Stephen Fry mentioned how he missed a Dr Who episode when he was younger and at the time he couldn't do anything about it except look at the TV guide each week for a re-run.
That reminded me of the same situation I was in. I was watching an episode of Star Trek (the original series) many years ago when half way through the episode the picture went blank. For a long time afterwards I checked the guide for a repeat of that episode, till I forgot which one it was. Since then we've had the DVDs available and I was able to watch all the episodes again.
It is amazing how much old stuff from when we were growing up is now available, either on the web or on DVD. At the time it was all fairly transient, you'd watch it once then move on. Now we can re-live a fair bit of it whenever we want.
As much of this content is available on the web, libraries need to get in on the act, possibly by becoming a portal and making access easy.
It will be interesting to see what our council's will let us do. Some appear to be more open-minded than others. I know our council is frightened at the prospect of the public being able to interact on our site "What if they say something negative about council and it's there on our site for all to see?"
Looks like there are some exciting times ahead for libraries.
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