Welcome to "mini-lathe world." To get you started...
David Fenner wrote a series of articles for the british magazine Model Engineers'Workshop - MEW - (started with the Holiday 2007 issue thru Dec 2008 inclusive). Later issues also offer other projects. You can obtain a digital subscription to access all the articles from
www.model-engineer.co.uk (usual disclaimers here).
At
www.arceurotrade.co.uk you can find part 1 of the above series as a .PDF
http://www.arceurotrade.co.uk/reviews/C3_Articles.html
The same company offers a dismantling and reassembly guide - great for how to clean it, lube it & adjust it:
http://www.arceurotrade.co.uk/machineguides/C3 Mini-Lathe Dismantling and Reassembly Guide.pdf
Most of the content of those MEW articles is in two David Fenner books published as part of the Workshop Practice Series - WPS - and available at Amazon (among others):
#43 - The Mini-Lathe, ISBN 978-185486-254-9
and
#48 - Mini-Lathe Tools & Projects, ISBN 978-185486-265-5
There is also another book by this author: Mini-Lathe for Home Machinists that is not part of the WPS. I have not read it but a preview is at:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1565236955/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20
Again, regarding Amazon, the usual disclaimers.
Also, be sure to have a look at
www.mini-lathe.com
Some other titles of useful reading (not mini-lathe specific) include:
The Amateur's Lathe, L. H. Sparey
Ian Bradley's Beginner's Workshop and Amateur's Workshop
Various books in the Workshop Practice Series, including, but not limited to:
#3 - Screwcutting in the Lathe (imo the "bible" of threading)
#34 - Lathework, A Complete Course
As many other posts here will suggest books.google.com offers a treasure chest of old, out-of-copyright machining texts.
The old Popular Mechanics magazines
http://books.google.com/books?id=RdMDAAAAMBAJ
and Popular Science magazines
http://books.google.com/books?id=iigDAAAAMBAJ&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0_0#all_issues_anchor
offer numerous articles about metal machine tool operation and projects.
As for videos Rudy Kouhoupt has a series on pretty much everything about machining. I have not viewed them. If you search for "mini-lathe" on YouTube you'll find lots of info. Similarly, "Tubal Cain" has a huge selection of machining videos (not mini-lathe specific). There is a video rental service - name escapes me - that rents out many of the Kouhoupt (and other authors') videos.
Yahoo Groups (groups.yahoo.com) offer several groups you can join including mlhorology. Simply type "mini-lathe" into the query space. Some groups require prior registry (free) to gain full access.