This guide provides basic tips for using the Library Catalog to find films in Skillman and Kirby’s collections. Note that all films available, including those available from streaming services, are including in the Catalog.
To find a specific title…
- Perform a title search in the Library Catalog for the name of a film or television program; (For TV programs with common titles (e.g. “The Wire,” “Rome”) add “television program” to the end of the title (e.g. The wire television program)
OR
- Perform an author search in the Library Catalog for the name of a director, producer, or actor.
To find a film on a particular topic…
- Perform an all fields search in the Library Catalog for a topic. Then choose “Video” and/or “DVD” in the “Format” section on the right of the results page.
To find a film by genre (e.g., horror or film noir) or form (e.g. animated or silent or short)…
To find a film produced in a particular country…
- Perform a subject search in the Library Catalog for feature films [country] (e.g., feature films mexico).
To browse a list of films by release date…
- Perform an all fields search limited to a single year by using the phrase “picture in [year]” (e.g., “picture in 1965″) — the quotation marks must be included. Note: The date displayed on the results list is the year the video was produced, not the year the motion picture was originally released.
- To look at all films from a particular decade, perform an advanced search and use the above structure with an entry for every year of the decade separated by OR (e.g., “picture in 1960″ OR “picture in 1961” OR “picture in 1962” and so on…).
To browse a list of all streaming films available to Lafayette users
To browse a list of all DVDs in the collection