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 […]
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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 readingFilmaker’s Library – Almost 1,000 documentaries!
Cool News! We now have a perpetual license for Filmakers Library videos via Alexander Street Press – Almost 1000 documentaries with something for every academic area taught at AU. Filmakers Library Online provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the […]
Continue readingFilms on Demand now on iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch!
All of the Films On Demand videos have been re-encoded in H.264 format to allow playback on any iOS device. With their new video player, you can now watch any titles in our Films On Demand collection on an iPad, iPod Touch, or iPhone. And their new design is optimized to allow easy navigation of […]
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 readingFrom Inside Higher Ed: Discouraging EDU lessons from Netflix streaming
How Netflix viewing habits reflect on students’ use of course materials. Discouraging EDU lessons from Netflix streaming
Continue readingBill Introduced to Make Streaming a Criminal Offense
Senators Amy Klobuchar, John Cornyn, and Christopher Coons have introduced a bill amending Copyright Act by making public performance of [infringed] media a criminal offense, in addition to the current civil penalties. There are provisions within the amendment that would especially apply to electronic contexts. See Bill full text.See Techdirt story.
Continue reading300+ Free movies Online: Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns…
Where to watch free movies online? This may be too good to be true, but it appears to be a site attempting to be a gateway to legitimate streams of feature films online. OpenCulture.com has put together a list of 300+ quality films that you can watch online. The collection is divided into the following […]
Continue readingNew Streaming Video Collection – Media Education Foundation
Media Services now has streaming video versions of 43 of the best documentaries from Media Education Foundation. This makes them available to watch for AU students and faculty, directly from the ALADIN catalog. Media Services also has DVD or VHS copies of all of these as well as over 60 other MEF titles. MEF is […]
Continue readingBig surprise. Online video viewing up from last year
From MediaPost.com:“According to a recent release by Nielsen, online video usage in the U.S. is up considerably from the same time last year, as time spent viewing video on PC/Mac/laptops from home and work locations increased by 45%. Although the number of unique online video viewers only increased by 3.1% from last January, level of […]
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