Streaming Video

This is a copy of Sonya' post on email.  Please ask if you are unclear about this. The bottom line is that students can directly access three of the four streaming film sources.  For SWANK, they need to go to their courses in iCollege to have access.

Sonya's text:

We had a number of questions lately through e-mail and chat about watching streaming films, so I want to make sure that we are on the same page answering them.

GPC Libraries currently offer four streaming video options: Films on Demand, American History in Video, Digital Theatre Plus and SWANK.

FOD, American History in Video, Digital Theatre are unlimited simultaneous use by all faculty and students, records for films are in out catalog. Films can be accessed through OPAC and through collections’ native interfaces.

SWANK – we currently have 25 full features films available for streaming (see list below). They are also unlimited simultaneous use, but due to the licensing requirements, links to these films should be requested by faculty and placed in iCollege before students can watch them.

So, when asked about watching streaming films:

-          Ask about the title of the film first to determine what collection can be used to access it.

-          If it is a feature film, check our SWANK list to see if it is available (http://guides.gpc.edu/SWANK)

-          If it is available through SWANK, ask what class/ instructor it is for and advise a student that their instructor has to request a link and make a film available through iCollege class.

-          You are welcome to contact the instructor with relevant information about SWANK or ask me to do it.

More information about SWANK – http://guides.gpc.edu/SWANK

More information about streaming video in GPC Libraries collection - http://guides.gpc.edu/gpcvideo

Please let me now if you have any questions.

List of SAWNK titles that are currently available:

Anchorman (2004, Adam McKay)

Bamboozled (2000, Spike Lee) 

Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein) 

Bicycle Thief (1948, Vittorio de Sica)

Bonnie and Clyde (1967, Arthur Penn)

Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)

Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)

Crash (2004, Paul Haggis)

Dark Girls (2011, D. Channsin Berry, Bill Duke)

Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee)

Gattaca (1997, Andrew Niccol)

Inception (2010, Christopher Nolan)

Monster's Ball (2001, Marc Forster)

New World (2005, Terrence Malick)

On the Waterfront (1954, Elia Kazan)

Paper clips (2004, Elliot Berlin, Joe Fab)

Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)

Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino)

Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)

Shawshank Redemption (1994, Frank Darabont)

Singin' in the Rain (1952, Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly)

Social Network (2010, David Fincher)

Tombstone (1993, George P. Cosmatos)

Waiting for "Superman" (2010, Davis Guggenheim)

West Side Story (1961, Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins)