NJVID is a digital video repository service for streaming and preservation of academic and research videos for higher education.
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History
NJVid started out as a project funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services that aimed at creating a statewide digital video portal and central storage repository in New Jersey. The grant was aimed at providing a common online platform for presenting, accessing, hosting and archiving institutions' licensed and locally produced videos that educate and enlighten viewers in support of online teaching and learning. NJVid was to accommodate three overall collections of videos: locally owned videos that can be viewed and shared by all, commercially licensed videos, and noncommercial videos to which institutions provide members-only access.
Present
Over the years NJVID has reduced the need to acquire hard copies of video titles from commercial video vendors. Doing so will diminish physical video redundancy among Media Centers across the state. This in turn has shortened acquisition time periods, increase access possibilities for end-users, and decrease staff workload and overall institutional expenditures.