Describe Project and Impact:
Housing Redbox kiosks outside our libraries will provide another dimension to our 24-hour library model and offer popular movies and video games we currently can't provide our customers.
Project Description and Expected Outcomes:
Install Redbox kiosks at select locations. This will fill a number of community needs currently unmet: new, popular releases of movies that aren't major award winners or based on a book; video games; Blu-Ray movies; the ability to get a movie at the library past closing. Additionally, for movies which MLS does purchase, but which have very long wait lists, this would provide an alternate way of getting the movie while still at the library. Redbox shares 3% of the profits with the library. This will open up a new segment of the market by drawing gamers and movie enthusiasts to the library without our having to make space inside the library for Blu-Ray/Playstation/Xbox/Wii formats, while easing some of the demand (and wear and tear) on our most popular DVD titles.
Why should we select this project?:
We have growing demand for new titles and formats and limited space. This would allow us to offer those titles and formats without needing to change our purchasing policies.
Constraints, Limitations, or Dependencies:
There is (still, I believe) a wait list for partnering with Redbox; for the library to purchase a kiosk would be expensive (although we would then keep 10+% of the profit).
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