A few months ago there was a “shake up” in our TV Department which oversees the videotape archives out-of-state and at off-site locations. The person now in-charge of these items was unaware of my cataloging activities until a recent conference call from the Marketing Dept. percipitated a discussion of what part of the remaining video archives to catalog next. It all may have been providential since this person was planning on “weeding” items from storage indiscriminately. Doing so to cataloged items without my knowledge would seriously impinge on the quality of our ILS database. I hope I can adequately explain what I have done and its value to our TV department and others before anything happens to the collections without my knowledge. I would hate to lose all the work I have already done and degrade the quality of the database that has been worked on for almost 2 years. Ultimately, the fate of these resources are not in my hands.
