Currently on Order
(DVDs are ordered every other week)
3/2/2010
2012
Alice
Bliss
Bright star
Coco before Chanel
Couples retreat
Crude
Damned United
Everybody's fine
Good hair
The informant
Make way for tomorrow
Paris, Texas
Return to Cranford
Revanche
The September issue
A serious man
COMING SOON: Capitalism: a love
story; Earth days; An education; The men who stare at
goats;
Old
dogs; Paris; Precious; Sherlock Holmes; The stoning of
Soraya M.; Summer hours; Up in the air;
The young Victoria
The
DVD Area
Looking for a dvd? As you face the Circulation Desk, the
dvds are in the area immediately to the right, on the shelves that run
along the walls with the windows at the top.
If you'd like to browse this year's purchases, just look at the first
two complete shelving sections of the dvd area. The first of
these is set up like a bookstore display area (items stand face out);
the second, arranged like books on library shelves.
Older titles start in the third shelving section and continue to the
end.
"Though this be madness, yet
there is method in 't...."
The Library uses the Dewey Decimal System to arrange its
dvds. For example, books about Hollywood movies are located in
791.43; dvds of Hollywood movies, then, would also be labeled 791.43.
Some frequently used categories for movies are:
791.43
|
Hollywood
movies
|
820
|
Films
from England
|
830
|
Films
from Germany
|
840
|
Films
from France
|
850
|
Films
from Italy
|
860
|
Films
from Spain
|
891
|
Films
from India
|
895.1
|
Films
from China
|
895.6
|
Films
from Japan
|
Sports would have a number starting with 796, 797, 798, or
799--depending on the sport.
Travel would have a number starting with 91-. Travel to
Switzerland, for example, would have the Dewey number 914.94--whether a
book or a dvd. Japan, 915.2.
Wondering why you often see empty
shelves?
DVD circulation increased by 94.6% in 2005
and by another 37.8%
in 2006
and another 16.8%
in 2007
and another 24.3%
in 2008
and another 11.5%
in 2009!
