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By David Rothman

Denver Public LibraryHere, from the Rocky Mountain News in Denver. A Good Thing? Or is this a hint of a massive bleeding of budgets for books and other texts, at least in the future? And might some of the money go for literacy programs instead? Just what does a library need to do to stay in good graces with the users-taxpayers? Excerpt:

Eventually, the library expects to also offer feature films. Like audio books, Jeske said, patrons will be able to keep a video download about a week before it automatically erases.

The library hopes to some day have computer kiosks where members without fast Internet service – or no service – can download films onto their portable video players.

OverDrive will be delivering the content to the Denver Public Library, according to a story in the Denver Post.

A positive: The library is into e-books and is benefitting from the usual spiffy-looking work that OverDrive does. Now, if OverDrive can get this here format thing and some other details right.

Another positive: As reported in the Post, “Some of the videos will come with display rights that allow schools and nonprofits to show the films to groups, renewing the concept of remote learning.”

Related: Preview WMA file of one of the library’s audio offerings, The Great Gatsby. Redford film on the way?

 
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