[Publib] Re: Television Series DVDs

[Susan McGowan]

Our suburban Chicago public library discontinued purchase of TV  
series DVDs for the very reasons you mention.
On Aug 2, 2006, at 10:06 AM, publib-request at webjunction.org wrote:

> I am concerned about this. We are beginning to spend a very large
> portion of our AV budget on these boxed sets, and we are getting fewer
> titles to circulate (as they check out together as a set). This is
> causing a slight dip in circulation statistics. Also we are having
> problems with many of these sets (particularly Oz and the Sopranos)
> being checked out and never returned. It is thus possible for a  
> customer
> to check out about $400 worth of material from our collection and  
> never
> return it. (Our current policy is 7 DVDs, which can include 7 TV  
> series
> boxed sets.)
>
> A possible solution seems to stop purchasing most TV series boxed sets
> and focus on purchasing more copies of popular movies (we tend to get
> only 2-3 copies of most of the popular, new release movies). This  
> would
> certainly increase our circulation (if we can purchase 4 DVDs of new
> movies for the same cost as one DVD set, we'll see 4 more circulations
> per week). If one disc is stolen, we don't lose a $70 set.

Susan McGowan
Head of Reference Services
Morton Grove Public Library
Morton Grove, IL
(847) 965-4220
Direct Line: (847) 929-5118
smcgowan at webrary.org
http://www.webrary.org

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