Welcome to the Stacks, a website dedicated to maintaining and organizing a mixed-media collection of movies. Movies have been an important part of entertainment for generations, and collecting them can be a fun way to preserve favorite stories, characters, performances, and memories. The purpose of this website is to create an organized place where information about a personal movie collection can be recorded and maintained. Instead of keeping track of movies only by looking at shelves or searching through different streaming services, The Stacks will provide a way to keep important information about each movie together in one location.
The collection can include movies in several different formats, including DVD, Blu-ray, and digital copies. Keeping track of these different formats is an important part of maintaining a mixed-media collection because the same movie may be available in more than one format. Information such as the movie title, release year, genre, format, and whether a physical or digital copy is available can help make the collection easier to manage. This website can also eventually be expanded with additional information such as directors, actors, running times, ratings, purchase dates, and the physical location of a movie within a collection.
One of the things that interests me about movie collections is that they can represent more than just entertainment. A collection can reflect personal interests and memories while also preserving movies that might otherwise become difficult to find. Physical media can also provide an alternative to relying entirely on streaming services. The goal of The Stacks is to combine the enjoyment of collecting movies with the usefulness of an organized database. As this project develops, new pages and features can be added to make searching, organizing, and maintaining the collection easier. This website is the beginning of that project and will eventually becoma a digital catalog for my mixed-media movie collection.
