As promised, as part of our year-end push, we’re continuing to add huge volumes of classic television shows to our collection. Frasier, The Jeffersons, Get Smart, The Golden Girls, and other famous sitcoms are now available to check out from the library, either for research purposes or just for fun. Huge thanks to our staff […]
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New Acquisitions – March 2016
You might notice that we’ve added a boatload of older television shows this month. We’re in the process of filling in our television back-catalog, and the place to start has been Full House and The Norm Show. Look for much more classic television to join the collection in the coming weeks. We’ve also started adding […]
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How long can we go in this post without mentioning that we now have Magic Mike XXL? One sentence, I guess. In any event, our latest batch of acquisitions for February 2016 has highlights all over the map. The big under-the-radar hit you’ll want to see is Dope, the coming-of-age movie thatrocked the Sundance film […]
Continue readingNew Acquisitions – January 2016
Rub your weary eyes and put on non-sweatpants; DC has functionally recovered from the weekend’s massive snowstorm, and we’re back to work. Our first order of business is pushing out the next wave of new DVDs from this month. Big names from this month include the Melissa McCarthy comedy Spy, Marvel’s Ant-Man, and Sundance hit […]
Continue readingNew Acquisitions – December 2015
Oh, hello! You caught us right in the middle of turning off the lights and locking things up the library closes up for winter break. But before we speed off, we wanted to leave you with a big stack of DVDs you can look forward to checking out when you’re back. Everyone looking for new […]
Continue readingNew Acquisitions – November 2015
Another month has passed, we’ve added another hundred titles to our collection. The obvious big highlight is the first season of Empire, the massively successful hip-hop drama that has been a boon to television in more than one way. You might also spot Going Clear, the famously damning exposé of the Church of Scientology, and […]
Continue readingNew Acquisitions – October 2015 – Part 2
We’re pickin’ up good vibrations this month… or at least because we just added Love & Mercy, the biopic of The Beach Boys singer Brian Wilson. That’s one of our bigger titles for the second half of October. Our other major highlight is Salad Days, a locally produced documentary about the DC punk scene in […]
Continue readingNew Acquisitions – October 2015
Spooky season is here – and not just because of Halloween. A hurricane might be hitting us soon, and we’re not feeling a weekend of overcast, rain, and wind. As with nearly any other circumstance, we see this as a prime opportunity for movie-watching… at least until the power goes out. So we present to […]
Continue readingNew Acquisitions – September 2015 – Part 2
DC’s 90-degree days are finally behind us. It’s almost time to make cider and curl up under some form of flannel, and we couldn’t be happier. Seems like as good of a time as any to get you caught up on what you can now check out from our collection. Our biggest new title for […]
Continue readingNew Acquisitions – September 2015
And thus the school year begins! Welcome to all the returning and new students that we’re looking forward to assisting over the semester. Although we’ve continued to add new titles throughout the past month, our largest batch of new additions comes from the Center for Diversity and Inclusion Library formerly located in Mary Graydon. The […]
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