The Oscars were handed out last night with The Hurt Locker coming away as the big winner. It received six total awards including Best Picture and Best Director for Kathryn Bigelow. It is the first time a woman has taken home the Oscar for Best Director. Below are the winners and nominees in each...

The nominees for the 2010 Academy Awards, which will be presented on Sunday March 7, have been announced.  Movies receiving the most nominations include Avatar (9), The Hurt Locker (9), Inglourious Basterds (8), Precious (6), Up in the Air (6), and Up (5).  This year the Best Picture category...

Circulation of Audio/Visual materials at the library increased 8.3% in 2009, including 641,900 checkouts of items from the Adult DVD and VHS collections.

Find out what the Top 10 most popular DVDs were in 2009 at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library. 

How many of these popular films have you watched?

Have you heard the good news?  

6 is the new 4

Beginning Tuesday, January 19, 2010, the checkout limit for both Entertainment and Non-Fiction DVDs was increased from four to six per customer.

Customers may check out a total of six Entertainment DVDs from the Adult and Youth collections, and a total of six Non-Fiction DVDs from the Adult and Youth collections.

Non-fiction DVDs and VHS cassettes have been moved to the non-fiction stacks and interfiled with books on the same topics. The materials are shelved by Dewey Decimal numbers.

The audiobooks on CD, Playaways, new Audiobooks, and some audiobooks on cassette are shelved in the Media Center.

The library also maintains subject neighborhoods like Health, Travel, or Job and Career to improve access to library materials and make browsing for information more intuitive.