2017 Charleston Library Conference

Renew Publishing Consultants and GVPi, a digital publishing solutions company, have recently invited the scholarly and professional communications community to share their views and plans for incorporating streaming video content into their websites and publishing platforms.
Although many publishers, societies and academic libraries are in the process of exploring ways to incorporate video content into their websites and publishing platforms, whether as new product lines, for teaching, or to offer more value to existing products and services, we hear that many are unsure about how to go about developing a video strategy whilst others have a clear idea of what they need and are in the process of implementing video content. Therefore, we thought it would be useful to survey the current state and thinking about streaming video, and have issued a survey aiming at finding out from publishers, scholarly societies, professional associations and academic libraries where they are in their video development plans, what they see as the main challenges and barriers to delivering video content online, and what opportunities they think streaming video offers. Our talk will address some of the challenges of streaming video content and include some case studies.