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Film and Media Collections

DVDs,VHS, links to streaming video resources Need help? Call the library at 516-463-5986

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Who we are - a chronicle of racism in America

  

Interweaving lecture, personal anecdotes, interviews, and shocking revelations, in WHO WE ARE — A Chronicle of Racism in America (Sony Pictures Classics, 2021) , criminal defense/civil rights lawyer Jeffery Robinson draws a stark timeline of anti-Black racism in the United States, from slavery to the modern myth of a post-racial America. 

 

Hofstra University Library holds approximately 10,000 DVDs or VHS tapes, and provides access to approximately 100,000 streaming video titles.

The Media Library service desk is located on the ground floor of Axinn Library.

Hofstra University faculty may request items be added to the collection using this form 

Use the library's Discovery catalog to find videos.

 

In-house facilities for the utilization of materials include a screening room and carrels for individual use of all formats represented in the collection.

                                                      

 

Contact and Circulation Information

Reserve videos, Schedule screening room, Request delivery, Request purchase of DVDs: 

Mark Thompsen, Senior Library Assistant  (516) 463-5986  Mark.Thompsen@Hofstra.edu

 

Licensing, Streaming content, Public Performance Rights, Copyright questions, other concerns:

Sarah McCleskey, Head of Resource and Collection Services (516) 463-5076 or Sarah.E.McCleskey@Hofstra.edu

 

Circulation:  Hofstra faculty may check out materials for one week. Hofstra students and other affiliated users may use materials in the Film and Media Library.

 

Request equipment distribution to classrooms:

Academic Media  (516) 463-5989

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