I have spoken here a few times about changes happening at the library. Each of these is intended to make your library experience easier, more enjoyable, or better. Our most recent change falls right in line.
You might have noticed that you now can take out more DVDs than before. When the DVD collection was first formed, it was small and DVDs were expensive, so the circulation period (back then it was 2 days) was set up to keep what DVDs we had coming back for circulation to the next person in line.
But times change, the collection grew and the cost of DVDs dropped, and we decided it was time to make some changes in how we handle circulating DVDs. The change highlight: you can take out as many as you want (TV series included) and keep them 2 weeks, renewable 3 times. If you are anything like me, you take those DVDs with every intention of watching them right away, and time just slips by. Before you know it a week has whizzed by and you haven't even taken them out of your bag! Now you can renew and get to them at your leisure. Anther thing that happens to me is I pick those 5, sure that the whole family will want to watch them, and you get them home and they just don't hit the spot. Now you can take more and be sure that something will be interesting.
Of course, the worse scenario was when you forgot about the DVD and now it has been more than a week and wow, those really high fines have kicked in The change bonus: fines now are down to just $.15 a day. Great news - right?
We did keep the limit of 5/check out for a week for our brand new DVDs. Those are in short supply and high demand and we still need to keep them coming in and out. But the fines are lower! Just $.50 a day now.
Speaking of the new movies. People are always asking me if we get new movies - believe it or not, we get them all - they are just always out. Consider putting a reserve on them. Not only will you be sure to get it, but it gives us some data to decide if we need to get additional copies to meet the demand. You will be helping everyone, you will be sure to get the movie pretty quickly and you will be sure to get that great film you have been waiting for since it was released.
Change - in this case we are all winners!
Book: 1001 movies you have to see before you die.
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