Video

The library has databases for media - images,video and audio. The Finding Media Guide below will show you how to find and search the library for audio and video resources.

Finding Media

Here is a sample of the thousands of videos available from the AVON database (click the link to view the video in the AVON database).

Kanopy Videos

Edgar Allan Poe: Literature Of Melancholy (Run Time: 30 min)
Through dramatizations and discussions of his work, this program examines Poe's personality and his view of the intellectual as a superior but isolated being. It also investigates the invention of the detective story, his understanding of horror, violence and paranoia, and his use of poetry to exalt melancholy and romantic love.
Forms Of Literature: Poetry (Run Time: 44 min)
Students are introduced to the basic poetic techniques and the endless variety of poetic forms and subjects poets have used over the centuries. The enormous possibilities of poetic expression are explored through works by cummings, Shakespeare, Edward Lear, Wordsworth, Millay, Donne, Corso, Dorothy Parker, Homer, Keats, Roethke, Hart Crane, Pound, Yeats, Coleridge and Pablo Neruda. Students eventually examine a Shakepearean sonnet and analyze successive drafts of poems by Dylan Thomas, Dickinson, and Williams.
Moccasins And Microphones: Modern Native American Storytelling Through Performance Poetry (Run TIme: 43 min)
This documentary journeys with the Santa Fe Indian School Spoken Word Team as they prepare and present a theater production of their finest poems woven with traditional and contemporary song and dance.
Poetry In America Season 2 (Run Time: 3hr 26min)
In the second season of Poetry in America, guests join Elisa New to discuss the poems of Marilyn Chin, Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore, Mark Doty, Yusef Komunyakaa, Stephen Sondheim, William Carlos Williams, and Walt Whitman.
The Poetry Lounge: Understanding the Power of the Spoken Word (Run Time: 1hr 35min)
The Poetry Lounge: Self-Expression Through The Spoken Word is a free, multicultural open-forum for self-expression, inspiring young people to find their own voice and let it be heard.
Summertime (Run TIme: 1hr 30min)
Over the course of a hot summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelenos intersect. A skating guitarist, a tagger, two wannabe rappers, an exasperated fast-food worker, a limo driver- they all weave in and out of eachother's stories. Through poetry they express life, love, heartache, family, home and fear. One of them just wants to find someplace that still serves good cheeseburgers.