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Featured Collections: EBSCOhost Databases

Library Featured Collections: EBSCOhost Databases

Academic institutions worldwide depend on this database as their core resource of scholarly information. Many of these EBSCOhost  collection contains Academic, Business, Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), Film and Television Literature, and Regional Business News.  The databases have full text articles from more than 2,100 journals. Start your research today!

Access EBSCO Databases

View the instructions below on how to log into any of the EBSCOhost databases and how to do a search. This resource is available to all active Students, Alumni, and Staff!

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Featured Collections: LinkedIn Learning Database

Library Featured Collections: LinkedIn Learning

Learn business, creative, and technology skills to achieve your personal and professional goals. Visit LinkedIn Learning today to get access to thousands of online videos!

Access Linkedin learning

View the instructions below on how to log into LinkedIn Learning. This resource is available to current Students and Staff only!

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July 2020 Collection Highlights

July 2020 Collection Highlights

Inclusion is a hallmark of the LAFS Library’s Core beliefs. We do our best to spotlight creators from all countries, backgrounds, and cultures. To highlight issues currently affecting our world, we have curated a list of the films that shine a light on racial injustices and inequality. 

You can watch it online (either free or paid) or read the scripts via our Koha catalog!  

The 13th

The 13th Amendment  abolished slavery in 1865, which is used as the title in DuVernay’s documentary. It follows the history from slavery through to the mass incarceration of Black people in the United States. The documentary shows why people have been calling for police reform.

Video on Netflix
Video on Youtube

Da 5 Bloods

Another Spike Lee Original: Four African American veterans return to Vietnam years after the war ends to find treasure and their Squad Leader’s remains. 

Video on Netflix
Script In Koha

Blackkklansman

Based on the Memoir from Ron Stallworth, the first African American Detective in the Colorado Spring Police Department. Spike Lee tells the tale of how Stallworth wants to do the impossible: Infiltrate and Expose the Klu Klux Klan. 

Script in Koha
Watch on Amazon Prime

The Black Godfather

A documentary film that tells the story of Clarence Avant, a music executive whose presence in music, film, TV and Politics is profound and infamous, though few outside of these circles might know his name. The Behind the scene style documentary is told by the people who worked with him. 

Watch on Netflix

Moonlight

Winner of the 2016 Academy Award for Best Picture and based on Tarell Alvin McCraney’s unpublished, Semi-autobiographical play “In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue”, Moonlight depicts a coming of age story of a black man that is guided by the support, love and kindness that his community provides. 

Video on Netflix
Script in Koha
DVD in Koha

If Beale Street Could Talk

Based on the 1974 Novel by James Baldwin,  Beale Street depicts the love story of Tish and Alonzo and how a community supports them when Alonzo is arrested for a crime he didn’t commit and the fight to prove his innocence. 

Video on Hulu
Script in Koha
Book in Koha

Wu-Tang: An American Saga

A Episodic series looking into the creation of the Wu-Tang Clan from their formative years and how they became a world wide phenomenon and a house hold name. 

Video on Hulu

Do The Right Thing

Do the Right Thing is about one tragic day in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn. A story about Race and Police Brutality. Dramatic, poignant, insightful, and a little funny.

Video on Amazon Prime
Script in Koha
dvd in koha
Blu-ray in Koha

Freedom Riders

A documentary of the activists in the 1960’s who rode buses through the south to challenge the non-enforcement of desegregating buses, and who were often met with violence.  

Video on PBS
Video on Amazon Prime

Fruitvale Station

The story of Oscar Grant, who was shot by police in Oakland, California. Won multiple awards at Sundance Film Festival 

Video on Amazon Prime
Script in Koha

Get Out

An Oscar winning horror movie about a black man who goes to his girlfriends home to meet her family and finds that nothing is as it seems. An interesting and insightful look into racial issues.    

Video on Amazon Prime
DVD in Koha
Script in Koha

I'm Not Your Negro

A documentary narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, and based on James Baldwin’s unfinished work, Remember this house. I’m not your Negro takes a look at historic racism through the eyes of civil rights leaders

VIDEO ON TUBI
VIDEO ON NETFLIX
VIDEO ON HULU
DVD in Koha

Malcolm X

The story of Malcolm x’s career, incarceration, conversation, the controversies around him, and his eventual assassination. Starring Denzel Washington and directed by Spike Lee

Video on Amazon Prime

Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story

This documentary series follows the 2012 shooting of Trayvon martin by George Zimmerman, and the rise of the BLM movement.

Video on Amazon Prime

Seven Seconds

A Netflix series that tells a story of a police officer who tries to cover up the death of a young black boy and his mothers’ fight for the truth. 

Video on Netflix
Script in Koha

Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement

A documentary takes us step by step through events that led to the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. Activists, leaders, journalists, celebrities and scholars talk about their experiences and how it led to their involvement in the BLM movement.

Video on Amazon Prime
Video on Youtube

Sorry to Bother You

An alternate reality of present-day Oakland, Calif., where a Cassius Green, a telemarketer finds the key to material glory. As he begins to rise in the ranks, those that he works with and loves fight against corporate oppression, and Cassius must make a choice.

Video on Hulu
Script in Koha

* Please note you must be signed into your LAFILM Google Account in order to view the script upon clicking the “SCRIPT IN KOHA” link. 

** Please also note that some streaming platforms require you to sign into your account (may be free or paid subscription) and/or may no longer be available for viewing.

Resources

During this time of unrest and change, we wanted to provide resources for those in our community who are looking how to help the Black Lives Matter protests or those who may be in need of resources. 

How to Help the BLM Movement when you don’t know where to start. 

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How to Login to Koha Library Catalog

How to Login and Search in Koha Library Catalog

You will need a LAFS Library Account in order to login to do more such as, adding library items to your wishlist or cart, placing holds, paying late/lost fines, renewing your borrowed items online, and more! 

If you follow the instructions below but still have trouble logging in, please email lafslibrary@lafilm.edu.

Download Login Instructions
Download Account Instructions
Download CAtalog instructions

For more information and instructions about how to use our library catalog (Koha), please visit the Tutorials page. In addition, ByWater Solutions provides instructions and tutorial videos about the functionality of the library system here.

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Library’s New Catalog​ July 2020

THE LAFS LIBRARY HAS A NEW LIBRARY CATALOG - JULY 2020

Introducing the Koha Open Public Access Catalog (OPAC)

Access the New KOHA Catalog Now at librarycatalog.lafilm.edu!

All of your current account information (checkouts, holds, fines, and phone, etc.) have migrated to the new Koha system. We encourage Students to start using the new catalog starting July Term on 7.6.20.

With Koha, you will be able to:

    • Access our public catalog via any mobile device
    • Review your current checkouts, renew materials, and place holds online
    • View detailed fine information and pay fees online via PayPal
    • Save searches so you’re alerted when new materials arrive
    • Select and change notification format preferences (phone or email) as well as the frequency you receive these notifications
    • Add your own tags, comments/reviews and star ratings to titles
    • Make purchase suggestions online
    • Create, manage and share lists of your favorite books
    • And much more!

For more information and instructions about how to use our library catalog (Koha), please visit the Tutorials page. In addition, ByWater Solutions provides instructions and tutorial videos about the functionality of the library system here.

It may take some time to get used to the new Koha interface, but our Library Staff is here to help with any questions you have. Contact by email lafslibrary@lafilm.edu.  

Thank you for your patience and understanding as we migrate from one software system to the next. We think you’ll be pleased with the final product!

The LAFS Library

View the instructions

For more information and instructions about how to use our library catalog (Koha), please visit the Tutorials page. In addition, ByWater Solutions provides instructions and tutorial videos about the functionality of the library system here.

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Library’s New Catalog July 2020 (Staff)

THE LAFS LIBRARY HAS A NEW LIBRARY CATALOG FOR STUDENTS AND STAFF JULY 2020

Introducing the Koha Open Public Access Catalog (OPAC)

Access the New KOHA Catalog Now at librarycatalog.lafilm.edu!

All of your current account information (checkouts, holds, fines, and phone, etc.) will migrate to the new Koha system. The transition to our new system occurred during the Summer Break, 6.29.20 to 7.5.20. We encourage Students and Staff to use the new catalog starting July Term on 7.6.20.

Reminder: Due to COVID-19, the Library is closed; patrons will not be able to check out anything from the library until further notice. No late fines will be assessed for overdue items, and you can return materials when the library reopens. Though, many of the Library’s digital services will remain available either through our Digital Catalog or on our A-Z Databases list including research-based articles, online streaming videos, electronic screenplays, and music-related databases.  

With Koha, you will be able to:

    • Access our public catalog via any mobile device
    • Review your current checkouts, renew materials, and place holds online
    • View detailed fine information and pay fees online via PayPal
    • Save searches so you’re alerted when new materials arrive
    • Select and change notification format preferences (phone or email) as well as the frequency you receive these notifications
    • Add your own tags, comments/reviews and star ratings to titles
    • Make purchase suggestions online
    • Create, manage and share lists of your favorite books
    • And much more!
For more information and instructions about how to use our library catalog (Koha), please visit the Tutorials page. In addition, ByWater Solutions provides instructions and tutorial videos about the functionality of the library system here.

It may take some time to get used to the new Koha interface, but our Library Staff is here to help with any questions you have. Contact by email lafslibrary@lafilm.edu.  

Thank you for your patience and understanding as we migrate from one software system to the next. We think you’ll be pleased with the final product!

The LAFS Library

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How to Navigate Staff Connect

Welcome to the Connect Site for Staff

We have updated the Staff portal on Connect!

The Connect site is your one-stop-shop for all school-related activities, news & events, educational resources, department information, and support. This updated style will help you get across the page more smoothly and easily! 

New Staff Features: 

    • Learn about COVID-19 updates on the front page
    • View easily the important Campus News & Events 
    • Navigate your way through the new top Menu
    • View highlighted Bookmarks and more!

If you like to make a request to add, change, or remove anything on the current Connect Site, for student or staff pages, please email helpdesk@lafilm.edu. 

Also, we have updated the Student landing page of Connect! Students will have a different view from Staff because of certain features like:

New Student Features: 

    • Student Current Classes and Schedules
    • Student GPA
    • Student e-Codes for their Software

If you are having technical issues, please CLEAR your browser history & data and QUIT out of your browser, instructions on how to do so can be found here. 

Visit the new Student & Staff CONNECT SITE today and check below for the tutorial.
Staff Connect
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Labs July 2020

Labs July 2020

Labs that students will be eligible to come back on campus for in-person “selected labs” in July are listed below.  Students registered for one of these labs in the July term should check their student portal for the actual schedule of Zoom and in-person class meetings.

APR 270 Analog Studio Recording

APR 271 Large Format Consoles

APR 310 Advanced Audio for Media

APR 400 Advanced Studio Recording

FMP 240 Cinematography II

FMP 270 Production II

FMP 437 Advanced Cinematography II

FMP 440 Advanced Operating and Steadicam

FMP 455 Thesis Film Production

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