New Video Training Series at the library

The World Maritime University Library is pleased to announce its acquisition of 22 new maritime training videos in DVD format from the Walport TrainingLink series produced by the VKH Media Group.

Topics include ship security and safety, seafarer's rights under the Maritime Labour Convention, marine pollution, energy conservation, and getting along in the multicultural environment of life aboard ship. WMU students and faculty are welcome to check out the following DVD titles:

• A seafarer's guide to energy conservation and the marine environment
• Cooling conflict
• Crowd management : can you do it?
• From plan to action
• Maritime labor convention : know your rights
• MARPOL : the new rules
• Navigating oceans and cultures
• Pollution response : prepare & prevent 
• Security now! : guidebook
• Security search techniques : accommodation
• Security search techniques : personnel
• Security search techniques : baggage 
• Security search techniques : ship's stores
• Ship security officer : duties and responsibilities
• STCW compliance : 2010 Manila Amendments
• Stowaways! : a new view on prevention
• The Assessment
• The human element : a film about the role of human behavior in safety at sea
• The ISM code : what's it got to do with me?
• The on-scene survey
• The security plan
• Through troubled waters

Usage rights also include viewing in the classroom. You can browse the Walport TrainingLink list in the catalog or you can search for each item by title. To see a list of all the library's DVD's, use the advanced search, select DVD under item type, and click the search button without entering any search terms. You can then sort the list by title, date acquired, publications date, etc.

We hope that library patrons will find these videos useful. And, as always, we welcome your comments and suggestions.

Special thanks to Professor Dalaklis for alerting us to this collection.

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