• We can no longer honor advanced holds. Please request video/DVDs within 5 working days of the date you want them. Requests sent in advance may not be fulfilled.
• Video/DVDs will be sent out to the schools weekly, not daily. To ensure that you receive your video/DVDs on the Friday, please make your request by the Wednesday before.
• The check-out period for a video/DVD is 7 days. Please return video/DVDs to your librarian so they can be returned to the ESC as soon as you are finished with them.
• We urge you to consider using United Streaming for quality educational resources that you can download to your computer. We would be happy to have someone show you how to search, save, and download videos as well as how to use your computer and projector to show videos in class. Check with your librarian for training or for a referral.

Why these changes are necessay

As you are aware, the district had to find ways to reduce about $11 million from its budget for the current school year. These reductions included loss of staffing in the Instructional Media Department. Additionally, other positions at the ESC were eliminated and the work of these people were moved to current personnel.

The Video/DVD Library services were moved to Diane Martineau in Teaching and Learning. We no longer have the capacity to provide the same level of service to the schools with these cuts. We know that these changes will create difficulty for some teachers, but hopefully by working together, we can still find ways to provide important resources to students.