Now's a good time to buy an extra copy of the DVD: our two Blockbusters in the south KC suburb where I work (the nearest part of Kansas City to us) have only a few left but they are charging between $7 and $11 per copy. The down side, well just for me I guess, is that I want a full screen copy to compare with the wide screen one I already have and all their copies are wide screen.
The Dave Cullen forum's project has placed about 700 DVDs so far, and some participants did quite a lot of calling to small towns and especially to the states where we hadn't placed any yet. There was one nasty dustup when a library staffer in Oklahoma made a sick joke about how their local cowboys would "drag [Ennis and Jack] through the sagebrush and cactus and leave them for the coyotes." (an approximate quote) The library later apologized.
My own resources are limited but I managed to place three copies, two of which I paid for and one from the generous number that DCLuke donated. They were all three to college libraries. If anyone had told me ahead of time how rewarding that was, I wouldn't have believed it, especially when I got acknowledgement letters from the libraries.
According to the participants, most libraries were actually very positive. And with some that declined, the reasons had nothing to do with opposition to the film. There are some libraries that don't carry anything behond PG-rated stuff, others that only deal with documentaries and subjects of local interest and a few that don't carry movies that are available in major outlets like Blockbuster. Our own local library doesn't even carry DVDs as yet, although the regional library system it's part of did add Brokeback to their collection just last month.
