October 5, 2009

As Halloween is coming up, here’s some often overlooked gems of the horror genre in our collection that may help put you in that holiday spirit:

• Cat People/Curse of the Cat People
• The Devil’s Backbone
• Diabolique
• Eyes Without A Face
• Frenzy
• I Walked With A Zombie
• Kwaidan
• Let The Right One In
• Open Your Eyes
• Repulsion

If Halloween isn’t your thing, here are the DVDs with the highest circulation during last year:

• A Civil Action
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s
• The Graduate
• Waging A Living
• Trainspotting
• Amelie
• King Corn
• Becoming Jane
• Crash
• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, but were Afraid to Ask
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Vertigo

UNH Manchester DVDs with the highest circulation during last year. (Please keep in mind that both Durham and Manchester patrons can request movies from either the Durham or Manchester libraries and pick them up at their home library):

• Shakespeare Retold
• The Bucket List
• Sweeney Todd
• John Adams
• 27 Dresses
• Charlie Wilson’s War
• Persepolis
• The Other Boleyn Girl
• Doctor Who: The Complete Third Series
• 3:10 To Yuma (2007)

But wait, we left out the Film Underground movies that are part of our collection but are shelved separately. The Film Underground is a student group at UNH Durham. They were awarded two Parent’s Grants to purchase films for the Library (the Library matched these grants). They selected a wide array of films, ranging from esoteric art movies, cult classics, children’s movies, to a few movies that are just enjoyably odd and obscure.

• American Psycho
• There Will Be Blood
• Flight of the Conchords: The Complete First Season
• Match Point
• Say Anything
• Good bye Lenin!
• Kicking and Screaming
• Paris, je t’aime
• Eyes Wide Shut
• He Died with a Felafel in his Hand

Hopefully, these lists will remind you that you’re sharing these resources with many others in the UNH community. So please take care to be considerate of our materials. If we’re lucky, we can replace damaged materials. Even then, it often takes considerable time and effort before another patron can use the material.

September 29, 2008

A limited number of headphone sets are now available for check-out of the Multimedia Center. These sets are for use within the library only and may not leave the building.

Headphones are available for checkout during normal Multimedia Center hours. The Multimedia Center is located on Level 2 in Dimond Library.

April 8, 2008

The UNH Parents Association has generously awarded funds for two projects in the library.

The first supports the purchase of new laptop computers and cases for the library. Laptops are available for patron use and can be checked out from the Reserve Desk, located on Level 3 in Dimond Library.

Also, the Parents Association has again awarded $2,500 to the Film Underground to add a selection of DVDs to our multimedia collection. These DVDs will be available to patrons and also used for Film Underground film screenings.

The UNH Film Underground is a student-run organization which sponsors showings of rare, classic, foreign, and independent films on the big screen. Showings are followed by an open forum of discussion and analysis. In 2006, the Film Underground formed a partnership with the Collection Development department of the UNH Library.