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  • Entrepreneurial Studies Source™ offers users full text for more than 125 key periodicals, 135 reference books, numerous case studies, thousands of company profiles and over 600 videos with transcripts and related articles from the Harvard Faculty Seminar Series and Vator.TV, one of the world's largest social network sites for high-tech entrepreneurs.

  • Filmakers Library Online provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—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. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide.

  • Literary Reference Center™ Plus is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.

  • Authoritative medical information for professionals and consumers.

  • Streaming videos on American History, Arts, Biography, Business & Investing, Cultural Studies, Current Issues, Education, Health, North Carolina, Science, World History.

  • You can now view nearly 250 quality PBS programs covering a wide variety of topics. These videos are viewable from any computer running Flash Player version 9 or higher with a relatively good Internet connection (at least 175 Kbps). Unfortunately, it will not be possible to view the videos over a dial-up Internet line.

  • This resource offers a wide variety of information on small business and entrepreneurial subject areas, common business types, a help and advice section, and provides information on how to create business plans that lead to successful funding.

Recently added Videos

NewFor updates on the library’s most recently added video titles, check out our new materials lists, which include links to the catalog record for each item. We also have printable(pdf) lists and subject based RSS feeds of new titles that are updated each month.

What Next?

  • Make sure the Status of the item is "Available." If the status is something other than available, learn what that status means and what actions you can take.
  • Write down (or text yourself) the Location and the Call # for your item. You might think of the "Location" as the "Neighborhood" the item resides in and the "Call Number" as the "Address" of the item.
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  • View our Library Floor Maps for a general idea of library locations and call # arrangement.
  • To learn more about call #s, visit this guide.

More about Finding Videos in the Library

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Videos (VHS, DVDs and Streaming Media) are searchable in the Library Catalog. For best results, use the Advanced Search and limit your searches to a material type "VIDEORECORDING" and location "UNCW Audiovisuals."

Locations

There are 6 locations ("neighborhoods") for videos and all are located on the first floor within close proximity of each other.

For Recreational and Foreign locations, use the Call # to find the Section

If your Location is Recreational AND your call # starts with... it's in this section:
PN1995.75 Silent films
PN1992.8 Television
PN1995.9.A3 Action/Adventure
PN1995.9.C44 Children's
PN1995.9.C55 Comedy
PN1995.9.D4 Detective/Mystery/Crime
PN1995.9.D7 Drama
PN1995.9.H6 Horror
PN1995.9.M86 Musical
PN1995.9.R43 Reality (Television programs only)
PN1995.9.S26 Science Fiction/Fantasy
PN1995.9.W3 War (Recreational)
PN1995.9.W4 Western (Recreational)
PN1995.75 Silent films
PN1997 Foreign feature film

OR

If your Location is Foreign AND your call # starts with... it's in this section:
PN1997 .A5 Albanian
PN1997. A6 Amharic
PN1997 .A7 Amharic
PN1997 .A8 Armenian
PN1997 .B3 Bambara
PN1997 .B4 Bengali
PN1997 .B6 Bosnian
PN1997 .C5 Chinese
PN1997 .C7 Criolo
PN1997 .C9 Czech
PN1997 .D3 Danish
PN1997 .D8 Dutch
PN1997 .F5 Finnish
PN1997 .F7 French
PN1997 .G3 Georgian
PN1997 .G4 German
PN1997 .G8 Greek
PN1997 .H4 Hebrew
PN1997 .H5 Hindi
PN1997 .H9 Hungarian
PN1997 .I5 Inuktitut
PN1997 .I7 Italian
PN1997 .J3 Japanese
PN1997 .J8 Jula
PN1997 .K6 Korean
PN1997 .K8 Kurdish
PN1997 .L3 Lapp (Sami)
PN1997 .M6 Mongolian
PN1997 .M7 Mossi
PN1997 .N7 Norwegian
PN1997 .O5 Ojibwa (Chippewa)
PN1997 .P3 Pashtu
PN1997 .P4 Persian (Farsi)
PN1997 .P5 Polish
PN1997 .P6 Portuguese
PN1997 .R6 Romanian
PN1997 .R8 Russian
PN1997 .S4 Serbo-Croatian
PN1997 .S6 Spanish
PN1997 .39 Swedish
PN1997 .T3 Tagalog
PN1997 .T4 Tamil
PN1997 .T5 Thai
PN1997 .T8 Turkish
PN1997 .U4 Ukrainian
PN1997 .V5 Vietnamese
PN1997 .W6 Wolof
PN1997 .Y5 Yiddish
PN1997 .Y8 Yugoslav
PN1997 .Z8 Zulu (Tsotsitaal)