NCSL University--or NCSLU as we call it--provides the nation's state legislators, state legislative staff and the general public access to sessions produced at NCSL meetings, as well as e-learning content generated for legislative audiences. As the Forum for America's Ideas, NCSL exists to provide platforms to allow for the free-flowing exchange of ideas and information on the issues that matter most.

Texas Governor Rick Perry talks about his view of state-federal relations in this excerpt of his speech at NCSL's Legislative Summit in San Antonio in August 2011. Watch the full video of Governor Perry's remarks. You can watch and listen to other sessions from the Summit here.

This online learning area allows you to look at sessions based on NCSL's meetings and by issue areas. You'll find featured videos, audio recordings and webinars that will bring you up to date on everything from high-speed rail to high-risk insurance pools.

There are different ways to search for multimedia on the NCSL website. Each of the individual meeting and issue pages on this site will allow you to search just those collections. You also can search the entire Multimedia Library database. In the comprehensive library you can sort the multimedia by topic, title or date.