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Two streaming video collections available during May
Posted by: Christina Sylka | May 6, 2011 | Comments Off on Two streaming video collections available during May
UBC Library users have trial access during May to two streaming video collections from the Alexander Street Press, an electronic publisher of award-winning online collections in the humanities and social sciences.
Filmakers Online Library (http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1735/) is an award-winning, cross-disciplinary collection of over 913 global documentaries, covering race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more.
Education in Video (http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1734/) is developed specifically for training and developing teachers. The collection offers teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms.
The collections are available for trial from May 6 – May 31, 2011.
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New Books- The tyranny of merit : what's become of the common good? / Michael J. Sandel.
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- How to work from home and actually get sh*t done : 50 tips for leaders and professionals to work remotely and outperform the office / Cynthia D. Spraggs.
- Subprime attention crisis : advertising and the time bomb at the heart of the Internet / Tim Hwang.
- Effortless : make it easier to do what matters most / Greg McKeown.
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