There are very few books on Finnish culture and history. Could we get some more?

Thanks very much for your comment. Our history and culture resources are managed by Larry Milliken, Humanities and Social Science Librarian Extraordinaire. I’ve alerted Larry to your request.

A search in Drexel Library’s catalog for the keyword “Finland” returns 340 resources on everything from the country’s history to its internet laws. These resources are dispersed all over the Hagerty and Hahnemann libraries’ book shelves as well as online through our licensed databases and e-books.  Similar searches in just a couple of our databases turn up thousands of articles on an even broader range of topics.

Whether you just want to browse or you need specific information, you can get a librarian’s help narrowing these choices by visiting the reference desk, calling 215-895-2755, emailing qmlib@drexel.edu, texting drexellibraryref: to 265010, or sending us an instant message from our website. We’ll help you identify and find exactly what you need.

If you can’t find what you need among these resources, you can contact Larry Milliken directly, and he’ll be happy to help you find what you need. And don’t forget, if we don’t have it at Drexel, you can have it delivered from another library with EZBorrow and ILLiad.

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.