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Increasing Faculty Usage of Streaming Video

Submitted by admin on December 16, 2015 - 7:38am

On April 26th, President of Alexander Street Press Stephen Rhind-Tutt and Vice President of product development Peter Cieffetti, along with Kim Stanton of The University of North Texas gave a free webcast on "Increasing Faculty Usage of Streaming Video."

If you were unable to attend the live webcast, you can download and listen to the archived version by clicking here!

The presentation showed use cases of how streaming can be used, including:

  • Examples of how video can improve research
  • Examples of how video has been combined to improve learning for specific courses
  • Examples of how to annotate and publish video

 

 

New Content Upload - Music Collections

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The following Music Online collections have been updated with new content:

 

American Song

212 albums (4,467 tracks) from Archeophone Records, Appleseed Records, Mark Custom, Rebel, Sun, and Tompkins Square Records. Content includes new releases of bluegrass, boogie-woogie, country, traditional gospel, marching band music, and more.

New albums include:

Dance in Video

11 videos of performances, interviews, and documentaries - including performances of three ballets by Kenneth MacMillan performed by The Royal Ballet, documentaries on Irish Step Dancing, the Bejart Ballet Lausanne, samba dancing, and interviews with Charles "Honi" Coles and Marcia McFee.

Jazz Music Library

67 albums (1,390 tracks) from Mark Custom, Jazzology, Haenssler, Mode/Avant, GHB Records, and Progressive. Content includes new releases of swing, avant-garde jazz, bebop, New Orleans jazz, vocal jazz, big band, and west coast jazz from performers such as Art Pepper, Frank Sinatra, Jabbo Smith, Respect Sextet, Red Norvo Combo, Cullen Offer Quartet, and more,

New albums include:

Classical Scores Library: Volume II

650 scores (20,418 pages) from Faber Music, Wirripang, and a wide variety of never before been published individual composers. We've also released more scores from The Symphony 1720-1840 series from Garland Publishing/Barry S Brook Center.

Newly published composers include: Huck Hodge, Thomas Oboe Lee, Matt Malsky, Thomas Reiner, Yotam Haber, Moya Henderson, Katia Tiutiunnik, Marc Yeats, and more.

New content from Faber includes scores by Julian Anderson, Benjamin Britten, and Frank Bridge. New content from Wirripang includes scores by Houston Dunleavy, John Spence, Paul Paviour, Frank Millward, Miriam Beatrice Hyde, Larry Sitsky, May Howlett, Vincent Giles, Phillip Wilcher, and more.

Classical Scores Library: Volume II now contains 37,158 pages and 1,261 scores

Contemporary World Music

247 albums (3,908 tracks) from ARC Music, Buda Musique, Celestial Harmonies, Merusa Records, PAN Records, Playasound, Six Degrees Records, World Circuit and more.

New material includes artists and ensembles such as the Buena Vista Social Club, Ali Farka Touré, Afro-Cuban All Stars, Toumani Diabate, Benga Beat, Dastan Ensemble, Didier Petit, The Wonder Rabbis, Merusa All Stars, and more.

New albums include:

All of this content is available worldwide.

For more information, please contact sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com

New Content Upload - Filmakers Library Online

Submitted by admin on December 16, 2015 - 7:38am

Twenty new videos (19 globally) have been added to Filmakers Library Online are currently available in the collection! Here are some of the highlights from the newly added content:

Notable & Award Winning Films (all available globally):

Westbeth Home of the Arts

This documentary takes a lively look at Westbeth, the first and largest federally funded artists’ colony in the United States, which became home to a generation of artists grateful for cheap rent and a place to live and work.

Awards: Manhattan Film Festival (official selection); New Filmmakers New York (official selection); Riverside International Film Festival

When the Day Comes: Women as Caregivers

Women, traditionally, are expected to cope with family responsibilities and to provide care without financial rewards. While their efforts reduce society's longterm care costs, the caregivers go largely unnoticed and get little help from others. In this documentary we hear from four women who have provided continuous care for a loved one.

Awards: National Council on Aging, 1993; National Women's Studies Association, 1993; Bronze Apple, National Educational Film & Video Association, 1993; National Council on Family Relations, 1991 & International Festival of Red Cross and Health Films, 1991

Modus Operandi: The German Occupation of Belgium

From 1942 to 1944, 24,916 Jewish men, women and children were deported from Belgium to Auschwitz. Only 1,206 survived. This documentary raises and systematically answers the question: how did just a handful of Nazis— with the help, voluntary or unwitting— of the Belgian authorities, bring about their destruction? The film covers the sequence of events and different phases that led to the Final Solution.

“Modus Operandi is as much a film on current events as an historical documentary, as it shows so forcefully that once a finger is caught in the gears of stigmatisation and demonisation, the whole body may eventually go through the works.”
                -Fernand Denis, La Libre Belgiqu

Full list of new content can be found at http://flon.alexanderstreet.com/WhatsNew

Register now - Increasing Faculty Usage of Streaming Video: A Webcast

Submitted by admin on December 16, 2015 - 7:38am
Register for this FREE webcast today!
 
We estimate that more than 50 percent of academic libraries now offer streaming video services. Departments ranging from anthropology to zoology are now incorporating video content into their classes.
 
This presentation will show use cases of how streaming video can be used, including:
  • Examples of how video can improve research
  • Examples of how video has been combined to improve learning for specific courses
  • Examples of how to annotate and publish video
Librarians and faculty will learn how to get the most out of their video resources, how video can be promoted in the library, which departments can benefit the most, as well as a technical understanding of what cutting-edge technology now makes possible. Existing users of streaming video will leave with new ideas and those who’ve yet to offer streaming resources will be better able to make a decision on whether it’s worth it.
 
Panelists
 
Stephen Rhind-TuttStephen Rhind-Tutt, President and founder, Alexander Street Press
Pete CiuffettiPete Ciuffetti, Vice president of product development, Alexander Street Press
Kim StantonKim Stanton, Head of the media library, University of North Texas






 










 

Moderator
 

Cheryl LaGuardiaCheryl LaGuardia, Head of instructional services, Harvard College Library

 
Can't make it on April 26? No problem! Register now and you will get an email reminder from Library Journal post-live event when the webcast is archived and available for on-demand viewing at your convenience.

 

Lynn Novick at ALA Midwinter Dallas 2012

Submitted by admin on December 16, 2015 - 7:38am

Lynn Novick, film director and producer, spoke about her work on the recent film Prohibition, with Ken Burns, at Alexander Street's Customer Appreciation Breakfast at the Midwinter Conference of the American Library Association. Alexander Street hosts the breakfast twice a year, and this time 311 librarians were treated to Novick's compelling presentation showcasing the political and cultural parallels between life today and during Prohibition. The audience also got a glimpse of Alexander Street's plans for new products and services in 2012. To learn more, view president Stephen Rhind-Tutt's presentation here.

                                                     

Video Presentation by Stephen Rhind-Tutt: Charting Vanishing Voices

Submitted by admin on December 16, 2015 - 7:38am

This presentation was given at the Charting Vanishing Voices Workshop in Cambridge, UK on July 29, 2012.

This practical workshop brought university-based researchers in anthropology, geography and linguistics into conversation with representatives from international organisations that aggregate and disseminate large holdings of ethnographic and linguistic data. Through brief presentations and extended discussions, participants explored innovative ways of visualising cultural and linguistic diversity and shared techniques and tools for representing endangerment, both cartographically and geospatially.

Download the Power Point Presentation here.

 

 

 

 

Save the Date: Customer Appreciation Breakfast with Temple Grandin

Submitted by admin on December 16, 2015 - 7:38am

If you’ll be in Seattle for ALA Midwinter, please join Alexander Street Press for our customer appreciation breakfast on Sunday, January 27, 2013 at 7:30am.

In addition to offering a delicious hot breakfast and sharing information about Alexander Street’s newest collections, our event will feature a rare appearance by guest speaker Temple Grandin, world-renowned animal scientist and bestselling author.

Named one of 2010’s TIME 100 People, and featured in the Emmy®-award winning biopic Temple Grandin, Dr. Grandin is celebrated for sharing her experiences of living with autism. Her work is featured in The Boy Inside and The Spectrum of Autism, films in Alexander Street’s Health and Society in Video collection. VAST: Academic Video Online also features her work, along with more than 35 other videos about the autism spectrum.

This event will fill quickly, so RSVP now!
You’ll also learn the latest details about our new and forthcoming video databases, including:
  • Asian Studies in Video
  • Black Studies in Video
  • Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume III
  • Dental Education in Video
  • Ethnographic Video Online: Volume II
  • LGBT Thought and Culture
  • Twentieth Century Religious Thought Volume I: Christianity
  • World War II Newsreels, 1929–1946
  • Plus: Developments in VAST: Academic Video Online and Music Online
WHEN: Sunday, January 27, 2013
 
TIME: 7:30 am to 9:00 am

WHERE: The Westin, Grand II and III
1900 5th Avenue
Seattle, WA
 
RSVP: This event is by invitation only. We expect seats to fill quickly, so RSVP today! If another key decision maker is attending ALA, please forward this invitation to that person.

For more information on these and our other collections, or to request a trial, visit http://www.alexanderstreet.com.

We hope to see you in Seattle!

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