Hellboy comics would be a great addition to the stacks.

Thanks for your suggestion. We’re in the process of beefing up our graphic novel collection. We’ll add Hellboy to the list for consideration. Meanwhile, we’ll order Hellboy: Seeds of Destruction for Hagerty’s leisure book collection.

Anything criterion NEEDS to be in our collection.

Thanks for the comment. Yes, the Criterion collection is very important (hence the name). In fact, because the films are so important (and often expensive), we keep most of our Criterion DVDs in the DVD reserve collection behind the circulation desk. Right now we have 85 DVDs from the Criterion collection. Of course, this is nowhere near all of the collection, but, since our budget for film is not infinite, we cannot automatically get everything. If there’s something specific you’d like to see in Hagerty’s collection, please let us know (and let us know who you are so we can follow up) and we’ll look into it.

Please also send out circulation notices for DVDs when they are due on a particular day, the same way circulation notices are sent out for books.

Thanks for the suggestion. Circulation notices are emailed 5 days before borrowed items are due. Since the loan period for DVDs is 5 days, if we sent the notice for DVDs, you’d get it on the day you checked the DVD out. Unfortunately we can not create an alternate system for DVDs with our current software. To help you remember, we insert a helpful reminder about when your DVD is due in each DVD case we check out.

Perhaps have a separate section for newer movies that the library gets in stock? I get tired of going through the alphabet looking for new ones!

Thanks for this great idea. We’re really cramped for space at the moment, so we can’t make a separate section for new DVDs, but we can post a list of the most recent DVDs by the leisure shelves. Also, don’t forget you can always find a list of the most recent additions on the library website. Go to the home page and find the “New Books and DVDs” link on the left. Or just click here.

Two DVD requests:

Can you get more Food Network DVDs? Like Alton Brown and Iron Chef. Pretty please?

Can you please get the first and second season of “How I met Your Mother”?

Thanks for these great recommendations. We’ll put them on the list for consideration later in the summer.

I don’t know if these exist, but Bill Nye, the Science Guy DVDs would be really really awesome. And The Shining.

Thanks for the great suggestions! To say that Bill Nye the Science Guy DVDs do exist is probably the understatement of the year. We’ll get some.

And, of course, what DVD collection would be complete without a copy of The Shining? We had one, but it was lost.  Perhaps it was thrown in the Schuylkill River by a creeped-out engineering student. We’ll get another one so the creep fest can continue.

Can you get The Bicycle Thief on DVD?

Great movie, and great suggestion.  In fact, we already have The Bicycle Thief on DVD, although it’s not part of our leisure collection. This term, the DVD is available from our reserve desk for three day loan. However, this film is frequently put on course reserve, and when that happens, it will only be available for viewing in the library.

Be sure to check out our other great DVDs that are not in the leisure collection. Just make sure to search the entire catalog, not just DVDs, when searching for a title.

I would like to see more updated DVDs. Thanks.

Thanks for your suggestion. We are actually ordering new DVDs each month! For a list of the latest new DVDs, see the “New AV List” at http://innoserv.library.drexel.edu/ftlist.

I think I “Heart” Huckabees would be a wonderful addition to the Leisure DVDs. I love it and would like as many people as possible to see it!

Thanks for your suggestion. I “Heart” Huckabees is currently on “Hagerty Reserve Media Overnight Loan”. But at the end of the Fall Term, this movie should return to its rightful place in the Leisure DVD collection. Hope you enjoy!

Add the missing DVD of Dexter to the collection. It’s disk 3 of 4 that’s currently missing.

Thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately, we don’t have a great way to replace a single disc without replacing the entire season. Sometimes our vendors sell a single disc at a time, but that’s not available for Dexter Season 1. We’ll keep an eye out and see if we can replace this. Thanks for your patience…