Please note that libraries will be discontinuing their CD collections, because most administrators look only at circulation numbers. What the front line staff think rarely matters. Contact the library administrators formally now before they go that. Get together petitions. Explain that they, the publicly funded library, are the only source for the public to borrow these prized titles because they are not available in the streaming formet from anyone. Remember the history of the discontinuation of Beta Max in libraries, followed by the history of VHS in libraries. Libraries today all pay for the very same couple of big corporation subscriptions of online streaming of politically-correct, “woke” titles - this for adults, teens, and children. Publishing and librarianship are overwhelmingly dominated by Leftist group think. The uniformity and cherry picked selection of titles should alarm everyone. The range and choice of titles are being made elsewhere, under Leftist corporate aegis.
Sounded like a great idea at the time and Google had the resources to actually do it.
A big squawk was made at the time and the project halted. We haven't heard much about it since. I wonder if Google was "gotten to" by the powers that be - who certainly have a vested interest in controlling what the masses see and don't see.
Our library uses the “Kanopy” streaming service for libraries, so I can see a day in the future when they will argue they need to offer movies exclusively through that. But, like other services, it has a limited library.
I thought the Internet was going to bring us ALL of the world’s information on demand. It isn’t working out that way.