Public Libraries
Source: Denver Post
Library books play second fiddle to videos, CDs
From the article, “The good news for movie fans is that their local library looks more and more like a Blockbuster. The ominous news for book fans is the same: As budget-squeezed public libraries rush to buy DVDs for an insatiable public, branches must act more like multimedia centers and less like temples of the printed page…And while they run to keep up with customers flooded with cheap new DVD players this Christmas, Jefferson County [Colorado] libraries already have their eye on the next big thing: Song and video downloads, without a hard copy, that may have consumers walking into a branch asking where they can plug in their MP3 player…’So many of us are attached to the text, and the paper, and the binding. It’s so tactile,’ said Beth Elder, senior collection specialist for Denver Public Library. ‘But many of our customers are leaving text behind.” The article also contains a statistical chart.

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