BoB is a service from the British Film and Video Council that enables you to record and view TV and radio online from the free-to-air channels. See http://bobnational.net.
Record: You can schedule programmes to be recorded which will be broadcast over the next seven days, as well as retrieving programmes from the last seven days. All you need is access to the internet and your ATHENS login. You do not need to be on-site at the University. You can schedule up to three per recordings per day, and if you need more, just contact our digitisation team (digitisation@northampton.ac.uk ; 01604 892383).
Playback: You can playback recordings over the internet, which means you can access them wherever you have an internet connection. You don’t have to worry whether the DVD will be in the library!
Access to the national BoB online archive: As well as the material you have recorded, you can playback and make clips from all the material recorded on BoB by other UK university staff and students.
Make clips and create your own play list: You have your own profile within BoB, so you can make your own clips to play in lectures and store play lists of your favourite broadcasts.
Use Subtitles: you can choose to playback programmes with or without subtitles, according to the needs of your students. BoB automatically records all programmes with the ability to have subtitles turned on or off.
Licensing arrangements do not permit Open University programmes to be recorded via BoB. If you want to record an Open University programme, contact digitisation@northampton.ac.uk (01604 892383), who will arrange to record the programme to DVD for you under the OU licence. You can view a list of up and coming Open University programmes.
For general information about BoB, email or phone the digitisation team (digitisation@northampton.ac.uk; 01604 892383).
To book a one-to-one demonstration, contact the Academic Librarian for your subject area.
