Many thanks to all who responded to my query re how to handle 18+ material.
Comments:-
* Keep 18+ material behind the Issue Desk and either check IDs (have
date of birth on cards) or have the date of birth on the circulation record.
* Users weren't allowed to watch the material in the Library but had to
borrow
* Film and Media Sudies users were allowed to borrow the material,
regardless of age if their parents/guardians had signed a letter of consent
* Totors let parents/guardians know that 18+ material is on the
curriculum and ask for letters of consent for studnets to watch the material
* Restrict borrowing to staff. Users have to watch material in the Library
* Indicate certification on the catalogue entry, along with notes on
explicit language or visuals, so that users know what they're going to watch
* LMS allows traps/pop-up dialogue boxes on resources which are
triggered when they are issued.
* use red stickers to mark this material
* hold all 18+ material in the departments, thus passing the buck!
* Material available on request only and restricted to certain
categories of user
* British Board of Film Classification's reply to a similar query from
an organisation : "'18' videos should not be supplied to any
* students under 18 or you could be in breach of the Video Recordings
Act. Ideally, proof of age should be requested in order to cover
yourselves.Who subsequently sees the video is not legally a matter of
concern, only to whom it is rented at the point of supply."
but also
* BBFC. Under the 1984 Video Recordings Act it is an offence for us
(the Library) to supply certificate 18 videos to students under the age of
18. However, there is no legal reason why the students should not see the
videos for the purpose of their course if their parents permit them to do so.
* nobody had a solution for open access material, including 18+ titles,
being freely available to under-18 users, but the concensus was that, so
long as the material was clearly identified, the library wasn't liable for
users choosing to watch it on library machines
Jennifer
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Jennifer Beavan
Reader Services Manager
Queen Mother Library, University of Aberdeen
Meston Walk AB24 3UE
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