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thewayneCase in point, late April I mailed out a double DVD, The Curse and The Curse 2, a flippy DVD. I doubt it's a very good movie, but whatever. If someone wants it and I have it, it gets mailed.
Now, we initially cataloged this movie in 2013, so that's when we acquired it. Since then, and I don't know exactly when, we changed cataloging systems and lending history prior to that change was lost. It was, I'd guess, a decade ago. Since that 'decade'-ago conversion, it has had one in-house use plus me mailing it out once.
Very high-traffic item. :-)
Since I sent it out three weeks ago or so?
I've received two or three requests for it! I'm guessing it was featured/mentioned in a podcast or something.
Unfortunately I can't pull up cancelled requests in WorldShare. I could in our previous ILL program, ILLiad, but that cost a fair chunk of money annually whereas WorldShare is free because we already pay a goodly amount of change to OCLC for other programs that we need.
It'll be interesting to see if there's still demand for it once it's returned from the borrowing library.
After digging into IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes, IMDB gives it a 5.1 out of a 1-10 scale and RT gives it a 27% score. I also found out that it's based on a HP Lovecraft story. So definitely sounds like a very bad movie. I didn't bother looking up Curse 2.
And IMDB had a footnote comment that Wil Wheaton, teen star of the film, noted that he and his sister were horribly abused during the production of this film and he talked about it on his blog in 2022(?).
Now, we initially cataloged this movie in 2013, so that's when we acquired it. Since then, and I don't know exactly when, we changed cataloging systems and lending history prior to that change was lost. It was, I'd guess, a decade ago. Since that 'decade'-ago conversion, it has had one in-house use plus me mailing it out once.
Very high-traffic item. :-)
Since I sent it out three weeks ago or so?
I've received two or three requests for it! I'm guessing it was featured/mentioned in a podcast or something.
Unfortunately I can't pull up cancelled requests in WorldShare. I could in our previous ILL program, ILLiad, but that cost a fair chunk of money annually whereas WorldShare is free because we already pay a goodly amount of change to OCLC for other programs that we need.
It'll be interesting to see if there's still demand for it once it's returned from the borrowing library.
After digging into IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes, IMDB gives it a 5.1 out of a 1-10 scale and RT gives it a 27% score. I also found out that it's based on a HP Lovecraft story. So definitely sounds like a very bad movie. I didn't bother looking up Curse 2.
And IMDB had a footnote comment that Wil Wheaton, teen star of the film, noted that he and his sister were horribly abused during the production of this film and he talked about it on his blog in 2022(?).
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Date: 2025-05-13 10:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-05-14 05:15 am (UTC)Unfortunately I can't pull up the cancelled requests. Or can I.... Just had a thought that I can check into tomorrow, if I remember. I can't see who the patron is at the requesting library, but I can definitely see who the requesting library is.