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Business Source Complete now includes a business video collection with 55 videos from the Harvard Business School Faculty Seminar Series.  The series features video lectures from renowned professors and experts at the Business School.  All lectures are captured from executive education programs, and offer groundbreaking ideas, insightful research, and practical advice on management issues.  [...]

Media College
http://www.mediacollege.com/
A multimedia production company in New Zealand has website that offers free tutorials, references, resources, and forums on electronic media production. There are lessons on “Video”, “Audio”, “Photography”, “Graphics”, “Computer”, “Internet”, a “Glossary”, and “Equipment” that offer operating manuals from 18 different brands of equipment. There are a number of free downloads, including a [...]

MathVids
http://www.mathvids.com/
With a focus on a wide range of students and learning abilities, MathVids provides access to hundreds of instructional videos that relate basic, intermediate, and advanced mathematical concepts. The site contains a number of sample videos, though visitors will need to complete a free registration form to view all of the materials on the site. [...]

MIT’s Media Lab is working on a unique approach to constructing a story based on a collection of tagged digital video and audio sequences.  Learn more by watching this MIT Media Lab Video.

The YouTube channel of the Library of Congress went public this month.  They have started with 70 videos with plans to keep going.  Read more on the LOC’s blog post, YouTube and Now We Do Too.

View videos and channels from colleges and universities on YouTube EDU.

The National Marine Sanctuaries Media Library contains video clips and high-resolution still images which can be searched and downloaded for public use.

Lifehacker gives five top picks for tools to use in organizing your personal video library (DVD’s and video downloads).  And since the subject of this blog post is videos, I would like to take a moment to remind you that the library has its own collection (which I enjoy using myself).  Do you know that [...]

For a closer look at the happenings on Capitol Hill check out YouTube’s new channels, The Senate Hub and The House Hub.  Content will include video postings from Senators and Representatives, behind-the-scenes footage, clips of floor speeches and committee hearings.

View Booklist’s Editors’ Choice which lists the best books, databases, video/DVDs, and audiobooks of the last year in eight categories.  Booklist also selects their Top of the List: the single best titles in each of these categories.