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Library's DVD collection grows The other day one of our regular library customers asked why I haven't written much about the library's DVD collection. While I do try to include DVDs in my column, I realized I had never done a proper overview of all the library has to offer. Our DVD collection has grown quite dramatically in recent years and now stands at approximately 1,400 titles. To give you an idea of the range of titles available, here is a description of as many of them as possible: There are popular television series, for example Seinfeld, OC, Smallville, Miami Vice, Happy Days, Desperate Housewives, CSI, House MD, Grey's Anatomy, Lost, and Gilmore Girls; British TV series like Foyle's War, Last Detective, Rosemary and Thyme, Rebus, Darling Buds of May, Keeping Up Appearances, Black Adder, Faulty Towers, Balleykissangel; Classic films, including Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Apartment, M, Laurel and Hardy, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Some Like it Hot, Psycho, Treasures from the American Film Archives; New films such as Crash, Memoirs of a Geisha, King Kong, Brokeback Mountain, North Country, Proof, An Unfinished Life; Not so classic, not so new films like The Big Chill, Notting Hill, 12 Angry Men, Paperchase, Glengarry Glen Ross, Strictly Ballroom, Waking Ned Divine; Foreign films from England, Italy, Denmark, Poland, Australia, France, Germany, Russia, Japan, Korea, Brazil, Mexico, and Canada. (Yes, it appears that Canada is considered foreign to the film critics in the United States.) Clare Hanman Children's DVDs featuring Franklin, Thomas the Tank Engine, the Wiggles, Dora the Explorer, Wallace and Gromit, Caillou, VeggieTales, Baby Einstein, and Sponge Bob; Family films such as Eight Below, the Harry Potter films, Corpse Bride, Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; How-to DVDs with advice from Mike Holmes, Martha Stewart, Jamie Oliver, and Suze Orman; Documentaries, including Grizzly Man, Grey Matter, Guns Germs and Steel, World at War; Music from Shania Twain, Andre Lloyd Weber, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and all sorts of opera stars! New additions arrive weekly and are posted on our website (www.library.hhpl.on.ca). Simply follow the link called "What's new at the Library" and click on "DVDs". Lastly, don't forget that you can borrow any DVD for free with your Halton Hills Public Library card. But please don't take all 1,400 at once! Clare Hanman is a circulation supervisor for the Halton Hills Public Library