Need help figuring how to track DVD drive usage

I work at a public library and need to track how often the DVD drives are used by our patrons.  Is there some count somewhere of how many times the drive is accessed?  The only other way I can think of to do this is to run a script that will check
if any files exist at E:\ and then sleep for 1 minute and check again. Then, create a log in a central location that the script can update if the file exists. 
Anyone able to come up with a better idea?  I would really appreciate any input.
Thanks
Tamara

Yes, I am a technician.  I work at the library that I am attempting to collect this usage info from.  I just need to know how often our patrons use the drives because we may not offer the drives in the future and I would like to track a couple
months of usage to determine how this will affect the patrons. 
Yes, the PCs are very locked down, but since I am the one that locked them down, I can get the script to run.
Thanks for the info about the event log.  I will work on a script to filter those events.  Seems like that would give me my answer!
Thanks again for the help!
Tamara

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