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National Library Week: Super Sized

Nothing is more popular than McDonald's, right? Don't be so sure. To help celebrate National Library Week (April 13-19), take a trip through the information drive-through and see what ends up in your take-out bag. Fact: There are more public libraries than McDonald's in the U.S. - a total of 16,549, including branches. Starring Shad Kunkle and shot at... well, it should be obvious where it's shot at. Click here to watch the rest of the National Library Week videos! Transcript (Opens in new tab or window).

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wonderful

we would really like to download these and play them continuously on a big screen. how can we download them? and can we play them in the liberary?

Yes!

Yes, you may. They are easy to embed in websites (see the embed code to the right), but for a TV you probably need to download the individual movies so you can edit them together onto a DVD (unless you have some other ideas). Instructions on how to download any ALF video are right here:

http://alfocus.ala.org/how-download-al-focus-videos

library week video

amazing...why aren't they captioned for the deaf and hard of hearing?

captions

Someone else asked this question regarding the first NLW video:

and here was the response:

Great question. It's something we're aware of and we're looking for resources that would allow us to do this, since we don't have the resources to do it manually. If you have an idea that might do the job at an affordable cost, we'd love to hear about it.


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