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Loras College Library has recently added some new DVDs to the Wilkie Classic Film Collection (see list below). To request a DVD, fill out this form and opt for either an in-building or curbside pickup.

1917	2019
4 Little Girls	1997
42	2013
56 up	2013
Adam Clayton Powell	1989
Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The	1994
Ali	2001
American Me	1992
Arrival	2016
Ballad of Gregorio Cortez	1982
Bamboozled	2000
Beasts of the Southern Wild	2012
Beautiful Day in the neighborhood, A	2020
Beginners	2010
Better Life, A	2011
Beyond the Lights	2014
Birdcage, The	1996
Blood In Blood Out	1993
Bombshell	2019
Booksmart	2019
Boyz n the Hood	1991
BPM (Beats Per Minute)	2017
Call Me By Your Name	2017
Can You Ever Forgive Me?	2018
Carol	2015
Claudine	1974
Coco	2017
Color Purple, The	1985
Dark Girls	2011
Desert Hearts	1985
Desierto	2015
Don't let me drown	2009
Drumline	2002
For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots	2010
Ford v. Ferrari	2019
Free Solo	2018
Freedom Riders	2011
Girlhood	2014
God's Own Country	2017
Good Hair	2009
Gun Hill Road	2011
Hallelujah	1929
Handsome Devil	2016
Happy Together	1997
Harriet	2020
Hedwig and the Angry Inch	2001
I Am Not Your Negro	2017
If Beale Street Could Talk	2018
Interstellar	2014
Irishman, The	2019
Isle of Dogs	2018
Jackie Robinson Story, The	1950
John Lewis: Good Trouble	2020
Jojo Rabbit	2019
Joker	2019
Judy	2019
King: A Filmed Record … Montgomery to Memphis	1970
Knives Out	2019
Little Women	2019
Lost City, The	2005
Love & Basketball	2000
Love, Simon	2018
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom	2013
Marriage Story	2019
Minding the Gap	2018
My Family	1995
Night Catches Us	2010
Nine from Little Rock	1964
Nothing Like the Holidays	2008
Once upon a Time... in Hollywood	2019
Parasite	2019
Pelo Malo (Bad Hair)	2013
Personal Best	1982
Portrait of a Lady on Fire	2019
Queen of Katwe	2017
Raising Victor Vargas	2002
RBG	2018
Real Women Have Curves	2002
Remember the Titans	2000
Residente	2017
Rocketman	2019
Romero	1989
Selena	1997
Single Man, A	2009
Soldier's Story, A	1984
Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse	2018
Spy Kids	2001
Star Wars: the Rise of Skywalker	2019
This post has no comments. Name (Optional) Email Provided email address is invalid. Comment Field is required. Placeholder for captcha question Field is required. No Tags Search Blog Recent Posts Iowa's Hidden Gem: Author Ruth Suckow “When people live in Iowa, they are rather apt to like it” according to Ruth Suckow, the author featured in the display that is visiting the library from October 20th to November 16th, and she would know. ... American Archives Month 2025 The Society of American Archivists have declared October American Archives Month. American Archives Month is intended to raise public awareness about the importance of historic documents and records, and of archives and archivists to our communities.1930's photo of the library when it was in Keane Hall on the 4th and 5th floorsHere at Loras, our archive is closely associated with the Center for Dubuque History. They are both housed on the first floor of the Loras College Library, and they both preserve documents, photographs, and other items that help tell the history of Dubuque, of Loras College (or Columbia College, Dubuque College, St. Joseph’s College, Mount St. Bernard Seminary, St. Raphael’s Seminary, or whatever name Loras went by at the time), and the rest of the community. In the archives, you can browse through old yearbooks (Purgold, Restrosum, Lorian Year in Review), view old magazines, old photos of campus and Dubuque, look through scrapbooks, and so much more. Heidi Pettitt, the archivist here at Loras College Library (and director for the Center for Dubuque History) recommends looking through the Hoffmann-Schneider Funeral records. While funeral records may at first not seem like the most entertaining records, they are incredibly useful and interesting resources that tell us more about what life was like in the past through rituals around death. Archival collections, here and at other archives, are incredibly important tools for historians, and other scholars. The primary sources found in archives are essential components of historians’ work. Genealogists rely upon archival records as they research family trees. These collections help researchers, regardless of discipline, bring history to life. Archival records go beyond dry old files (though there are plenty of those in archival collections as well) and include documents and photos that allow us to glimpse the past. A picture of a football game in the Rock Bowl before the stands were built.While time travel is impossible, looking through an old diary, examining old photographs, reading letters, all allow us to, if only for a brief moment, glimpse the past. We will never know what it was like to arrive in what is now Dubuque before the city was built, what it was like to witness the crash of the stock market and the ensuing Great Depression, or what it felt like the first year women were allowed to study at Loras, but we can begin to piece together all of those events through archival records. Don’t discount archival records as you research. You can never tell what new discovery you’ll make! To see for yourself, visit this page, and set up an appointment to view archival collections here. ... Banned Books Week 2025 Banned Books Week is an annual event sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and the Banned Books Coalition. Banned Books Week began in 1982, in response to a sudden surge in book challenges, and is held yearly, highlighting the books that have been challenged the most in the previous year, in a celebration of the freedom to read, even when books are challenged. This year’s theme is, “Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights.” ALA President Cindy Hohl says, “The 2025 theme of Banned Books Week serves as a reminder that censorship efforts persist to this day. We must always come together to stand up for the right to read.”Book challenges and bans have increased drastically in the last five years, both in Iowa and across the country. There is an ongoing court case in Iowa, Penguin Random House v. Robbins, where Penguin Random House, the Iowa State Education Association, a group of popular authors, Iowa parents, and others have challenged a 2023 Iowa State Law banning books. Read more about the court case here. Read about an injunction filed against that law earlier here.The celebration of Banned Books week is a celebration of the freedom to read. The Banned Books Honors group is partnering with the Philosophy Department to host a philosophical exploration of banned books, examining the ethical, political, and cultural questions raised by censorship and the suppression of Ideas on October 9 in the Loras College Pub from 7-8:30pm. If you can’t make it to the event in the Pub, you can participate in Banned Books Week by reading a banned book, and learning more about the dangers of censorship and what it looks like in 2025. For more ideas, check out this page from the ALA.Every year the ALA creates a list of the top 10 banned books of the previous year, drawing on data from news stories and voluntary reporting from libraries around the United States. With top 10 lists dating back to 1999, the lists record the titles of banned books, as well as the reasons they were banned, showing the shifting reasons books are challenged and banned. Check out this year’s list here.Interested in reading banned books? Check out our collection of banned books on the 1st floor, and see what the fuss is all about for yourself. Interested in the 2024 data on banned books? Here’s the official Banned Books Week website. ... Brain Health Awareness Week 2025 This week we welcome to the blog Italee Castellon from the Counseling Center to talk about Brain Health Awareness Week (October 5-11, 2025) here on campus.According to Mental Health America’s (MHA) 2025 calendar, October is a month full of awareness and specifically holds Mental Illness Awareness Week (Oct. 5-11). Loras is choosing to move forward calling this week “Brain Health Awareness Week” as Mental Health is inherently Brain Health. Our brain is an incredibly powerful organ that is in control of so many important features of the body and self; including how we think, how we move, how we behave, how we experience sensations, and overall well-being. Everything that the brain is responsible for – mental and physical – is a part of brain health.Being able to maintain good brain health is essential to everyone’s overall wellness. Brain health conditions and mental health diagnoses are common, manageable, and treatable. According to MHA’s Quick Facts and Statistics (2025), 1 in 5 people will experience a mental health condition in any given year and approximately half of Americans will meet the criteria for a diagnosable mental health condition sometime in their lives. Many times, the symptoms begin to appear after the age of 14 years old and especially pop up in late adolescence/early adulthood.What Loras tries to promote during Brain Health Awareness Week is education on brain health, encouraging and enabling people with healthy coping strategies, and contributing to destigmatization in the community. The public’s knowledge and understanding of brain health has moved in a more positive direction over the last 20 years – it is our duty to continue the spread the kindness, hope, and understanding for our Duhawks that have been affected by brain health in their lives. Look out for the events coming up during that week hosted by the Loras Counseling Center and be a part of the change and promotion for better brain health for everyone. ... Subscribe Stay tuned with our latest news! Subscribe now and get notified when a new post is uploaded. Email Provided email address is invalid. 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