Event Title
Finding Latin American and Spanish Videos for Research, Teaching, and Learning
Location
University at Albany, Humanities 290
Start Date
6-10-2017 9:00 AM
End Date
6-10-2017 10:00 AM
Description
Use of streaming video to support research, teaching, and learning is increasingly valued by the academic community. Streaming video services such as Netflix, Amazon Video and Hulu offer limited catalogs of Latin American & Spanish films. Despite the proliferation of videos on the Internet, free and legal access to online Latin American and Spanish videos still remains a challenge.
During this session, faculty and students will learn how to find pertinent videos to use in their courses and research endeavors. This workshop will focus on moving images that are hard to find such as independent films, unedited raw footage, newsreels, recently restored copies, and historical survivor testimonies of harsh realities under dictatorships. The workshop will provide visibility to the “underdog” of the film industry to promote awareness of moving images representing the great variety and diversity of Latin American and Spanish video production on the Internet.
Finding Latin American and Spanish Videos for Research, Teaching, and Learning
University at Albany, Humanities 290
Use of streaming video to support research, teaching, and learning is increasingly valued by the academic community. Streaming video services such as Netflix, Amazon Video and Hulu offer limited catalogs of Latin American & Spanish films. Despite the proliferation of videos on the Internet, free and legal access to online Latin American and Spanish videos still remains a challenge.
During this session, faculty and students will learn how to find pertinent videos to use in their courses and research endeavors. This workshop will focus on moving images that are hard to find such as independent films, unedited raw footage, newsreels, recently restored copies, and historical survivor testimonies of harsh realities under dictatorships. The workshop will provide visibility to the “underdog” of the film industry to promote awareness of moving images representing the great variety and diversity of Latin American and Spanish video production on the Internet.
Speaker Information
Jesús Alonso-Regalado is a Subject Librarian for Romance Languages, Latin American Studies and History at the University at Albany, SUNY. His research interests include online access to Latin American and Spanish videos and their presence in academic libraries, collection development, and subject librarianship. He has published on "Latin American and Spanish Online Videos: Vendor Offerings for Academic Libraries" (Collection Building), "Latin America: An Annotated Bibliography of Reference Works for a Spanish-Language Cultural Library" (The International Information and Library Review), "Librarian for Latin American and Caribbean Studies in U.S. Academic and Research Libraries: A Content Analysis of Position Announcements: 1970-2007" (Library Resources & Technical Services). His current research project focuses on the potential of Latin American open access video initiatives in terms of the nature of content, discovery capabilities, providers, and technological features.