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Streaming Film: How to Serve Our Users Cheryl Cross, Christine Fischer, Cathy Rothermel 14 March 2014

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

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uncg.libguides.com/streamingfilms

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Student Experience with Streaming Online streaming Netflix, Amazon Prime Easy access 24/7 availability Increased use of electronic devices for viewing

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Working with Faculty Using streaming resources already in our collection More online courses More use of flipped classroom model

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Working Out The Details Information from faculty Timing and advanced planning Contact Acquisitions Department Order physical DVD Acquire streaming rights

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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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Some Answers & Decisions Gather the right people Contact experts Pilot an effort to see outcomes Make policy decisions

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Library Policy The library will help facilitate the acquisition of streaming film rights ONLY when the purchase is for perpetual ownership of the streaming film. Any acquisitions of streaming films will be purchased through the department's material budget. In light of restricted budgets, if the streaming film isn't available for permanent ownership then the library will attempt to direct the faculty member toward resources for pricing and purchasing options. Posted on the Streaming Films LibGuide

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Distributor streaming details ordering options

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Providing Access to the Video Files

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Considerations Where to host the files How do the students access the files Must be compliant with the terms of our agreement with the copyright holder

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Youtube Users can download the video easily and save the file Even if it is set to unlisted users can still share the link Can be set to private but have to pre- define users in a list Not secure enough to comply with usage terms for copyrighted material

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Google Drive Can limit users to just people at UNCG with the link (even with the link, have to login) Have to login to Blackboard to access Can set to prevent downloading of the file Meets the requirements of our streaming agreements

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Students Access in Blackboard Consistency - Video is available in the same place as other course content Security - Protected behind the Blackboard login

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Processing the Files Convert the file from the DVD to a file that can be streamed Deliver the file to the instructor Instructor embeds the video in Blackboard

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Rip the DVD Handbrake: Open source video transcoder VLC Player And this file: libdvdcss.dll Creates an MP4 file

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Host on Google Drive Upload MP4 file to Google Drive Share with setting: People at UNCG who have the link Set to Prevent viewers from downloading Share file with instructor and transfer ownership

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Blackboard Instructor obtains embed code from Google Drive Embeds the file in the Blackboard course as an Item under Web Links

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Videos from External Providers We use an in house proxy server to access streaming videos from outside distributers Add as a Web Link in Blackboard with the proxy URL

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Links Handbrake: http://sourceforge.net/projects/handbra ke/files/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/handbra ke/files/ VLC Player: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html has link to this file: libdvdcss.dll

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A related issuePPR Not required Watching film in own home (dorm) Showing a film face-to-face in classroom Public Performance Rights For groups other than a class Where public could attend Educational rights On campus Offered with many instructional films

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Thank you! Cheryl Crosscacross@uncg.educacross@uncg.edu Christine Fischer cmfische@uncg.educmfische@uncg.edu Cathy Rothermelcarother@uncg.educarother@uncg.edu