NEW YORK, March 23 (UPI) -- Kafka and Kubrick could be virtual shelf mates if a deal between the Brooklyn, N.Y., Public Library and Netflix comes to pass.
The nation's fifth-largest library system said it hoped to team with Netflix to deliver DVD and videos to anyone living in the New York borough who has a library card, the New York Post said Friday. For the patrons, the cost would be right -- free.
John Vitali, the library's chief fiscal officer, said the library reached out to Netflix to serve as a provider of DVDs and videos.
"What we want to do is work with Netflix and really get that inventory together, really use Netflix as the delivery mechanism," Vitali said so the library could outsource the inventory.
"We're getting some good vibrations back. Nothing formal has been settled," Vitali said.
A Netflix spokesman said he did not know about a potential partnership.
Vitali said if the partnership works out, the library and the movie-delivery service would develop a list culled from the Netflix catalog of 750,000 films.
