PBS Videos from NCLive
Edward Hirst

With the dawn of the New Year, NCLive, North Carolina Libraries for Virtual Education, has entered a new era by providing the citizens of North Carolina access to over 200 hours of documentary and educational video programming from the Public Broadcasting Corporation in cooperation with UNC-TV and the NC Department of Cultural Resources.

The NCLive Video Collection was chosen by librarians for the support of education and the general interest of the public. The collection includes programming covering the sciences, US and world history, biographies, current events, the arts, as well as a variety of other subjects. Titles available in the collection include Ken Burn’s Baseball, Jazz, and The Civil War as well as other episodes from series such as Frontline, American Experience and Scientific American Frontiers.

The videos can be accessed from any computer with a high-speed Internet connection and the only software needed to view the content is the free Flash Media player software available from Adobe.com. If you are viewing the videos anywhere besides within the library you will need to login with the NCLive password which can be requested from any of the library’s locations. Library patrons can also retrieve the current NCLive password by clicking on the NCLive password link located on the library’s homepage.
The videos do not require downloading to be played and you are not required to check them out to view them. NCLive is able to offer unlimited simultaneous streaming to libraries throughout the state.
Visitors to the NCLive Video Collection page can view a listing of all of the titles that are available for viewing or they may view a subject listing of the holdings. Currently the featured video is Citizen King, which aired on the American Experience series.

Clicking on any title link leads to a brief synopsis of the program, the playing time, a choice of speeds to stream the video, and whether the video is close captioned.

Be sure and check out the new Video Collection from NCLive.