Media items can be a valuable source of information for many topics. Films, interviews, news reports, radio broadcasts, and historic images may provide a deeper explanation into your topic than an article, or they may cover a unique perspective of an issue that you hadn't seen before. Educational films tend to qualify as scholarly resources, but most news and radio broadcasts would be considered general, popular sources. Consult your assignments' directions to ensure you are able to use media items as for your project.
Including media items in your project can be tricky. While it may be easy to copy and paste media into a presentation, there are copyright issues you must consider before using a video or audio clip. You will learn about these in greater detail in Chapter 5.
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<EDIT>Your library has a variety of physical and electronic media items, DVDs that you can check out for one week. Many are scholarly sources, although some are popular videos for leisure viewing, music CDs and audiobooks which you can check out for 30 days.<EDIT>
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