To highlight our large music collection, the Library Multimedia Room presents Music for Studying. This display features mostly classical and instrumental music that provide a calm study environment. The display includes, among others:

• Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Tchaikovsky
• More of the Best of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Fantasia on Greensleeves
• Paradise: Music for Flute and Harp
• Vivaldi Collection
• Famous Ballet Music

and many more from Mozart, Bach, Brahms, Pachelbel, and others.

UNH professors gave their own recommendations for what students might listen to while studying:

• Heavenly Harmonies (Professor Harris, Psychology Department)
• The English Suites and The French Suites (Professor Haskins, Music Department)

Our student workers also contributed their favorite CDs for studying, which adds some modern music to the collection.

• Billy Joel Greatest Hits
• The Suburbs by Arcade Fire
• Imagine by John Lennon
• Wonderful World by Iz
• Brothers by the Black Keys
• West Side Story Soundtrack
• Pomp and Circumstance Marches

Also check out the online classical music database, the Classical Music Library, or one of the many more music databases available to UNH students, faculty, and staff!

This display will be open until mid-October, so make sure to stop by when studying for classes!

The library celebrates the Summer Olympics in Rio next month with a new display of inspirational sports movies. The display will be in our multimedia room during the month of August.

Our multimedia room is located in Dimond Library on Level 2.

The display includes films such as:

• 2 seconds
• Ali
• Blind Side
• Brian's Song
• Chariots of Fire
• Coach Carter
• The Crash Reel
• The Fighter
• Girlfight
• Hoop Dreams
• Invictus
• The Karate Kid
• Miracle
• Murderball
• The Natural
• One Goal at a time
• Remember the Titans
• The Rocket
• There is No Finish Line
• Wimbledon

June 8th is World Oceans Day, and to celebrate we have a display in our Multimedia Room (located in Dimond Library, Level 2) filled with ocean themed movies for you to enjoy.

The display includes films such as:

• The Blue Planet: seas of life v.1-4
• Ocean Giants
• Saving the Ocean
• The Whale Warrior: pirate for the sea
• Farming the Seas
• El Niño & the Link Between Oceans, Atmosphere and Weather
• Jaws
• Oceans

The items in this display are available to borrow, and the display will remain up through the summer semester. You can learn more about the inspiration for this display by visiting the World Oceans Day website.

Visit our Multimedia Room (located in Dimond Library, Level 2) to see our large display of films to inspire your summer adventures.

Take a hike

• A Walk in the Woods
• Wild
• Five Million Steps: the Appalachian Trail thru-hiker's story

Grow a garden

• The Garden
• Great Berkshire Gardens: the nine seasons
• Gardens of Destiny

Attend a summer concert or music festival

• Jazz on a Summer’s Day
• Woodstock: 3 days of peace & music
• The American Folk-Blues Festival

Go fishing

• Fish Belong to the People
• Why Fly Fishing

Take a road trip

• Horatio’s Drive: America's first road trip
• The Journey
• 180 Degrees South

Enjoy the great outdoors

• Forever Wild: celebrating America's wilderness
• The National Parks
• Wild by Law
• Mother Nature’s Child: growing outdoors in the media age

Go to a farmers market

• Farmers markets: fresh, nutritious, local
• Fresh
• Tableland: a culinary expedition

The items in this display are available to borrow, and the display will remain up through the summer semester.

For the month of May, the Library will be celebrating National Bicycle Month with a new Multimedia display. This display, located in the Multimedia Room (Dimond Level 2), features movies that are bicycle themed or have famous bicycle scenes.

Movies on display include:

• 100% Woman
• 127 Hours
• 2 Seconds
• Beijing Bicycle
• Pedal-Driven: A Bikeumentary
• Rushmore
• The Bicycle Thief
• The Day I Became a Woman
• The Quiet Man
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
• The Triplets of Belleville
• Wadjda
• The Wizard of Oz

Also, remember to participate in Bike to Work day, which is held on May 20^th!

This month is Shakespeare's birthday and to celebrate it the UNH library is featuring a display of Shakespeare DVDs, audiobooks, and music. This display will be in the Multimedia Room of Dimond Library (Level 2) and will be split up into sections of different plays. Each play has many different movie versions and almost all plays have an audiobook available.

In addition to the display, we will be showing a play a day in the Multimedia Room from April 19-22, beginning at 11:30 AM each day.

• Tuesday, April 19: King Lear
• Wednesday, April 20: As You Like It
• Thursday, April 21: Macbeth
• Friday, April 22: Hamlet

Films on display include:

• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Antony and Cleopatra
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Othello
• Romeo and Juliet
• The Taming of the Shrew

Some plays even have modern movie adaptions like Macbeth and Othello. So come to the Multimedia Room and celebrate Shakespeare with us by watching films inspired by his plays!

The Dimond Library Multimedia Room has put together a great display of foreign films. This movie display was set up by a student worker and is organized by language. Languages that this display includes are French, Russian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, and more! Some films that are included in the display:

• La Strada
• Children of Heaven
• Jules and Jim
• Ikiru
• Amelie
• Spirited Away
• Metropolis
• City of God
• The Leopard

...and many more classic foreign films. Make sure to stop by and take a look!

We've pulled together a display of presidential election related movies in the UNH Library Multimedia Center in Dimond Library. The selection of movies highlight many aspects of elections over many years.

• Chisolm '72
• Feed
• Game Change
• Leading Questions
• The Nice Man Cometh
• Primaries: Defining the Battle in New Hampshire
• Primary
• Unprecedented: the 2000 Presidential Election
• An Unreasonable Man

Through our online database American History in Video there are a number of newsreels, documentaries, and interviews available related to presidential elections as well.

Beloved actor, Alan Rickman, died earlier this week.

We've pulled together a display in the Multimedia Room on Level 2 of Dimond Library to share and celebrate Rickman's work.

Come check out some of the movies that Alan Rickman starred in over the years.

• Alice in Wonderland
• The Butler
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and the rest of the series
• Romeo and Juliet
• Therese Raquin

The Multimedia room has a new display, featuring favorite movies and TV series chosen by staff and students.

The items on display are available to borrow.

Staff picks

• The Abominable Dr. Phibes
• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
• Angels with Dirty Faces
• Apocalypse Now
• Black Swan
• Chihuly (DVD Collection)
• Clockwork Orange
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
• Jurassic Park
• Monsters Inc.
• Monty Python's the Meaning of Life
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Star Trek (2009 movie)
• Twin Peaks
• 2001: a Space Odyssey

...and many more!

Student picks

• American Sniper
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
• Blues Brothers
• Django Unchained
• The Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship of the Ring
• Remember the Titans
• Saving Private Ryan
• Titanic
• The Twilight Zone
• Whip It

...and many more!

We will be rotating in some new selections every week, and the display will be up through February. Come by to revisit an old favorite, or find a new favorite!