The Library has a few Music & Audio databases that patrons can browse, learn, stream, and download such music related and audio effects for their school assignments or for personal projects. Start listening today!
View the instructions below on how to access and search through Pro Sound Effects database. These resources are available to all active Students, Alumni, and Staff!
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!
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!
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!
View the instructions below on how to log into LinkedIn Learning. This resource is available to current Students and Staff only!
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The story of Oscar Grant, who was shot by police in Oakland, California. Won multiple awards at Sundance Film Festival
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.
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
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
This documentary series follows the 2012 shooting of Trayvon martin by George Zimmerman, and the rise of the BLM movement.
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.
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.
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.
* 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.
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.
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.
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:
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
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:
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
