Netflix lists?
May. 23rd, 2005 12:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
celticdragonflyDear flist, help me out here.
I've been watching some videos from the library with the kids. It's been nice, I can actually sit and knit and get Jamie to sit next to me and only mess with my knitting now and then, a vast improvement. We're not watching kid videos - well, we're watching some of that, but that's not what I'm checking out from the library. What I'm getting is generally nonfiction, documentaries and historical stuff, stuff that's kid safe but adult interesting. Recent stuff included a video on the Shakers, an A&E series on Victoria and Albert, and in the upcoming queue is a video on wolves with one of my favorite actors hosting.
I want to find more of this. It's hard to go through the nonfiction videos at the local library, as the aisles are close enough that Jamie in his stroller can grab stuff from both sides, and he does. I love getting books and such through the computer system, I can search the whole library system, not just one branch, and they bring them to the one library to pick them up, and have them on hold up front. Bliss. But I'm having a hard time searching out videos by subject that way, you can limit the search to videocassettes in theory, but it doesn't seem to work.
I want to find stuff like A&E series, History channel stuff, Discovery channel stuff. Stuff like Connections, but later, and oh I wish I could remember the name of that series Karl has one taped-from-cable tape of somewhere buried, the one with one of the Monty Python guys doing interesting historical stuff, like bathing habits in imperial Rome and how and why China developed the clock.
So I figure a lot of you have Netflix, and some of you may have similar tastes. Please recommend specific titles to me. I can search on them in the library database (anyone feeling particularly inspired to be helpful is welcome to look and see if they have it yourself, http://fwplipac.fortworthlibrary.org/ ), and then have the darling helpful library minions find them for me and send them down to the SW branch, which surely will start greeting me by name at the front desk any time now.
Thanks!
I've been watching some videos from the library with the kids. It's been nice, I can actually sit and knit and get Jamie to sit next to me and only mess with my knitting now and then, a vast improvement. We're not watching kid videos - well, we're watching some of that, but that's not what I'm checking out from the library. What I'm getting is generally nonfiction, documentaries and historical stuff, stuff that's kid safe but adult interesting. Recent stuff included a video on the Shakers, an A&E series on Victoria and Albert, and in the upcoming queue is a video on wolves with one of my favorite actors hosting.
I want to find more of this. It's hard to go through the nonfiction videos at the local library, as the aisles are close enough that Jamie in his stroller can grab stuff from both sides, and he does. I love getting books and such through the computer system, I can search the whole library system, not just one branch, and they bring them to the one library to pick them up, and have them on hold up front. Bliss. But I'm having a hard time searching out videos by subject that way, you can limit the search to videocassettes in theory, but it doesn't seem to work.
I want to find stuff like A&E series, History channel stuff, Discovery channel stuff. Stuff like Connections, but later, and oh I wish I could remember the name of that series Karl has one taped-from-cable tape of somewhere buried, the one with one of the Monty Python guys doing interesting historical stuff, like bathing habits in imperial Rome and how and why China developed the clock.
So I figure a lot of you have Netflix, and some of you may have similar tastes. Please recommend specific titles to me. I can search on them in the library database (anyone feeling particularly inspired to be helpful is welcome to look and see if they have it yourself, http://fwplipac.fortworthlibrary.org/ ), and then have the darling helpful library minions find them for me and send them down to the SW branch, which surely will start greeting me by name at the front desk any time now.
Thanks!
