This collection provides over 41,000 high quality streaming video on a wide-variety of topics. Subjects covered include business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics, as well as travel and fitness programming, home and how-to videos, and popular music performances. The videos include Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries plus interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels.
Features include: Captioning and cross-searchable interactive transcripts on all titles; iPad, PC, Mac, and Android friendly; Public performance rights; Citations in MLA, CMS, and APA formats; ability to embed persistent and authenticated video clips into course management systems such as Blackboard and Moodle; an Create and share personalized playlists using segments from multiple videos.
Films on Demand offers instructional films in the following categories. See what else it offers by doing a search of the database.
Docuseek2 provides exclusive educational streaming acces to documentary and social issues films.
Content is from a variety of companies, including Bullfrog Films, Collective Eye Films, Icarus Films (including The Fanlight Collection and dGenerate Films), Kartemquin Films, Sincerely Films, Terra Nova Films and Villon Films. The library will continually add new titles to the collection.
Docuseek offers browsable options. Simply click, "Subjects" and review the categories. Look for "Global/International Studies" to start.
Contemporary World Music will contain 50,000 tracks that deliver the sounds of all regions of the world. The current release (2010) includes 2,047 albums, equaling 27,644 tracks from many labels, including: Topic, Playasound, Budamusique, Air Mail Music, Manuiti, Crossing Records, Lyrichord World Music, Navras Records, and INEDIT. Liner notes to all the albums are included (in PDF format) as well as static URLs to each track and album in the database.
Contemporary World Music contains important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music, Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
Music & Performing Arts combines music audio and video that spans all time periods, and includes hundreds of thousands of seminal artists.
Every object in the collection is indexed for subjects, historical events, genres, people, cultural groups, places, time periods, ensembles. Music & Performing Arts is an online music resource that cross-searches all of Belk library's Alexander Street Press music databases. Included sections are:
American Song Classical Music Library Contemporary World Music Jazz Music Library Popular Music Library Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
Popular Music Library contains a wide range of popular music from around the world, including hundreds of thousands of tracks from major genres in pop music.
Genres covered include alternative, blues, country, Christian, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk, new age, R&B, reggae, rock, soundtracks and many more.
The latest release of Smithsonian Global Sound (2010) includes 2,969 albums, equalling 42,622 tracks.
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. Genres include; African American, American Folk, American Indian, Bluegrass, Blues, Cajun/Zydeco, Caribbean, Chamber, Children's Songs, Contemporary, Contemporary classical, Dance, Drama, Hip-hop, Humor, Indian Classical, Instrumental, Jazz, Latin, Opera/Operetta, Orchestral, Rock, Sacred, Spoken Word and Sounds, Stage and Screen, Traditional, Vocal and Choral, and World.
