Video Resources

Locating Videos in Emerson Library

Emerson Library owns a large collection of videocassettes, DVDs, and laserdiscs which is shelved on the first floor of Emerson Library.

Use Video Search Express to search the Library Catalog for videos, DVDs, laserdiscs, and films in the Eden-Webster Library System. Learn about more advanced search options by viewing our brief tutorial, Finding videos and other media materials in the Library Catalog.

Check the New Titles list to see media items added to the collection each month.

Viewing/Listening Facilities

Emerson Library offers listening/viewing facilities in the media area on the first floor of the library. There are 3 group listening/viewing rooms that accomodate 3 to 4 people and several individual listening/viewing carrels.

Guidelines for use of viewing/listening facilities:

• Items from the library's collection as well as those on reserve or produced for courses may be viewed in these rooms.
• Room 124 and the AV carrels are available for use on a first come/first served basis. Current Eden and Webster students, faculty, and staff may reserve the use of Rooms 125 and 127 by either calling the Emerson Circulation Desk (314) 968-6952 or using our online Group Study Reservations Form
• Students needing to view /listen to items on Course Reserve have priority over use for recreational purposes.
• Eden and Webster students, faculty, and staff have priority over library visitors.
• Public users, after presenting a valid photo ID card to Emerson Library staff at the circulation desk on the first floor of Emerson Library, may enjoy the privilege of using the listening/viewing rooms only to view items from the library's collections.

Video Loan Policy

Current Webster and Eden students, faculty, and staff may borrow up to four videos, four DVDs, and four laserdiscs for 3 days at a time.

We encourage all current Webster faculty teaching in the U.S. to place reservations for the DVDs and videotapes they wish to use in class. More detailed information about this service is available on the DVD and Videotape Reservations page.

Videos, DVDs, laserdiscs and films are not available for interlibrary loan or for loan to individuals other than Webster and Eden students, faculty, and staff.

For more information on borrowing videos, check with the Audiovisual Services at the Eden-Webster Library System page.

Video Producers & Distributors

The following list links to individual sites of a number of video producers and distributors and may help to locate videos currently available for purchase.

The Video Distributor Database(http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Distributors.html) maintained by the University of California, Berkley offers browsing by video category or distributor name searching.

Annenberg/CPB Projects: Learner Online

http://www.learner.org/

Educational videos for the classroom from Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Annenberg School of Communications.

California Newsreel

http://www.newsreel.org/

Non-profit documentary video production and distribution company with videos on African American history and life, race and diversity, films from Africa, videos on the workplace and labor, campus life in the 90's and media and society.

Center for Media and Independent Learning

http://www-cmil.unex.berkeley.edu/media/

From the U. of California extension service. Especially strong in the social sciences.

CRM Films

http://www.crmfilms.com/

Source for workplace training videos. American Management Association's group training videos are available from this site.

EcuFilm

http://www.ecufilm.org/

An ecumenical video distribution service for the church community.

Facets Multi-Media Homepage

http://www.facets.org/

One of the largest distributors of art, classic, cult, foreign and hard-to-find videos with over 27,000 titles. Good collection of international films, documentaries, experimental and concert films, Hollywood classics, landmark silent films, American independent films, serials, animation, cult and the best of children's films.

Filmakers Library

http://www.filmakers.com/index.html

Collection focuses on documentary films and videos primarily for educational use.

Filmic Archives

http://www.filmicarchives.com/

Provides educational videos and other media for grades K-12.

Films for the Humanities & Sciences

http://www.films.com

Insight Media

http://www.insight-media.com/IMHome.htm

Media Education Foundation

http://www.mediaed.org/

Media for the Arts

http://www.art-history.com

REEL

http://www.reel.com/reel.asp?NODE=@home

Roland Collection of Films & Videos on Art

http://www.roland-collection.com/

ShopPBS

http://shop.pbs.org/

Catalog of videos of PBS broadcasts on a variety of subjects.

Wellspring Media

http://www.videocollection.com/