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Former Vice President Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth is now available for in-library viewing at the 2nd floor Circulation Desk of the NYIT Manhattan Library (Call Number: QC981.8 .G56 I53 2006b).  All of the library's +50 computers are equipped with DVD drives.

What the critics have to say:

"In 39 years, I have never written these words in a movie review, but here they are: You owe it to yourself to see this film. If you do not, and you have grandchildren, you should explain to them why you decided not to."
                                      - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

"One of the Most Important Films of Our Time"
                                      - Jeffrey Lyons, NBC's Reel Talk

Watch the trailer:
 

# - Sebastien Marion - Video - 2/6/07; 11:55:43 AM -

The NYIT Manhattan Library has the following DVDs available for a lending period of three days.

# - Sebastien Marion - Video - 8/16/06; 4:14:21 PM -

Move over YouTube and Google Video, joining the foray of new media companies vying at a stake in the web video market, Yahoo! has introduced Yahoo Video!

 

A by-product of the convergence of new media, slowly more and more educational information is being made available through the medium of the Internet.  A number of librarian selected highlights are included below.

 

Databases:

 

Internet Archive
The Moving Image Archive includes over 34,527 items, from 1930's Popeye cartoons to the 2004 presidential debates.

 

National Archives

The National Archives includes over 103 historic documentaries and newsreels.

 

Selections:

 

The John Glenn Story 1963

This is a film biography of John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit the earth.  Video length is 29:51.

 

A Conversation with Jack Welch
Not familiar with management guru and former General Electric CEO Jack Welch?  Video length is 56:39.

 

Google Tech Talks
Tech Talks inlcudes over 100 videos from Google's brain trust designed to disseminate a wide spectrum of views on topics ranging from current affairs, science, engineering humanities business law, entertainment, medicine and the arts.

Sergei Brin
Google founder Sergei Brin's view on search, Google and his life.

# - Sebastien Marion - Video - 6/8/06; 10:51:25 AM -

In his latest bestseller, The World is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman describes the unplanned cascade of technological and social shifts that is currently causing the flattening of the world.  As evidence, the graphic below displays recent NYIT Library Blog visitors.  These include people from as far away as Shanghai and Milan, to as close as Memphis, Tennessee and Salt Lake City, Utah.

You can view a video clip from a live presentation that Thomas L. Friedman gave on The World Is Flat at an MIT OpenCourseWare on May 16, 2005.  You may also check out the book from the NYIT Wisser Library. Call Number: HM846 .F74.

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The NYIT Manhattan Library now offers all of its DVDs as 3 day loan items.  Titles include: Warhol: The Complete Picture, The Life of Leonardo, Picasso: The Man and His Work, Ansel Adams: A Film by Ric Burns, and 5 Films about Christo and Jeanne-Claude.  Stop by and rent a video today!

 

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