Videos via the Library: an overview

The Library owns feature, documentary, and instructional films on DVD, VHS, and streaming format. Laura goes to see a film and doesn't realize that her fellow audience members are all zombies.

Films are housed behind the AskUs Desk, to your right as you enter the Library.

Students can watch VHS and DVD recordings in-house.

Faculty members may check-out videos. Faculty members, please see the Video Bookings information page to book videos for classroom use.

Students may check videos out of the Library for use in a classroom presentation by having their professor fill out the Video/DVD Request for Student Presentation Form.

Photo Credit: Watching Movies with Zombies

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Online Video Collections

The Library subscribes to a number of streaming video collections:

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Your feedback sought! Ideas? Improvements?

All ideas and comments on content, arrangement, etc. are welcome. Thanks - Ellen

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Finding DVD, Streaming, and VHS videos in the Auraria Library

Search for Videos on Skyline

Start on the Auraria Library home page.
Click Skyline on left side of the screen.

The search default is words. Use words (a.ka keywords) to describe the subject of a film. For example: Civil War; sustainable architecture; genetic fingerprinting; hip hop; Jane Austin

Pull down Location menu box and choose Film & Video to limit search to DVD or VHS films -- OR
Pull down Material Type menu box and choose Streaming Videos to limit search to streaming format
Click Search

To search by title, go to Skyline and click on Title from the header choices. Type in the title of the video.

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Free University Courses, Lectures, Classic Feature Films, and Educational Films on the Web

Academic Earth
American Memory Collection
Historic collections from the Library of Congress includes primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. For moving images Choose: Browse Collections containing Motion Pictures.
American RadioWorks (ARW) Documentaries
These online documentaries complement ARW radio projects, providing background, original photography, interactive elements and streaming audio of the radio documentaries.
Annenberg Media Resources
Educational streaming video programs for high school and college courses.
C-SPAN Library

C-SPAN televises U.S. political events, particularly live and gavel to gavel coverage of the U.S. Congress as well as occasional proceedings of major events worldwide. Its coverage of political and policy events is unedited, thereby providing viewers with unfiltered information about politics and government. Non-political coverage includes: historical programming, programs dedicated to non-fiction books and interview programs with noteworthy individuals connected to public policy.
Documentary Heaven
Thousands of free online documentaries!
Edutopia
Innovative practice models in K-12 public schools.
EduTube
Europa Film Treasures
A collection of early and silent cinema from around the world made available for streaming online. Film Studies researchers take note!
Internet Archive: Moving Pictures Archive
Movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many available for free download.
iTunes U.
Khan Academy
Thousands of educational videos.
Lannan Foundation Videos
Free streaming videos featuring conversations and readings from writers, scholars, and activists. Most of these films are also cataloged through the Auraria Library's catalog.
MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resource for Online Learning and Teaching
MIT World
MIT Open Courseware
Open University - Open Learn
Research Channel
Stanford Engineering Everywhere
TED - Ideas Worth Spreading
UChannel
University of California at Berkeley on Google
Yovisto: Academic Video Search
Specializing in educational content, Yovisto unearths university lectures and other educational programs.
Watch Know Learn
Free educational videos gathered from other sites, vetted, and intended for K-12 learning.

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Free/Cheap Films on the Internet

Blinkx
This video search engines searches many video sites simultaneously.
Video Surf
a video search engine. "Basing its search on visual identification, rather than text only, VideoSurf’s computer vision video search engine provides more relevant results and a better experience to let users find and discover the videos they really want to watch."
YouTube
Daily Motion (http://www.dailymotion.com) and TeacherTube (http://www.teachertube.com.)
Snag Films
Free full length documentaries.
Vimeo
Shared videos.
Hulu.com
Television shows which include short commercials.
Crackle
An outlet for popular films and television shows, comparable to Hulu.
GoogleVideo
Daily Motion
Large video-sharing site.
AOL Video
Millions of free, high quality videos including music videos, news clips, movie trailers, viral videos, and full-length TV shows.
How Cast
"How to" videos. Many are light-hearted.
A zillion links to movie sites
Some good; some bad. You decide!
Vudu.com
Not free but quite inexpensive video-on-demand site.