{"id":18482,"date":"2024-10-24T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/library\/?p=18482"},"modified":"2025-11-11T16:08:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T16:08:50","slug":"box-of-broadcasts-part-1-what-is-it-and-how-do-i-use-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/library\/box-of-broadcasts-part-1-what-is-it-and-how-do-i-use-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Of Broadcasts Part 1 – What is it? and how do I use it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Box of Broadcasts, or BoB for short, is an online, on Demand TV and radio service for education but just how do you use it? and why would you want to? In this 2 part blog we’re going to have an in depth look at BoB and just what it can do for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BoB’s academically-focused system allows staff and students, at subscribing institutions, to record programmes from over 75 free-to-air channels; and search their archive of over 2.2 million broadcasts, so if you’ve heard about a TV programme that you missed which may’ve been useful for your research, then try having a look for it on BoB!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BoB automatically records all the programmes from the nine most popular channels, you can also ask BoB to record from over 50 other free-to-air channels, so if you know something is coming up which you want to see, just request it in advance!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How do I access BoB?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Your first access point should be LibrarySearch<\/a><\/strong> from here you can access Databases A-Z<\/strong> <\/a>as below: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Select B<\/strong> for Box of Broadcasts from the index as below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Select Box of Broadcasts (BoB)<\/strong> as below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How do I log into BoB?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You will then be taken to the Learning on Screen website, then follow the images and steps below to get logged in:-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click on the “Sign in” button to get started:-<\/p>\n\n\n

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Start typing “Canterbury Christ Church University” in the “Where are you from?” box and as you type it should appear in the list as one of the available institutions. Click on it to select it and then click the “Go” button:-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BoB may ask you to sign in, so enter your computer username then password and click on the “Sign in” button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If it’s the first time you’ve used BoB you’ll be asked to create an account, so complete and submit the basic registration form and then look out for the confirmation email to finish the registration process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What does it look like?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Once logged in to BoB you will see the 3 main tabs:-<\/p>\n\n\n\n