Here are some new DVDs in the library’s multimedia collection. Faculty are allowed to check out videos up to one week, and students may view videos within the Multimedia Resources Center. Some of these films may also contain public performance rights. For more information, please contact Prof. Junior Tidal.
Blade Runner (4-disc Collector’s Edition) – DVD 2895
httpv://youtu.be/KPcZHjKJBnE
Rockin’ the Wall – DVD 2892
httpv://youtu.be/a1DGdH484MM
Continue reading “Films Added to the Media Collection”
Research got you stumped?
Does research have you confused? Do you not know where to start? Let the library help!
We have video tutorials for everything from renewing a book to choosing a database to supercharging your research. We also have guides to help you with citing sources and avoiding plagiarism.
Check out the library’s list of tutorials at
http://library.citytech.cuny.edu/instruction/tutorials/
If you need more in-depth assistance, you can book a research appointment with a librarian to get one-on-one help with your assignment.
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New! Counseling and Therapy in Video
Counseling and Therapy in Video from Alexander Street is now live. This growing collection will eventually have 400 hours and more than 330 videos. Off-campus access will be available early next week.
New Content for American History in Video
from Alexander Street: There has been another new content load for American History in Video — 1,008 new titles/253 new hours. The collection is now over halfway complete, with 1019 hours live.
Highlights Include:
* Newsreel Films and Black Panther Party Library
11 titles from the 1960’s era, including Columbia Revolt (about the Columbia sit-in) and 10 films from the Black Panther Party Library, including Marty Kenner, Movement Lawyers, Wheelock Conference, and Repression
* Documentary Educational Resources
Six new films, including Indian Self Rule, The Earth Is Our Home, and Kamikaze: Testimonials from WWII Suicide Pilots
* Presidential inauguration footage from the National Archives in Maryland
* Space footage and films from NASA
* Hundreds more releases from Universal Newsreel
In addition to the films themselves there are also many new Release Notes available (seen either in the Newsreel Browse area or in the Summary tab on the video screen)
* The Big Picture Series
From the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, showcasing military life and events of the Korean War era
* Vision USA Series
From the US Information Agency/Department of State, a 1970’s era series presenting American life and history to overseas audiences as a form of diplomacy
*Great archival footage showing campaign ads from 1960, the 1939-1940 World’s Fair, old Native American footage, US film defending the Japanese-American internment, and more
You can see all of the new titles by going to the What’s New page at this link — http://ahiv.alexanderstreet.com/WhatsNew
A Video Version of the Periodic Table
[from the Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus, 8/22/08]
A Video Version of the Periodic Table
The University of Nottingham, in England, has put a high-tech twist on the periodic table, creating a clickable version that points to short YouTube clips about each element.
The Periodic Table of Videos, as their creation is called, features 118 videos, each about 2 minutes long. Scientists perform experiments with the elements or describe unusual properties of each one. In the clip about Beryllium, for instance, a researcher refuses to open a jar holding a sample of the element, explaining that exposure to it can cause a rare and deadly disease. (Another researcher interviewed in the video explains that the element is used in the processing of medical X-rays.)
The “most watched” elemental video, according to the site, is the one for Sodium. If you drop sodium into water, the reaction is explosive, as researchers demonstrate. —Jeffrey R. Young
PubMed Now Indexes Videos of Experiments and Protocols in Life Sciences
For faculty who teach in the life sciences and use visual online resources to enhance learning, this will be of interest:
(from the Chronicle of Higher Ed. Wired Campus) PubMed Central, the National Library of Medicine’s online database, is now indexing videos from The Journal of Visualized Experiments. According to the publication’s official blog, JoVE is “the first video-journal to ever be accepted for publication in PubMed.”
The online, open-access journal publishes videos of experiments and protocols in the biological and life sciences and offers its video-articles to science bloggers to illustrate their posts. <full article>
