Exhibits, Events & News

Filmakers Library Online provides award winning documentaries independent films with relevance across the curriculum: race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions worldwide. This release now provides 1,017 titles, equaling approximately 803 hours.

Among the hundreds of notable independent film makers worldwide whose works make up Filmakers Library Online are Christine Choy, Roger Weisberg, Josh Aronson, David Bradbury, Judith Gleason, Jeremy Levine & Landon Van Soest, Aaron Matthews, Jeffrey O'Connor, Tana Ross, and Taggart Siegel.

Environment Index offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.

Environment Index contains more than 2.4 million records from more than 2,200 domestic and international titles going back to 1888 (including more than 1,350 active core titles) as well as more than 200 monographs.

Research is FUN when you know where & how to look for INFORMATION!

The Library is offering two 1-credit classes in Fall 2012 that have been designed to improve students' research skills across disciplines.

Classical Music in Video will be the definitive online collection for the study of classical music in video format.  At completion it will contain 1,000 hours of classical music performances and master classes captured on video - approximately 1,500 performances in all. The collection will contain performances of all forms of classical music, including major orchestral performances by leading orchestras, plus chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances, along with master classes and interviews with master teachers from around the world.

Scope

Coverage of musical time periods spans Medieval to the 21^st century, and performances cover historical recordings from the 1950s up to the most current recordings today.