Media Resources  Tags: media  

Over 90 of the videos in the Lesley Library collections are now available to view online!  Access to hundreds of other videos online is also available through the Library's subscriptions to video databases. The boxes on this page will tell you how to access them. Steps to access the videos will vary, depending on the source.

You can now also download an alphabetical list of Lesley Library videos that can be found online and information on how to access them. Find this document in the box to the right.

You'll find our videos available through licensed sources such as Films Media Group and the Alexander Street Press Theatre in Video and Counseling and Therapy in Video databases (these are myLesley access only), as well as sources free to the public such as PBS, Annenberg Media, SnagFilms and the National Film Board of Canada. Happy viewing!

Approximately 13 of the library's counseling videos are now available online (as well as about 200 or so others!) through the new Counseling and Therapy in Video Database. Examples include: The Unmotivated Patient, Making Divorce Work, and The Gift of Therapy and Understanding Group Psychotherapy with Dr. Irvin Yalom.

Check it out here:

Alexander Street Press Counseling and Therapy in Video database

Over 200 videos of drama performances and related documentaries are now available to the Lesley community to watch online through a subscription to the Alexander Street Press Theatre in Video Database!

Titles from the Lesley video collection include Agamemnon and BBC versions of Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Merchant of Venice and more. Many, many more drama videos are also available through this database.

Take a look: 

Alexander Street Press Theatre in Video Database

Many of the Ludcke Library's videos from the PBS Frontline and NOVA series (as well as many other programs from these series) are available to watch online.

Frontline videos can be found here:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/

NOVA videos can be found here:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/programs/

Direct links to specific titles in our collection appear below:

Click the link below for an alphabetical list of Lesley videos that can be viewed online.

The Library has licensed some of it's videos from Films Media Group (FMG) to make them available online to the Lesley community. Access is via myLesley only.

To access the videos:

1. Sign into myLesley

2. Click the My Library Tab

3. Find the Media Services box and click on "Online Videos"

4. Click on any title on the list to view it online. (Links to the Theatre in Video database, selected PBS titles and Annenberg Media titles are also on the Online Video page.)

The following link will get you to the My Library Tab in myLesley (if you are already signed in). You can find the Media Services box and choose the "Online Videos" link from there.

Library myLesley Tab

Most of the licensed titles are education or arts focused and include:

Bauhaus: The Face of the 20th Century

Bill T. Jones: Still/Here

A Child's Guide to Languages

Facing the Truth

Fooling with Words

GLOBAL ROLL CALL: THE NEED FOR EDUCATION WORLDWIDE (2 part series)

Language Development

MAKING SCHOOLS WORK (The Library has two parts from this series)

Postmodernism - NEW

ONLY A TEACHER (3-part series)

RESEARCH METHODS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (4-part series)

SCHOOL: THE STORY OF AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION (4-part series)

The Songs are Free

Special Learners in the Regular Classroom: Sean's Story

Threads of Hope

The following animated videos in the Ludcke and AIB collections can be found at the National Film Board of Canada's "Focus on Animation" site:

Bully Dance

The Big Snit (AIB)

The Cat Came Back (AIB)

Dinner for Two

Neighbors

Notes on a Triangle

Check the site here for these and 70 or so other animated films. Some offer closed captioning.

The following animated films at AIB can also be found at the National Film Board of Canada main stie:

My Grandmother Ironed the Kings Shirts

Strange Invaders

When the Day Breaks

Check this site for these and many other films from the National Film Board of Canada now online!

The Library has many Annenberg Media titles in it's collection. Most of these demonstrate excellent teaching or feature courses in literature, art, science and more.

All Annenberg titles are available to watch online free at the Annenberg Media website: http://www.learner.org.

Sample Annenberg titles in the Library's collection (and online) include:

The Arts in Every Classroom

Connecting with the Arts

Discovering Psychology

Engaging with Literature

The Learning Classroom

Learning Science through Inquiry

Minds of Our Own

Mathematics Illuminated

A Private Universe

Teaching Reading 3-5

A World of Art: Works in Progress

...and many, many more!

The following documentaries from the library collection are available to watch free online at the beta site for SnagFilms. The catch is that they do include commercial breaks. You can watch for free though, as well as share the videos on various websites. The Library videos available are listed below, but there are many other documentaries you may want to check out on this site!

Paper Clips

Refrigerator Mothers

T-Shirt Travels