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Low circulation numbers for DVDs and Audiobooks at Warren County Public Library are leading to their being phased out if things don’t change.
This media area, which is downstairs at the library, was once the most popular in terms of circulation, averaging over 1000 copies checked out each month according to Collection Management Librarian, David Scott. This popularity helped grow the collection to “somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 of 9 thousand DVDs.” one of the larger collections for library this size in the State.
Since Covid however, the numbers have drastically dropped to 100-150 dvd checkouts monthly. “We assume after Covid that everyone went to streaming,” said Scott, adding , “So that has tailed off a lot and also our audiobooks as cars stopped getting CD players put in them.”
But the news is not entirely bleak for audiobooks. “We…
