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This is a personal case study of the implementation of a Netflix subscription to augment a media collection at a community college. The implementation process is explained against the backdrop of a particular collection development crisis that gripped the college media collection that year. In these particular circumstances, Netflix turned out to be an excellent, cost-effective solution.

This issue of Library Trends was proposed as an update to the last media issue in 1985, on the presumption that much has changed with regard to academic media collections and services in the last twenty-five years. While it is certainly true that media collections, creation, access, and distribution in academic libraries has changed radically, it is interesting to note how much things have stayed the same. From the introduction to the first Library Trends media issue in 1967, C. Walter Stone, then director of libraries at the University of Pittsburgh, writes:

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