Selected New Home Use Titles

Eugenia Grandet – HU DVD 6764Point Break – HU DVD 6765The Brother From Another Planet – HU DVD 6766Sweet Mud – HU DVD 6767Laila’s Birthday – HU DVD 6768Streamers – HU DVD 6769The Girlfriend Experience – HU DVD 6770The Girl Can’t Help It – HU DVD 6771Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? – HU DVD 6772The […]

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Today in the AU Library: Lawrence Lessig Webcast

6 pm – 7:30 pm, Training and Events Room (library 1st floor) Open Video Community Day Webcast: Open Access advocate Lawrence Lessiglectures on copyright in the digital age and “fair use” which allowslimited use of copyrighted material for commentary, criticism,teaching and scholarship. Please Note: This is a webcast. Lawrence Lessig will not be here in […]

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Streaming Video: One Degree Matters

I went looking for distributors of films that will be screened in the upcoming Environmental Film Festival and discovered One Degree Matters is available in its entirety on Vimeo. Here’s the Film Festival’s blurb on it: ONE DEGREE MATTERS (Denmark, 2009, 57 min.) This documentary follows social and business leaders as they travel to Greenland […]

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Academy Awards Best Picture Nominees

They’ve upped the list to ten this year. Five aren’t yet on video but the other five can be found in the Media Services collection. Avatar – Not yet on video.The Blind Side – Not yet on video.District 9 – DVD 6686An Education – Not yet on video.The Hurt Locker – DVD 6762Inglourious Basterds – […]

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Selected New Home Use Titles

Dead Man’s Shoes – HU DVD 6540The Spy Who Came In From The Cold – HU DVD 6458Adventureland – HU DVD 6464Chronicle Of A Disappearance – HU DVD 6465Beaufort – HU DVD 6466Drawn From Memory – HU DVD 6467Yellow Asphalt – HU DVD 6468Lemon Tree – HU DVD 6469Fast Times At Ridgemont High – HU […]

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Netflix- window to our souls

The New York Times website has a great interactive map of Netflix data which shows the popularity of various movie rentals across zip codes. They’ve mapped twelve major urban areas including DC. The maps reveal unexpected patterns. Why does I Love You Man, the Paul Rudd tour de force, stand out in zip code 20057 […]

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