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Faculty

Faculty privileges include previewing films for up to 4 days.

To ensure the film is available for a class showing reserve the film.

Faculty can book the group viewing room in the Music & Media Library to show a film.

Faculty can arrange for a student assistant or staff person to check out films for them. Call the Music & Media Library at 404-727-1777, request to speak with the supervisor on duty, and ask for a proxy form for media items.

Faculty can request additional titles to be purchased for the collection. Contact your subject librarian.

Check out the super Music & Media FAQs as well that can answer many of your questions regarding lending, use, requesting, etc.

All films are for educational use only.

Students

Students can view films in the Music & Media Library.

Student privileges vary; some DVD's can be checked-out for 2-days whereas other films must remain in the library.

DVD's for 2-day checkout list.

Check out the super Music & Media FAQs as well that can answer many of your questions regarding lending, use, requesting, etc.

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Searching for Political Science Films

It is a bit tricky to locate political science visual materials in EUCLID for political science, as these materials are housed separately in the MUSIC & MEDIA library from the general collection in the STACKS and are not given traditional call numbers. A few broad searches for films are located below. You may just click on these and receive a list of titles/records from EUCLID. The list is certainly not comprehensive.

The MUSIC & MEDIA library has also created a general guide for locating films that you should definitely check out.

Topics	Producers/Distributors
Politics and Government (General)	Frontline
U.S. government and politics	PBS
Legal Subjects	Bill Moyers
Communism, Fascism, Nazism	Nightline
Presidents
Religion
Poverty, Welfare
Elections

A basic strategy for locating films on a specific topic or geographic area is to do the following.

From EUCLID, choose "complex search"
Type in your search term in one of the search boxes towards the top of the page.
Under "library" choose "general" (or choose "MUSIC AND MEDIA" under location).
You could also choose "DVD" or "VHS" under the format dropdown menu, but you can not search them together.

Several other options are:

For films in any format (VHS, DVD, etc.), use Format: VISUAL MATERIALS.
To restrict your search to specific video formats, use Item Type: DVD, DVD-LEND, VIDEOCASS, FILM).
To find only items in Heilbrun, Woodruff, and Chemistry Libraries, use Library: GENERAL.
To find videos containing a specific language, use the Language limit . (Note that you may retrieve some DVDs that have an optional, added sound track in your specified language, which is not part of the original film.)

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Film Vendors of Interest

There are a number of vendors and distributors of films for political science, and the social sciences, more broadly. However, some titles may only be available via the director or producer.

Films for the Social Sciences and Humanities

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