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D-V-Ds are staying on the shelves at Gwinnett County libraries after all. This time they'l... Gwinnett County libraries to keep

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The Gwinnett County Public Library Board of Trustees voted yesterday to make thousands of children's D-V-Ds and videos available for checkout again.

The unanimous vote reverses a vote in September in which the board said it would begin selling off the collection. The board said security measures to protect the D-V-Ds from theft could cost two-point-eight (m) million dollars over the next five years.

The move to sell the D-V-Ds prompted an outcry from parents who home school their children. They say they depend on the movies to help educate their children.

One parent who home schools her children -- Kathleen Simpson -- calls the two-point-eight (m) million dollar estimate to protect D-V-Ds from theft -- quote -- "a massive miscalculation." She says she will submit a proposal for a less expensive alternative to the board.

The problem of D-V-D theft has plagued the library system since April 2004. Board chairman Don English says of the original 20,000 D-V-Ds in the library systems collection, about half were stolen.

That led the library board to remove the remaining children's D-V-Ds from their shelves and sell them off through Web sites. About eight-thousand titles remain.

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