Where are the DVD/VHS videos located?

DVD/VHS videos are available from the Media Services Desk at the Webster Library and at the Circulation Desk at the Vanier Library.

To find DVD/VHS videos in the CLUES catalogue, enter keywords in the search box.
Example: "water supply"

 

**Note: if you get too many hits in CLUES, click on first to adjust your keywords, otherwise the video format will be lost.

Searching by director, producer, actor or production company

Step 1: Search by Author in CLUES.

• Producers, directors, writers and main performers may be searched as authors in CLUES, for example:
  
  • Hitchcock, Alfred
  • Spielberg, Steven
  • Hepburn, Katharine
• Production companies may also be searched as authors in CLUES, for example:
  
  • National Film Board of Canada
  • Vidéographe
  • Paramount Pictures

Step 2: From the results page, click on and select the appropriate material type (example: Video (DVD), Video (VHS/Beta), etc.). You may select multiple material types by holding down the CTRL button.

Searching by title or series

Step 1: Search by Title in CLUES.

• Search by title if the exact title is known, for example:
  
  • An inconvenient truth
  • Maltese falcon
  • Manufacturing consent
• A series title can also be searched as a title, for example:
  
  • Portrait of an artist
  • Films for Humanities

Step 2: From the results page, click on and select the appropriate material type (example: Video (DVD), Video (VHS/Beta), etc.). You may select multiple material types by holding down the CTRL button.

Searching by genre, technique or form

Step 1: Search by Subject in CLUES.

• Search by subject heading to find works by genre, technique or form, for example:
  
  • Adventure films
  • Animated films
  • Children's films
  • Comedy films
  • Experimental films
  • Feature films
  • Horror films
  • Musicals
  • Silent films
• Closed-captioned materials is listed under the subject heading "Video recordings for the hearing impaired."

Step 2: From the results page, click on and select the appropriate material type (example: Video (DVD), Video (VHS/Beta), etc.). You may select multiple material types by holding down the CTRL button.

Searching by topic

A. When the producer, director or title is not known, search by keyword to find relevant material.

Step 1: Do an Advanced Keyword Search in CLUES.

• Examples
  
  • canada and history
  • women and biography
  • ("world war" or "vietnam war") and not "feature films"

Step 2: Click on and select the appropriate material type (example: Video (DVD), Video (VHS/Beta), etc.). You may select multiple material types by holding down the CTRL button.

B. If you have identified an appropriate Library of Congress subject heading, use it to find relevant films and documentaries.

Step 1: Search by Subject in CLUES.

• Examples
  
  • Indians of North America
  • Civil rights
  • Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

Step 2: From the results page, click on and select the appropriate material type (example: Video (DVD), Video (VHS/Beta), etc.). You may select multiple material types by holding down the CTRL button.

To view a complete list of videos and DVDs

• Do an Advanced Keyword Search in CLUES
• Enter "*" (one asterisk) in the search box
• Click on and select the appropriate material type. You may select multiple material types by holding down the CTRL button)

Visual Media Resources (Faculty of Fine Arts)

Videos and other media items are also available from the Faculty of Fine Arts' Visual Media Resources.

Contact 514-848-2424, ext. 3446 for more information.

Finding online videos using databases

- Access to the following resources is restricted to Concordia users.

• Dance in Video (Alexander Street Press Collection)
  A collection that covers ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance.
• Encyclopedia Britannica Online
  Click on "Media Collection" and then "Videos" to see online videos on topics including animals to geography, history, science, the arts, and technology.
• Ethnographic Video Online (Alexander Street Press Collection)
  A growing collection of ethnographic films, with transcripts. Includes classic works from the pioneers of ethnographic film as well as with contemporary works by filmmakers from around the world.
• North American Indian Thought and Culture (Alexander Street Press Collection)
  The collection presents Indian and Canadian First People experiences from their own point of view, and includes some audio and video content.
• Oral History Online (Alexander Street Press Collection)
  The database provides detailed indexing of oral history collections, repositories, and narratives, along with links to full text, audio, and video where available. Click on "Search Interviews" and limit to videos.
• Theatre in Video (Alexander Street Press Collection)
  Theatre in Video is a streaming video database which contains performances of more than 250 of the world’s most important plays.
• Vanderbilt Television News Archive
  Searchable archive of abstracts of news broadcasts. Streaming video is available for NBC material, ranging from August 5, 1968 to the present and CNN broadcasts beginning in 1995. No current material will be made available until at least 72 hours after it was originally broadcast.

Finding free online videos on the Web

Here is a brief listing of some free Web sites offering access to online videos on a variety of subjects.