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Our collections and videos are available to library and educational institutions through annual subscription or a one-time purchase of perpetual rights.
Reserve Your Seat for an ALA Event
If you haven’t already responded, please do so and join the hundreds of people who are attending the Alexander Street Customer Appreciation Breakfast. Our guest speaker is the professor, cultural critic, and journalist Michael Bronski, author of A Queer History of the United States, which won multiple awards, including ALA’s 2012 GLBT Round Table Israel Fishman / Stonewall Award. Publisher’s Weekly hailed the book “…as intellectually rigorous as it is entertaining.” Bronski is Professor at Harvard University and Senior Lecturer at Dartmouth College. He’s authored numerous award-winning books and has received several awards for "helping improve the lives of LGBT people in the United States."
And please join us for one or more discussion group or training sessions, led by senior editors, to share feedback and insight into products, platforms, and tools. Meet colleagues, ask questions, enjoy refreshments, and enter to win a one-year subscription to one of our resources!
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Join Us For a Webex Discussion
Spend 30 minutes and walk away with a lot! Our music and video editors—Liz Dutton and Jordan White—will be hosting a series of WebEx meetings to give you a sneak peek of our brand-new interface and an update on even more new features coming soon. Liz and Jordan will show you key features and functionality, including best ways to search and how to create custom clips and playlists. These WebEx discussions will be equally relevant to librarians, faculty, students, and other users. Whether you already have access to some of our music or video resources, or you're just looking to learn more, please join us! We know you’ll take away a lot of ideas and quick tips for increasing your usage and helping your users.
Music Online Training Sessions
Wednesday, July 24 2:00 pm EDT
Streaming Video Training Sessions
Wednesday, July 24 9:00 am EDT
Wednesday, July 24 9:00 pm EDT
Music Online and Streaming Video WebEx recording
marketing [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com (subject: Link%20to%20Music%20Online%20WebEx) (Click here) to request a prerecorded presentation by music editor Liz Dutton. Feel free to share with colleagues to watch at their convenience.
New Interface for VAST: Academic Video Online and Music Online
We have big news. We’ve been creating a new interface for VAST: Academic Video Online and Music Online, and we’re getting ready to preview it this June. The new functionality will be more intuitive, the multidisciplinary content will load and play faster than ever before, and the powerful teaching, learning, and research tools will offer unprecedented ways to explore, share, and connect with information. And we have lots of extras for you, too—we’ve heard you loud and clear and have built an administrator portal chock full of helpful tools and support.
- Read the FAQ
- Read the Feature Overview for VAST: Academic Video Online
- Read the Feature Overview for Music Online
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