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Choose the "Video" icon, enter keywords relating to your topic. Put quotes around phrases. Combine keywords with AND (all uppercase) to require both terms to show up in your results. Click the blue search icon:
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Results will be listed by relevance with titles available in the Ely Library listed first.

Videos available at the Ely Library will be marked "Westfield State University Ely Library"
Videos not available at the Ely LIbrary will be marked "At other libraries worldwide".

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Videos available from the Ely Library via our streaming collections can be accessed by clicking the "View Now" button.  You will be required to login with your WSU username and password to view the content in the new tab that opens. 

Videos marked as located in the "Ely Library Video Collection" will be located on the 2nd floor of the stacks, shelved by Library of Congress call number.

You may have these items retrieved from the Stack and placed on hold for you at the Access Services desk
Click the title link to view the full record for the video. 

Then click the "Place Hold" button under "Access Options" at right (you will need to login to use this feature).



Videos marked as located among the "Ely Library Popular DVD's" will be available on the first floor, alphabetically arranged on the shelves by the Circulation Desk.

For items not available in the Ely Library that are available "at other libraries worldwide", you may request these items through interlibrary loan.  Click the title link in the results screen to view the full record.  Then under "Access Options" at right, click the button to "Request Items through Interlibrary Loan" and fill out the form.