If you are looking for audio recordings or videos of plays, you can search the Library Catalog by the play title, by author, or by main actor.
Most media content (videos, cassettes, DVDs, and CDs) at Alkek can be found on the 3rd floor.
There are vcrs, dvd players, and other formats available upstairs for playback.
The library has items from the Criterion Collection. Click here for a listing of all Criterion Collection content in Alkek, or type in "criterion collection" as a keyword search.
There are 317 films from the Critierion Collection available in streaming video from Kanopy.
Kanopy is like an academic version of Netflix...with plenty (about 10k in all) of independent movies, documentaries, and 319 Criterion Collection films. You can watch it on your Roku, iOS, or Android device.
Drama Online is a comprehensive database with hundreds of full-text plays combined with critical analysis, contextual information, biographies, and genres. Search for plays by theme, setting, time period or genre. Also includes a Monologue finder and ability to search by number of roles for men and women or unisex. Subscription includes Includes Nick Hern Book collection; and video collections Globe on Screen, Stage on Screen, Maxine Peake as Hamlet, and Patsy Rodenburg acting masterclass.
There are plenty more! Visit the Streaming Databases for the complete list.
Comprehensive multidisciplinary academic streaming video collection. Includes newsreels, award-winning documentaries, field recordings, interviews, lectures, training videos, and exclusive primary footage.
LibGuide: http://proquest.libguides.com/AVON/home
Streaming video collection of the complete dramatic works of William Shakespeare broadcast by the BBC in the 1980s.
Permanent links to videos are displayed under the viewing window. Technical requirements for viewing can be found in the FAQs at http://www.ambrosedigital.com/component/option,com_easyfaq/Itemid,68/ .
Educational, close-captioned videos on all subject areas. Includes archival film and newsreels, documentaries and films from producers such as A&E, BBC learning, and PBS.An external tool is available in Canvas to embed Films on Demand videos.
Current mobile devices supported.
Streaming videos from BBC, PBS, Documentary Educational Resources, Criterion Collection and others. The platform allows you to make playlists and clips, and share links.
Recordings by New World Records and other independent labels. Includes a wide range of genres. 1975 to present. NOTE: Safari is not a supported browser.
Classical works to contemporary plays combined with critical analysis, contextual information, biographies, genres and Nick Hern books.
Classical music from Medieval to contemporary. Access over 98,000 CDs from the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues plus the complete catalogues or selected titles from over 375 classical, jazz and world music labels.
Contains audio speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds, including native and non-native speakers of English.
Graphically rich primary sources depicting popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries.