Collection, a selection of titles within the Media Collection only available for classroom use. To add videos to the Teaching Collection, please send an email with the title and call number to taclibav@u.washington.edu.
Since many of our videos are available to through the Summit Catalog, faculty may also request high use videos to be only available for local check out. This Excel spreadsheet lists all of the Media Collection videos restricted to local use use only.
Recommend a video for the Media Collection
If you would like to recommend a video to be added to the Media Collection, you can use our recommendation form or send an email to jwadland@u.washington.edu. Please indicate whether you'd like the video to be added to the library-use only Teaching Collection. The Reference Librarian responsible for the Media Collection reviews all requests and makes decisions based upon the UWT Library Media Collection Development Policy.
Faculty from another UW campus who would like to borrow videos from the Media Collection should contact their local media center, whose staff will coordinate the inter-library exchange of items. The Media Center handles circulation and is the primary collection of media on the UW Seattle campus, while the Campus Media Center serves the UW Bothell/Cascadia Campuses.
