[Publib] Television Series DVDs

[Eric Norton]

We don't purchase a lot of television shows here at McMillan but other 
libraries in our system do.  They all seem to circulate each disc 
separately, so a show with six discs for a season would circulate as six 
different items.  Part of the logic of this, beyond making circulation look 
better, has to be that many people won't watch an entire season's worth of 
episodes in the brief circulation period for DVDs.  This lets patron A 
check out disc 1 and spend a few evenings watching the contents while 
patron B can be watching disc 2 during the same time period.  I would think 
that theft wouldn't be as much of an issue as well because it would be 
difficult for any one patron to collect an entire season and individual 
discs (unless they have a particular amazing episode) aren't particularly 
valuable by themselves.



Eric Norton
Head of Adult Services
McMillan Memorial Library
490 E. Grand Ave.
Wisconsin Rapids WI 54494
715-422-5135
enorton at scls.lib.wi.us

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