It’s Tim Burton’s birthday! Check out some of these titles available for check out from the Media Services Home Use Collection. 9 – HU DVD 7049 Alice in Wonderland – HU DVD 7719 Alice in Wonderland – HU BLU-RAY 7719 Batman – HU DVD 4701 Batman Returns – HU DVD 4702 Big Fish – HU […]
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Media Services Survives the East Coast Earthquake
That’s right Media Services is still standing after yesterday’s east coast earthquake. The media shelves wobbled, but no DVDs fell off the shelves. Like most everyone else we were watching people’s first responses on Twitter. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter @aulibmedia. Also, here’s a list of some earthquake-related videos available in Media Services. […]
Continue readingFilmography – Food Production
The Media Services contribution to the Library Subject Guides is a selective list of video holdings in the American University Library. Filmographies are created by doing multiple keyword searches in the ALADIN catalog to capture as many titles on a topic as possible. For complete up-to-date holdings (including VHS tapes) please refer to the library […]
Continue readingCheck out these NASA related films in Media Services!!
On Friday, August 5 an Atlas V rocket lofted the Juno spacecraft toward Jupiter from Space Launch Complex-41. The 4-ton Juno spacecraft will take five years to reach Jupiter on a mission to study its structure and decipher its history. Check out the launch footage below, and check out some cool NASA related videos below. […]
Continue readingIt’s Shark Week!!
As you probably already know, this is Discovery Channel’s Shark Week. In case you don’t have the Discovery Channel at home, here are a few Home Use titles that may help you get your shark fix. The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D – HU DVD 5499Endless Summer Revisited – HU DVD 179Finding Nemo […]
Continue readingAV Club visits Wire locations in Baltimore Part 1
The blog, the AV Club recently posted about visiting some Wire locations in Baltimore. Here’s what they have to say, and be sure to check out the video below. The Wire (Complete Series) – HU DVD 2861 – 2883 As The A.V. Club discovered, there’s an upside to having much of your perception of Baltimore […]
Continue readingSelected New Home Use Titles in Media Services
Here’s a list of some of the newest additions to our collection. In some cases, we simply got a second copy of a title we already had or added a season to a TV series. However, we did just acquire the entire Friends series all at once; all 40 discs of it! Mississippi Masala – […]
Continue reading75th Anniversary of Gone with the Wind
Today marks the 75th Anniversary of the novel by Margaret Mitchell. Gone With the Wind was published in June 1936. Mitchell was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her sweeping novel the following May. It was made into an equally famous motion picture starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable. The movie had its world premiere at […]
Continue readingEthnographic Video Online – Hundreds More Titles Added!!
Ethnographic Video Online of Alexander Street Press provides the largest, most comprehensive resource for the study of human culture and behavior – more than 750 hours and 1,000 films at completion. The collection covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, […]
Continue readingEva Gabrielsson on the Diane Rehm Show
Eva Gabrielsson: “’There Are Things I Want You to Know’ About Stieg Larsson and Me” Seven years ago, Swedish journalist and author Stieg Larsson suffered a heart attack. He died without ever knowing the success of his Millennium trilogy. The books – “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, “The Girl Who Played With Fire” and […]
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