Video Guide

Use this quick link in Summon Advanced Search to browse all DVDs and VHS in our collections that have captions.

Use truncated keywords "Close* Caption*" to search for all variations of "closed-captioned," "closed captioning," and others. Titles can also have caption information notated with the subject/genre heading "Video recordings for the hearing impaired."

1. Find the title you want in Summon and click on the search result. 
2. When viewing the item record, click Detailed Record on the right side of the screen 
3. Look in the record for mentions of closed-captioning. This can be found in several places, depending upon the item: 
   • Notes or Languages field with the phrase "Closed-captioned"
   • Genre or Subject of of "Video Recordings for the hearing impaired"
   • Genre or Subject of "Films for the hearing impaired"
4. Write down the Call Number and present it to the Bird Library 3rd floor service desk to request the DVD or VHS. 

How to find Captioning in AVON:

1. Go to our Databases menu and locate Academic Video Online (otherwise known as AVON)

2. Browse a list of over 75,000 videos!
3. Click on the video you would like to watch. 

4. Click the Captioning button in the bottom right corner of the video and choose your preferred language.
   • You can also choose the Automatic Translation option for an "on-the-fly" machine translation. 
   • If there is no captioning button, the video unfortunately does not contain closed-captions. 

How to locate captioning in Kanopy:

1. Go to our Databases menu and locate Kanopy

2. Browse a number of films of various genres!
3. Click on the video you would like to watch.

4. After pressing Play on the video, locate the Captions button in the bottom right corner of the video. 
   • In Captions Settings, you can change various aspects of the captions, such as the font size and color

How to find Captioning in Swank:

1. Locate Swank Digital Campus on our Databases menu 

2. Browse dozens of videos by title or category!
3. Locate the video you would like to watch. 
   • After clicking on the video, information about the video will appear at the bottom of the screen, including an icon for closed-captioning (if the video contains them). Then, click on the Watch button. 

4. Locate the icon in the bottom right corner of the video, as shown below. Here, you will be able to turn on closed-captions. 

AVON will provide audio descriptions for videos upon request. To request, please contact colls@syr.edu