{"id":71,"date":"2017-08-08T22:17:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T03:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.valsadie.com\/librariesval\/?p=71"},"modified":"2019-05-24T18:11:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T23:11:02","slug":"dvd-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.valsadie.com\/librariesval\/dvd-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Visibility for DVD Collections in Libraries?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My best idea for increasing the visibility of DVD collections in libraries was to first connect titles to a list. For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.swanlibraries.net\/client\/help\/user-help_en_US\/Content\/admin-help\/1-Searching\/Patron%20help.htm#HomePage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SWAN Libraries<\/a> has <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.swanlibraries.net\/client\/en_US\/gws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">book covers on a slideshow connected to the <em>New York Times<\/em> Best-Seller List<\/a>. Depending on how well a film does at the box office, a title can show up on DVD in a couple of months or in a matter of weeks. I found that a comparable list of &#8220;best-sellers&#8221; for film is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/browse\/top-dvd-streaming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RottenTomatoes.com Top DVD &amp; Streaming List<\/a>. &nbsp;There are three available sorts of the list &#8212; Release Date, Tomatometer, and, the one I think would work best, Popularity. 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