News From Milwaukee says DVDs and other multimedia items are on pace to overtake books as the most popular materials leaving public libraries in the Milwaukee area, statistics show.
Nearly 43% of the materials circulated at the 13 Milwaukee public libraries were multimedia items in 2001, the latest year for which figures are available. That compares with 27% in 1994 and 38% in 1999.
The demand for multimedia includes videos, CDs and CD-ROMs, along with the increasingly well-liked DVDs and audio cassette books.
Huh, really.
Well, I’m not surprised. Apparrently the Ft. Worth Library is experiencing the same thing. I know my smaller local system has nothing in the way of DVDs worth checking out.
“Libraries traditionally have been on the cutting edge of technology,” she said
really?