Amanda Timolat (speaker), Christine Fischer (speaker), Elizabeth Stanley (speaker), Jim Davis (speaker), Michael Waldman (speaker)

1. Let’s Talk About Streaming:
Providing the Resources that
Faculty and Students Request
Christine Fischer
Michael Waldman
Amanda Timolat
Jim Davis
Elizabeth Stanley

2. The University of North Carolina at
Greensboro
 Public university, established 1891
 14,000 undergraduates
 3,000 graduate students
 77 master’s programs; 28 doctoral
programs
 Carnegie Foundation classification
Research University with High Research
Activity

3. uncg.libguides.com/streamingfilms

4. Streaming Film Issues
Courses offered online
Rights to foreign feature films
Low response rate from distributors
Prefer to use the whole film, not just
segments
 Funding
 Tracking rights
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5. Some Answers & Decisions
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Gather the right people
Contact experts
Pilot an effort to see outcomes
Make policy decisions
And next, public performance rights …
giving faculty the leads they need

6. Baruch College, CUNY
• Public Institution
• 13,700 undergraduates
• 3,600 graduates
• 3 Schools:
– Business School
– School of Public Affairs
– School of Arts and Sciences

7. Media @ Baruch
• Pre-streaming
• Academic departments
• Budget

8. Issues
• Locating Rights Holders
• Educating Distributors
• Technical issues
• Time Management
• Educating Faculty

9. Locating film rights:
Some major issues include:
• No US distributor found
• US distribution rights expired
• Domestic distributor does not own the
streaming rights
• Distributors may have no experience with
educational streaming sales and practices
 IMDB.com is your new best friend
use this resource to locate production companies
and producers, when all else fails they often hold
the rights
 Always do a web search for your
films, occasionally they are already freely
available online

10. Working with and educating Faculty and
IT support
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Why we need the get rights - copyright issues
Communication – ticket tracking system
Encoding with Subtitles
Encoding from PAL – different aspect ratio that NTSC
Time frames
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Advance time to locate the rights
Time to make the purchase
Time to get the film published
Digitizing, encoding and publishing the streaming film
Time to preview and troubleshoot

11. E-reserve master list of
streaming films – visible
only to administrators
User interface shows the
embedded film which is
resizable to full screen with
a visible time count

12.  Academic streaming
source for social issue and
documentary film
 Streams content from
leading distributors
 Over 375 titles and
growing
 Entering our second year

13. http://docuseek2.com

14. Streaming Rationale
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24/7 availability from on-campus or off
Multiple viewers at same time
No physical media to track
No physical media that will break or scratch
Add-on benefits: interactive
transcripts, embedding in course
pages, clips, etc.

15. Streaming issues
For the library:
 Where to host? On-site, off-site or distributor
 IT support
 Discoverability
 Bandwidth
 Subscription maintenance
 Cost

16. Streaming issues:
What do customers want?
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It to work
On + off-campus access (authentication)
Variety of license options
Linking / embedding options
Cataloging support (e.g. MARC records)
Added-benefit tools (e.g. interactive
transcripts, clipping)
 Closed captioning

17. Pros/cons of going Distributor
Pros:
 Minimal messing with technical end
 Added-benefit tools usually available
 Extras like cataloging info, captions, search
platform
 Cleared rights
Cons:
 Loss of flexibility and control
Cost of licenses is usually not a big factor here.

18. Founded in 1973, Bullfrog Films is the oldest
and largest publisher of DVDs and films about
the environment in the United States.
 Leading US Publisher of Independent
Documentaries
 900+ titles in the areas of environmental
and social sciences
 Public Performance Rights and
Digital Streaming Licenses available
 New digital streaming portal: Docuseek2

19. The Bullfrog Films online catalog
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com

20. New Releases

21. Digital Streaming Licenses
from Bullfrog Films & Docuseek2
Digital Streaming Licenses from Bullfrog Films
• You host on your server
• For one course, one semester, or 1 – 5 years
Digital Streaming Licenses for Bullfrog titles
on Docuseek 2
• We host!
• For one week, one semester, or 1 – 3 years
Prices for Streaming Licenses depend on the length of use
and the size of the purchasing college / university.

22. Who’s On First? What’s on Second?
 Streaming conversations begin with faculty or librarians’
discovery
 Decision makers: electronic resource librarians, reserves
coordinators
 Legal departments review licenses, check terms
 IT departments digitize and load onto servers for access
 Students can now view streaming videos from
Bullfrog Films

23. We can stream! You can stream!
 Launched by Bullfrog Films and Icarus Films, Docuseek2
features 400 titles for streaming, with more titles
added
all the time.
 Content viewable anytime, anywhere, on-campus or off
 Docuseek2 can be integrated into course management
systems for easy access.
 Best choice: 1-year subscription to the complete
collection

24. Contact Information
Jim Davis - jd@docuseek2.com
Christine Fischer - cmfische@uncg.edu
Elizabeth Stanley - elizabeth@bullfrogfilms.com
Amanda Timolat – amanda.timolat@baruch.cuny.edu
Michael Waldman – michael.waldman@baruch.cuny.edu