Legal Research

A Win on DVD?s

By admin

I picked this up from the HuffPost but it started in libraryland at OCLC:

Libraries Lend More Movies Than Netflix, Study Finds

“Hartford Courant:

The survey, released this year by OCLC, a nonprofit library co-operative and research organization, found that public libraries in the United States lend an average 2.1 million videos every day, slightly more than the 2 million that Netflix ships. The other top two competitors, Redbox and Blockbuster, come in at 1.4 million and 1.2 million respectively, according to daily averages provided by company representatives.”

It’s great to see the points from OCLC’s How Libraries Stack Up being picked up by the mainstream media.

I hope libraries get to be as good at ‘circulating’ streaming media as we are at circulating objects like videos and DVD.

Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on August 02, 2010 (boomark / email).