On 2019-03-23 9:56 a.m., heyjoe wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 03:15:53 -0700 (PDT)
> in Message-ID:
> >
> Cindy Hamilton > wrote :
>
>> no more books
>> are being purchased by libraries.
>
> That's not the case here. Multiple copies of at least a dozen newly
> written books by popular authors are purchased each month. Often,
> there's a waiting list to check out the really popular authors.
>


Our town library is certainly buying lots of new books. The first row
of shelves is the new material and there is a constant turnover there.
they seem to have slowed down a bit on DVD acquisitions. Maybe they are
concerned about a change of format. It wasn't that long ago they were
buying VHS. Sadly, they stopped buying CDs and disposed of those they had.