(ALEXANDRIA, VA) – Alexander Street recently launched a new collection -- 60 MINUTES: 1997–2014 -- in partnership with CBS News. This new resource grants unprecedented access to the 60 MINUTES news program from this period, including many episodes not widely seen since their original broadcast. The entire collection is only available from Alexander Street for the library market.

The database provides 350 hours of high-definition video from eighteen years of broadcasts. True to 60 MINUTES’ iconic style, each news segment within the collection serves as a standalone short documentary on a specific news topic. The resource also includes 175 hours of bonus material from the popular CBS News program Sunday Morning. The addition of this programming brings the collection to a total of 525 hours of CBS News content.

The collection is now available to libraries worldwide via annual subscription or perpetual license. Libraries may also request a free 30-day trial of the collection at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/60MINUTES.

Libraries attending the American Library Association’s Annual Conference in San Francisco this week can enter to win a free one-year subscription to 60 MINUTES:  1997–2014 at booth #918.

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About 60 MINUTES
60 MINUTES, the most successful television broadcast in history, is in its 47th season on the CBS Television Network. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast begun in 1968 is still a hit in 2015, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10. Over the 2013–14 season, 60 Minutes continued its dominance as the number-one news program, drawing an average of 12.2 million viewers per week—almost twice the audience of its nearest network news magazine competitor.

Contact for Media Inquiries/Reviewer Access:
Kelly Latham, Director of Marketing
Alexander Street
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x 115
klatham [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com