We’re Now In Walker Library!

We made the move at the end of fall semester. The computers are set up.  Our offices are getting the final touches. When classes begin, we’ll be ready to go.  Remember we’re on the second floor, room 262.

Media Library Hours

Operating hours for the Media Library, LRC University Computer Lab, and GMDC beginning Friday, December 16 are:

Fri., Dec. 16: closed to patrons, staff available via email/phone

Saturday – Sunday, December 17 – 18; CLOSED

Mon – Fri. Dec. 19 – 23: closed to patrons;  staff available via email/phone

Saturday – Monday, December 24 – January 2; CLOSED

Tuesday – Friday, January 3 – 6; open 8:00 am – 4:30 pm

Saturday – Sunday, January 7 – 8: CLOSED

Monday – Wednesday, January 9 – 11: open 8:00 am – 4:30 pm

Thursday, January 12: Resume Regular Hours

Sunday – Monday January 15 – 16: CLOSED

Tuesday, January 17, resume regular hours

The Media Library is Temporarily Moving to Walker Library

The Media Library, the Music Library, the LRC Univeristy Computer computer lab, and the Graduate Multimedia Development Center (GMDC), currently located in LRC 101, will move temporarily to Walker Library on Thursday, December 15, 2011.  Both Libraries, The University Computer Lab, the GMDC, and the LRC 101 B computer classroom will be open to faculty and students until 8pm on December 15. 

The LRC University Computer Lab and GMDC will provide continue to provide the discipline specific and specialized software that students and faculty are accustomed to using in LRC 101. 

Our temporary locations are:

Media Library – Walker Library Room 262
Computer Lab and GMDC – Walker Library Room 262
Music Library- Walker Library, first floor; Music Librarian and media collection at the circulation desk; scores in the Reference Collection Room.

We’ve changed our name

The Instructional Media Resources Library has changed its name. We are now just the Media Library.

Follow the IMR Media Library on Facebook and Twitter

Instructional Media Resources Media Library is now on Facebook and Twitter.  We hope you’ll follow us there to receive current updates about what’s happening, new resources, meet the staff and more.

Find us on Facebook at http://url2it.com/bdqr or search for MTSU Media Library and become a Fan

Follow us on Twitter by searching for MTSU_MediaLib

Streaming Video Available for Dance, History, Theatre, and Counseling/Therapy Subject Areas

Several electronic resources from Alexander Street Press are now available online for MTSU faculty, staff and students.  A Pipeline account is required to access the videos off campus. All are accessible from Voyager.  http://voyager.mtsu.edu

A  suite of tools—searches and browses powered by Semantic Indexing™ and searchable transcripts synchronized to video—give the ability to drill down in seconds to find the footage of interest from hundreds of hours of video.

1.  Counseling and Therapy in Video provides the largest and richest online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling—400 hours and more than 330 videos on completion. The collection’s wealth of video and multiplicity of perspectives allow students and scholars to see, experience, and study counseling in ways never before possible.

The videos in this collection, come from catalogs of Microtraining Associates, Psychotherapy.net, and the University of Manchester Department of Psychiatry.

2. Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world’s leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video – more than 500 hours in all.

Multiple productions of Shakespeare’s plays will allow for comparative analysis, showing various interpretations of the text and technical and cultural differences among the presentations.  The stage work of legendary directors and actors are together for the first time, cross-searchable and available for side-by-side comparison.  Interviews with directors, designers, writers and actors, along with excerpts of live performances.

Users can create personal playlists of clips, and also share those clips with other users on the site.  There are also editorially selected themed playlists for users to browse.

3.  Dance in Video contains over 150 dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance.

4.  American History in Video provides a collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.

Listen to Your Summer Reading- Check out an Audiobook!

Why not do some “summer listening” with an audiobook.  Check out a few from our Media Library collection and “read” hands free!

How about John Grisham, Greg Iles, James Patterson, Cathern Coulter, or Janet Evinovich?

We’ve got some of the latest New York Times bestsellers including:  the Twilight series: Twilight, New Moon Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn; The Associate, Plum Spooky, Knockout, The 8th Confession, The Time Traveler’s Wife, The Devil’s Punchbowl, Olive Kitteridge.

In the mood for a little more serious reading, maybe a little “self-help” this summer?  Check out:  The End of Overeating; A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose; Way of the Peaceful Warrior; Soul to Soul: Communications from the Heart  -to name a few.

All our new titles are in Voyager.  http://voyager.mtsu.edu

List of Sites Providing Online Viewing of Films/Television Shows

The Laurence McKinley Gould Library at Carleton College has compiled  a resource that includes links to sites that provide online viewing of television and films. Most are free or ad-supported. You may already have heard about Hulu, Joost and of course, You Tube, but there are others such as American Memory: Library of Congress, and PBS that also offer programs online.

Here’s the link:

http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/library/about/media/online/

Check it out and enjoy!

The Voyage of Charles Darwin- links to video online

Our vhs series in the Media Library has one tape that is damaged. We are looking in to purchasing this series on dvd or converting it to dvd. In the mean time, if you would like to link to Veoh.com, there are 7 episodes available.  It is necessary to download the Veoh player to watch the full episodes. System Requirements are listed when you click on the player link.

Here is the URL for the main page with all the episodes.

http://www.veoh.com/search/videos/q/the+voyage+of+charles+darwin#/search/videos/q/the+voyage+of+charles+darwin

Zeroing in on that favorite clip.. help is on the way!

Two search tools have been developed by VideoSurf and Digitalsmiths which allow locate favorite scenes from video clips or particular clips they may be interested in.

From the New York Times December 7, 2008

“Such search tools that pinpoint and index an increasingly finer level of detail within videos may prove appealing, not only to consumers searching for that special laugh on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart”, but also  to companies compiling guides to Web video watching.  And the technology may eventually come in handy in searching family video archives for hard-to-find- sightings of Great-Uncle George.”

Digitalsmiths is slightly different in that it isn’t a site for consumers to watch videos. Rather it works with companies and studios behind the scenes  of web sites at companies helping them make their videos more accessible.

Check them out!

http://www.videosurf.com/

http://digitalsmiths.com