A. ASL Access has an annotated listing of ASL resources for persons wishing to purchase videos. The opposite effect is more likely. In a Gallup poll, it was shown that more people bought books than borrowed them from libraries. Book publishers know that libraries foster book-buying. What's more, libraries buy without the necessity of costly marketing efforts, pay their bills, and neither go bankrupt nor return unsold books for credit as bookstores customarily do.
Many people prefer making purchases to waiting for library copies of popular items.
Extrapolating this information from books to videos, it would be likely that library copies of videos placed by ASL Access would stimulate increased sales of those videos to individuals and to libraries. At this time, not enough people know about the wonderful ASL resources which have been unearthed by ASL Access. Parents of deaf children, sign students, interpreting students, experienced interpreters, friends and co-workers of Deaf people, and Deaf people themselves enjoy seeing ASL videos. These people want to buy the videos for themselves or to send to friends and relatives. Think about commercial movies that have become available in home video format.