Streaming Media & DVD Collection: Home

Including over 40,000 films, a subject-matter taxonomy of more than 700 distinct areas of study within more than 25 core subject areas designed to mirror the academic curriculum. The high-interest content is organized into student-friendly, curated categories—including Biographies, Events in History, Great Artists, Staff Picks, Landmark Series, and more—that make videos easy to find and view.

An award-winning black studies portfolio that brings together seminal documentaries, powerful interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the black experience. The collection contains 500 hours of film covering African American history, politics, art and culture, family structure, gender relationships, and social and economic issues. The collection includes documentaries on leading artists, writers, musicians, playwrights, and performers.

Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world‘s leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors.

A collection of documentary and feature films that is added to on a monthly basis. The library uses the Patron Driving Acquisition (PDA) program to provide access to Kanopy. All films are made accessible through the library catalog. Films that are viewed 4 separate times for 30 seconds or more over a 12 month period are triggered for purchase, at a cost of $150 per film for 1 year of access. Films that are watched less than 4 times may be freely accessed. Earlham has set a budget for this product; once this money is spent access will be shut down for any films that have not been purchased.

How to find out if a title includes PPR: https://help.kanopy.com/en-us/4141.htm

The database features full text for more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers; more than 150 leading history periodicals; nearly 57,000 historical documents; more than 77,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 37,000 historical photos and maps; and more than 80 hours of historical video.

More than three hundred important dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company. The plays - which include some of the most significant dramatic literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries - are performed by leading actors from around the world and recorded specifically for online listening.

Just download the free Libby app by OverDrive from your favorite app store, add OMIA (Overdrive for Michigan & Indiana Academics) as one of your loaning libraries, and start borrowing. Many ebooks are Kindle compatible (U.S. only). It's free and easy to get started. Learn more at Libby's Help Page. 
Already have the Libby app through your public library? Just search for and add OMIA under "Add Library".

Over 100,000 CDs, equivalent to over 1.5 million tracks, available for streaming, Each month over 800 new CDs are added. Includes music notes, cover artwork, tracklist, instrumentation and publisher information. Advanced search enables search by 10 different categories, including playing time, year of composition, label, instrument and category. Limited to five simultaneous users -- log out when finished.