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I had about given up hope on Netflix ever loosening its grip, but just saw when I logged in — KPop Demon Hunters is being released on DVD (and Blu-ray and 4K) by the Criterion Collection!

Requested a few copies for our children’s movie collection immediately… now if only they would allow licensing for public library showings. Fingers crossed~

For personal interest in the movie, preorders are open online (Amazon etc), set to release November 3rd.

Objectively I know parents/other caregivers have a lot going on, and I’m not holding these opinions against them. But it does get frustrating…

During our normal storytime seasons which run like 9 to 11 weeks at a time, we have 2 morning storytimes on 3 days of the week — we can pull this off because we have multiple librarians, each covering a different day. And most of our Saturday mornings we will have another storytime or early literacy program.

We take a week off here and there during local school breaks to focus on programming for the older kids who are able to visit during the day for once. And we take a few weeks off in late spring before doing our ‘reduced’ summertime schedule of 2 days a week.

It’s not a ton, but every time there will be caregivers who express their disappointment — sometimes as a side comment, sometimes point blank — that we are doing less storytimes or stopped doing them on a certain day. It’s one thing if they’re a little sad, but when I sense the unspoken “You should have kept up the regular schedule” or “You could be doing more”, it reveals how many patrons take for granted that we do so many storytimes in the first place.

Yes our library is not on the small side, yes we have multiple storytime librarians, but it’s summer and we want to actually use some of our vacation hours. And that’s in-between programs for the older kids. So I’m sorry we cut one or two baby storytimes from the weekly schedule, and I’m sorry you don’t feel comfortable bringing your baby to a session that includes a larger age range, but we’re human and we’re doing what we can without running ourselves ragged.

Man this went on, I thought I was over it and didn’t need to rant… Anyway I’ve made my peace with storytime life, just thought it should be said. For any other storytime staff struggling; you’re not alone. ☮️

NOTE: this is for our children’s collection specifically.

A portion of our patrons who want to check out DVDs for movies, or audiobooks on CD (they’re not new but popular titles keep circulating), find they simply can’t because they don’t have a player at home/in the car.

Since we have decent funds for our Library of Things, I wanted to try a few portable media players as kits — whether DVD and CD separately, or a combo player I think I saw?

I’ll start browsing Amazon etc, but if anyone knows a certain brand/device that held up well in circulation (or had problems) I would really appreciate hearing your experiences! and maybe other libraries here would as well.

Thanks for reading, and best wishes. 💿