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Video loans rise quickly at libraries

Borrowed any good videos lately from the library? If you have, you are in good company. Video lending has exploded over the past five years, rising at a far higher rate than the lending of books or audio, according to information from the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. Video lending statewide more than doubled between 2000 and 2009, from 6.6 million videos to 13.8 million.

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