Actually, most libraries do not monitor the age of who's checking out what; at least not here in the US. It's not our job (I'm a public librarian) to monitor what your children borrow, so any parent who cares has two options: Go to the library WITH them, or have the library put a restrictive note on their account. We will respect your wishes, but cannot read your mind - also can't control the self-check machines, LOL.
Now you (the OP) ask "why use public funds on this?" The simple answer is because somebody thought it was a good film, possibly even a patron suggested it, and/or it suits their collection. Not to mention, very little of our money still comes from government funds these days... here in California, we only get funding from local taxpayers, our nonprofit Friends organization, private endowments, and a little from the County budget. NO state, NO federal. Nice, huh?
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lithotomy
11 years ago
Our library also gets money from the annual used book sale, which is a massive event that everyone in town tends to show up for. I don't always buy books during that sale (I did two years ago), but my family and I donate books, sometimes box loads, every other year or so.
I got Sleeping Beauty at the library as well. It did occur to me that I was watching this movie from the library lol, but I'm so grateful for them. I just found today, in fact, our library also has several GoPro Cameras to check out (they also just built a small, but effective video and music production studio). It's ridiculous how cool our library is.
To the OP, I assume libraries also carry extremely popular movies because they make bank on the late fees (at least for people who pay up) and "lost and paid" situations. Sadly, I notice a lot of DVDs are often labeled as "missing", so there will always be a-holes who steal from the library.
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