Movies and more movies
This week, the posts are all about movies. First, in the "new and cool" category:

We've just finished a HUGE re-cataloguing of all of our nonfiction VHS materials. There is a lot more information about each movie in the catalog than there was before; searching the catalog (from home or here at the library) for video materials by subject or keyword is meaningful now. We've weeded obsolute materials (and made a list of new things to replace them with over the next few months) and also reorganized the video wall to make it easier to find things.

On the left-hand shelf, by the FOL booksale shelf, from top to bottom, are:

-Feature film and television DVDs, shelved alphabetically by title.
-Nonfction DVDs, shelved by Dewey number.
-Television feature miniseries and television series VHS, shelved alphabetically by series title.

And on the right-hand shelf, by the water fountain, are all of the nonfiction VHS, shelved by Dewey number.

Some of the neat items I came across while re-cataloguing include:

A Glorious Accident, a seven-tape miniseries in which great thinkers in diverse fields - from physics (Freeman Dyson) to evolutionary biology (Stephen Jay Gould and Rupert Sheldrake) to philosophy (Stephen Toulmin and Daniel Dennet) to human neuropsychiatry (Oliver Sacks) talk about the meaning of the the human experience and our place in the universe.

Colfax Avenue: Main Street Colorado, a history of Colfax Avenue, Denver, and the West.

A&E's "Great Performances" presentation of Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi.

The Great Pharaohs of Egypt, a four-tape set covering the history of Ancient Egypt from Imhotep to Cleopatra.

This is all stuff that we've had in our collection for a while; it's just been pretty hard to find, until now. And there's a lot more. Take a look.