Library column for 5/9/13
by Beth Cronk, Litchfield head librarian
by Beth Cronk, Litchfield head librarian
I have a happy announcement to make: our videos can now be
checked out for five days at a time.
This means that all DVDs and VHS tapes will be due five days after they
are checked out or renewed, instead of only two days.
This will be the checkout period in all Pioneerland
libraries, including Grove City and Dassel.
I know this will be much more practical for our rural residents who
don’t get into a town with a library every day.
You will also have a better chance to watch a few episodes of a TV
series on DVD when you have five days to keep it. I am very excited about the change. I know our customers have wanted this.
So what will you watch with your longer checkout time? Our library has a wide variety
available. Here are some of the new DVDs
we have at the Litchfield Library:
Anna Karenina is
the latest movie version of the classic novel by Leo Tolstoy. It won an Oscar for costume design and was
nominated for cinematography, musical score, and production design. Anna is a married aristocrat in late-19th-century
Russia who has a life-changing affair with Count Vronsky. Keira Knightley stars as Anna and Jude Law as
her husband.
Argo won this
year’s best picture Oscar. It also won Oscars for film editing and best adapted
screenplay. It was nominated for musical
score, sound editing, sound mixing, and supporting actor, Alan Arkin. Ben Affleck directed and also stars in the
movie. The film is based on the true
story of the Canadian Caper, the rescue of six Americans who escaped the
Iranian militants’ takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979. Affleck plays a CIA specialist who devises a plan
to fake a movie scouting trip as a cover to get the Americans out.
In the comedy department, The Guilt Trip is a story about a man who takes his mother with him
on a cross-country road trip. As they
travel, they find they have more in common than they realized. Barbra Streisand plays the mother and Seth
Rogen plays her son.
The Intouchables
is another comedy, but it’s a French film.
It was nominated for a Golden Globe for best foreign language film. It’s based on the true story of the
friendship of two people who seem to have nothing in common, a disabled
millionaire and his ex-con caretaker.
As far as TV shows, we’ve just gotten the third season of Ice Road Truckers. It isn’t the newest season, but all of you
who’ve enjoyed the first two seasons that our library system has on DVD will now
be able to continue watching. This
series from the History Channel covers the experiences of the drivers who
shuttle critical supplies to the North Slope oil fields during the three months
that the rivers and ocean are frozen on the dangerous Dalton Highway.
To take things in a whole different direction, Barbie in The Pink Shoes is the latest
animated dance movie for kids. It
features dances from the classic ballets Giselle and Swan Lake in a fantasy
storyline in which two ballerinas must defeat the evil Snow Queen.
If you haven’t checked out movies because getting them back
in two days was too hard, I hope you’ll start borrowing them now. We have
something for everyone in our video collection.
