A. Audiovisual equipment that may be used in, or borrowed from, the library includes:

Equipment may be checked out and used for academic or other college related activities only. The circulation period is one day. Longer borrowing periods can be arranged with the approval of the Library Director or the Assistant to the Director. Students must have a faculty/staff sponsor to borrow the equipment for class projects or campus organization functions. Borrower must present their Bridgewater ID at the time of checkout. Borrower is responsible for making reservations, picking up and returning the equipment. Check the Alexander Mack Library Reservation Calendar for availability

• Equipment is barcoded and the location is indicated in the catalog. Items are checked out according to the library’s reserve checkout procedures, with the exception of retaining ID cards.
• Faculty may reserve equipment by calling the Circulation Manager (x5413).
• Students checking out equipment must present a signed letter from their sponsoring faculty or staff member.

B. Laminating services are available to the faculty, students and staff of Bridgewater College. Laminating is done once a week on Fridays and will be available for pick up the following Monday. The cost of laminating is $1.00 per linear foot, or fraction thereof. There is a maximum width of 11 inches and a maximum length of 18 inches.

C. Audio, videotape, and DVD duplication is available upon request for faculty and students’ course work. DVDs are available in RW format only. Faculty members may either bring their own recording media, or purchase at cost from the library.

Off-Air Television Recordings will be done for faculty members only, in compliance with federal fair use guidelines as follows:

• Only programs freely broadcast may be recorded. Delivery to the receiving set may be by cable or satellite, but it must originate as a broadcast. It cannot be a program from a premium cable or satellite channel. (Channels 3-13 only)
• The recording must be used in the classroom within ten instructional days of the recording. It may be shown a second time when instructional reinforcement is necessary. The faculty member may keep the recording for a maximum period of forty-five days for evaluation only. The recording must then be erased or destroyed. The responsibility of erasing or destroying the recording resides with the faculty member.

Guidelines for Off-Air Recording of Broadcast Programming for Educational Purposes
(HR 97-495: 8-9)

The guidelines were developed to apply only to off-air recording by nonprofit educational institutions.

• A broadcast program may be recorded off-air simultaneously with broadcast transmission (including simultaneous cable retransmissions) and retained by a nonprofit educational institution for a period not to exceed the first forty-five consecutive calendar days after date of recording. Upon conclusion of such retention period, all off-air recordings must be erased or destroyed immediately. "Broadcast programs" are television programs transmitted by television stations for reception by the general public without charge.
• Off-air recordings may be used once by individual teachers in the course of relevant teaching activities, and repeated once only when instructional reinforcement is necessary in classrooms and similar places devoted to instruction within a single bundling, formalized home instruction, during the first ten consecutive school days in the forty- five calendar day retention period. "School days" are school session days-not counting weekends, holidays, vacations, examination periods, or other scheduled interruptions within the forty-five calendar-day retention period.
• Off-air recordings may be made only at the request of and used by individual teachers, and may not be regularly recorded in anticipation of requests. No broadcast program may be recorded off-air more than once at the request of the same teacher, regardless of the number of times the program may be broadcast.
• A limited number of copies may be reproduced from each off-air recording to meet the legitimate needs of teachers under these guidelines. Each additional copy shall be subject to all provisions governing the original recording.
• After the first ten consecutive school days, off-air recordings may be used up to the end of the forty-five calendar retention period only for teacher evaluation purposes, i.e., to determine whether or not to include the broadcast program in the teaching curriculum, and may not be used in the recording institution for student exhibition or any other non-evaluation purpose without authorization.
• Off-air recordings need not be used in their entirety, but the recorded programs may not be altered from their original content. Off-air recordings may not be physically or electronically combined or merged to constitute teachings, anthologies or compilations.
• All copies of off-air recordings must include the copyright notice on the broadcast program as recorded.
• Educational institutions are expected to establish appropriate control procedures to maintain the integrity of these guidelines.