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Over the course of three years, filmmaker Meghan Eckman tracked the comings and goings of a solitary parking lot in Charlottesville, Va., chronicling the lives of the attendants who were working there. This inspiring documentary is the result. Hanging tough as they navigate the range of human emotion -- from hope to frustration, from a sense of limitless possibilities to stagnation -- the film's subjects embody the pursuit of the American Dream.

Trailer: http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2196243993/

Clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0R65Cagx98

And another: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8r8yxpEzmU&feature=relmfu

If you have Netflix you can see this movie in the "Watch it Instantly" section.

One good line in the movie roughly goes - What is the existential reality of your job? Here is a clip that has that language - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZBH3JkWZaU&feature=relmfu (First attendant talking in this clip is a librarian)

Link to DVD on Amazon: http://amzn.to/fkGHzx

Librarian featured in movie: http://libmma.org/portal/john-lindaman/

See commentary at EarlyWord about the book "What to Expect When You Are Expecting" being made into a movie. Funny!

Report: Netflix Accounts For Up To 20% Of Downstream Bandwidth In U.S.
http://bit.ly/atRle1

Netflix 'now primarily a streaming company,' could offer DVD-less plan this year
http://bit.ly/ckxO6a

CHART OF THE DAY: Netflix Streaming Up 145% In A Year
http://read.bi/aAEXfT

For some time now, academic librarians have been resorting to Netflix to plug shortages in their media holdings. In fact, they have been thoroughly above-board about it; even the distinguished journal Library Trends ran an article about "Netflix in an Academic Library" last winter; author Ciara Healy wrote in the abstract that "Netflix turned out to be an excellent, cost-effective solution." The other week, an acquisitions librarian at Concordia College in New York blogged about the blessing of her institution's double eight-disc-at-a-time subscription, which she wrote saved her library $3,000. Though one commenter wondered "how you got this past legal for your university," she responded that there had been "no legal repercussions."

Full story here. Next line in story is - Whoops. Turns out Netflix isn't actually cool with libraries using the service and doesn't want early adopting librarians to be encouraging others to do so.