Commercial Video Vendors

Action! Library Media Service combines the ease and power of the internet with traditional library jobber services in order to provide Academic Libraries with a single source for their digital video needs. Action! Library Media Service, LLC was founded by Cherene Birkholz in 2006. No stranger to the library industry, Cherene holds a Masters in Library and Information Science and has worked for several prominent library vendors, including: The Dialog Corporation, R.R. Bowker, and Coutts Library Services. Tuning into [...]

Alexander Street Press brings together the skills of traditional publishing, librarianship, and software development to create quality electronic collections. We believe that an electronic publication should: Be carefully crafted by expert editors around a specific subject or discipline. Detail all materials relevant to the subject, whatever their original form or ownership. Contain as many of these materials as possible, in multiple formats if necessary. Be indexed with controlled vocabularies for precise, exhaustive searching. Provide unique ways of searching, viewing, exploring and analyzing the material. Facilitate [...]

The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) is a national nonprofit that expands possibilities for people with vision loss. AFB’s priorities include broadening access to technology; elevating the quality of information and tools for the professionals who serve people with vision loss; and promoting independent and healthy living for people with vision loss by providing them and their families with relevant and timely resources. Headquartered in New York, AFB is proud to house the Helen Keller Archives and honor [...]

Founded in 2005, Typecast Films is a distributor & producer of quality independent films that challenge cultural and political assumptions about some of the underrepresented peoples and cultures of the world. They aim to present audiences with films featuring international perspectives and experiences not often explored in modern cinema. AFD came into existence out of a genuine desire to promote all Arab films. AFD has provided American and Canadian theaters, universities, colleges, museums and media centers with many Arab [...]

Band of Sisters focuses on the life experiences and current-day stories of more than a dozen nuns. Many of them have been central agents in the great social movements of our time. The sisters belong to different congregations from across the United States. http://bandofsistersmovie.com/

In addition to our own productions we supply footage for museums and for broadcast. Our work is currently featured in The American Museum of Natural History, Wall of Life exhibit and in the award winning PBS series Intimate Strangers, a four hour series on microlife and microbiologists. One of our most interesting recent projects was shooting the live micro/macro scenes for The Nature of Things CBC production, Up Close and Personal – The Ecology of David Suzuki, featuring the [...]

BOND/Educator is a resource for professors, teachers and librarians looking for content that adds depth to any collection. We specialize in documentaries that look at contemporary social issues and cultures. http://bondeducator.com/

A social action oriented web site featuring 3 award winning documentary films by Ellen Bruno on human rights issues in Cambodia, Tibet and Burma. Filmmaker and international relief worker Ellen Bruno has spent much of the last 20 years in southeast Asia. Bruno began her relief efforts more than 25 years ago in Mexico, working in remote Mayan villages. Since then she worked in refugee camps on the Thai-Cambodian border, as field coordinator for the International Rescue Committee, she [...]