Watch PBS Programs on Your Desktop

Faculty, students, and other library patrons in North Carolina will soon be able to view quality educational and entertainment programming from PBS over the Internet. A recently signed distribution agreement between PBS and NC LIVE will allow patrons at the state's 197 public and academic libraries to select from nearly 250 PBS programs, including Ken Burns' Baseball and The Civil War as well as the Emmy award-winning series American Experience and Frontline . Also collaborating on the project is UNC-TV, North Carolina's statewide public television network, which is contributing resources to make the streaming video content available to online users.

The service will be available through the NCSU Libraries' website (and other academic and public libraries in North Carolina) starting on January 1, 2008 . For the list of titles that will be available, visit this NC LIVE page . For additional information on a specific title, consult the PBS Video web site , or contact the NC LIVE Help Desk .

NC LIVE , the state's leading purveyor of online library content and services, provides all of the University of North Carolina campuses, the North Carolina Community College System, the North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities, and the North Carolina public libraries with articles and indexing from more than 25,000 newspapers, journals, magazines, and encyclopedias and access to over 25,000 e-book and e-audiobook titles. NC LIVE operates from its offices located at the NCSU Libraries and UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries.

Paid for by grants from the North Carolina State Library, the award-winning programs available from the PBS collection will include the science series Scientific American Frontiers , history series Empires and American Experience , and the investigative journalism program Frontline .