Youth Services News [EXTERNAL] Re: [Nmlibs] movie nights at the library

Wed Apr 19 13:51:43 MDT 2023

We have the Swank license. We’ve just found that anything that isn’t pretty new doesn’t work for movie night. We do summer matinees and show older things there, which works pretty well, but the family movie night part is different. And right now, Swank is telling us we can show things that we can’t find released on DVD. 

Thank you

Julia Kelso

Director, Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon (next to El Dorado Community School)

7 Avenida Vista Grande, B-7 #192

Santa Fe, NM 87508

www.vglibrary.org

"Witches took the view that they helped society in all kinds of ways which couldn't easily be explained, but which would become obvious if they stopped doing them and it was worth 6 pence and one half-penny not to find out what these were." The Science of the Discworld: The Globe" Terry Pratchett et. al.

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Subject: Re: Youth Services News [EXTERNAL] Re: [Nmlibs] movie nights at the library

It's a great thing to have -in your collection - a slew of movies in your collection that can be used for any type of movie nights!  We also have a multitude of movies and try to use them before going out to purchase specific ones (although our collection is kept up to date through donations of $5.00 movies that are found in Walmart bins).  During the summer, we host movies during the day that are "kid friendly" and that go along with the CSRP theme (loosely).  We also show family friendly movies in the evening that, too, loosely follow the summer reading program's theme.

Annually we purchase the SWANK MOVIE LICENSING so that we are allowed to legally  watch the newest and most popular films.  This license costs about $600.00 a year.  Here is the link for more information about the SWANK MOVIE LICENSE:  https://www.swank.com/public libraries.

Hope that helps!

Margaret B. Hinchee

Library Director

Clovis-Carver Public Library

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On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 1:25 PM Library Director <librarydirector at vglibrary.org <mailto:librarydirector at vglibrary.org> > wrote:

That’s a thought, thanks. 

Thank you

Julia Kelso

Director, Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon (next to El Dorado Community School)

7 Avenida Vista Grande, B-7 #192

Santa Fe, NM 87508

www.vglibrary.org <http://www.vglibrary.org> 

"Witches took the view that they helped society in all kinds of ways which couldn't easily be explained, but which would become obvious if they stopped doing them and it was worth 6 pence and one half-penny not to find out what these were." The Science of the Discworld: The Globe" Terry Pratchett et. al.

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Subject: Re: Youth Services News movie nights at the library

I don't think Disney+ or Amazon have public showing licenses. Please let us know if you find out otherwise! 

Rather than trying to find movies people haven't seen, you might try making old favorites interactive, to increase the draw. There are a myriad of interactive movie scripts on the web.

Ami Jones

Youth Services Librarian

Alamogordo Public Library

(575) 439-4140 ext. 4157

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Subject: Youth Services News movie nights at the library 

We have, for ages, shown family movies once a month. We try to get a recent release in the PG or lower range. We’re starting to bump up against the whole “everything is on streaming,” issue and having a hard time finding movies we’re licensed for out on DVD in the right time frame (forget movies we’ve actually heard of).

I’m not against figuring out how to stream movies, but because we haven’t done this before, I have concerns along the lines of: Do we just get Disney+ and cross our fingers, or sign up for Amazon this month and something else next? 

Is this something anyone else is running into? Suggestions? Solutions?

We don’t have Hulu etc owing to the fact that we have over 4000 DVDs, most of them donated, so it would be something our budget doesn’t really need on the patron end. 

Thank you

Julia Kelso

Director, Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon (next to El Dorado Community School)

7 Avenida Vista Grande, B-7 #192

Santa Fe, NM 87508

www.vglibrary.org <http://www.vglibrary.org> 

"Witches took the view that they helped society in all kinds of ways which couldn't easily be explained, but which would become obvious if they stopped doing them and it was worth 6 pence and one half-penny not to find out what these were." The Science of the Discworld: The Globe" Terry Pratchett et. al.

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