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Penn State Non-Print Materials

BROWSE the Great Valley's collection of audio material which includes:

• music
• books on tape
• books on CD

SEARCH for material throughout the Penn State system.

Penn State's Online Catalog (CAT)
http://cat.libraries.psu.edu/uhtbin/guestcat.exe

• Use the online catalog to find non-print material throughout the entire Penn State Library system.
• Go to Material Type on the bottom right hand side of the CAT's screen and use the drop down menu to limit your search to Audio Material, CD-ROMS, Multimedia Material or Video Material.
• Request materials not available at Great Valley by clicking on the I Want It button.

SEARCH for video and film.

Penn State MediaTech Collection
http://www.medianet.libraries.psu.edu/

More than 20,000 videotapes, digital video discs, and films are available in the Penn State MediaTech collection.  Usage of the collection is free to Penn State faculty, staff, and students.

For More information:

Digital Media can be anything from an image scanned and placed on the Web to video digitized and streamed to your students. The resources listed on this page include pointers to support units that can help create the resources or services that provide an avenue to deliver the resources.

Faculty Multimedia Center (FMC)
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/fmc/

The Faculty Multimedia Center is a facility housing specialized imaging equipment and multimedia software, staffed by consultants experienced with audio, video, and graphic tools. Faculty can make an appointment simply to use the equipment or to schedule a consultation with FMC staff to get a demonstrate of how to create and incorporate media into a computer-based presentation or Web page.

Digital Media Resources (DMR) at Penn State
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/pages/digitalmedia.html

The DMR is a collection of resources established to help faculty, staff and students use digital media in all of its forms. The resources listed cover a wide variety of services from digital asset management to digital media production and facilities to video and audio conferencing, among others.

ITS Streaming Services
http://its.psu.edu/streaming/

Streaming, the process of transferring audio and visual information from a server to a Web browser in a steady and continuous stream, is one of the most exciting technologies available today in the field of higher education. It provides faculty and students with the means to share, archive, and access media on the Web any time of day, from anywhere in the world.  This service is available to all Penn State faculty, staff, and graduate assistants working in resident instruction.

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Digital Images

The following databases can be accessed through the E-Resource List (A-Z) and are only available to current Penn State students, faculty and staff.

ARTstor (pictures of art, architecture, and visual culture)
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dballpsu.html#ARTSTOR0

ARTstor is a database of digital images of works of art and of artifacts of visual culture, intended to support teaching, research and learning in visual culture and related fields. The database contains hundreds of thousands of good-quality images and is growing rapidly.

RLG Cultural Materials
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dballpsu.html#RLG0

A portal designed by the Research Libraries Group to hundreds of digital collections in a wide variety of fields.

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Digital Library Collections

Penn State Libraries: Digital Library Collections
http://apps.libraries.psu.edu/digital/index.cfm

Links to digital collections created or hosted at Penn State University Libraries.

Digital Resources Center
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/preservation/drc/

Digital Resources Center is devoted to the integration of digital technologies and library resources with teaching and research in the arts and humanities. We work with faculty and students to develop digital audio, text and image materials for scholarly projects and provide access to this material as part of the University Libraries Digital Initiatives.

Digital Library Federation

Public access to various online digital library collections.

Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/

The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution, and it serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with more than 120 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves.

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Audio Resources

MUSIC:

Online Music: Napster at Penn State
http://napster.psu.edu/

All Penn State students, faculty, and staff will be eligible to subscribe to the Napster music service. Subscribers can download songs from a collection of over 800,000 tracks, stream an unlimited number of full-length tracks, listen to Napster's fully-interactive and commercial-free radio service, create custom play lists and stations, burn purchased music to CDs, or transfer tracks to portable devices.

Music Audio Resources
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/artshumanities/mmc/music.htm

Music audio is available to Penn State University students, faculty, and staff through the following resources provided by the University Libraries.

Classical Music Library streams classical music from a collection of over 30,000 tracks, with 2,000 new tracks added each month, supplemented by extensive reference materials such as program notes and composer biographies. The musical content is sourced from a variety of publishers.

Naxos Music Library streams music from the complete Naxos, Marco Polo, and Dacapo record catalogs of over 85,000 tracks: mostly classical music, with some jazz, world, and folk music. While listening, users can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers and artists.

Smithsonian Global Sound, a music audio database that streams world music, American folk music, blues, jazz, American Indian music, and children's music. The music is sourced from the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label, the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, and other record labels.

Audio Electronic Reserves (formerly Digital Music Library)
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/artshumanities/audio/digmuslib.html

The University Libraries' electronic course reserve service for audio employs streaming technology to provide Penn State students and instructors access to audio being studied in courses at Penn State University. The service is available to any instructor at any Penn State location. The service is hosted by the Arts and Humanities Library at University Park campus.

Websites:

ibiblio - Sights and Sounds: Audio and Video Resources
http://www.ibiblio.org/

"the public's library and digital archive"

OYEZ - U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia
http://www.oyez.org/oyez/frontpage

The OYEZ Project provides access to more than 2000 hours of Supreme Court audio. All audio in the Court recorded since 1995 is included in the project. Before 1995, the audio collection is selective. It remains our aim to create a complete and authoritative archive of Supreme Court audio covering the entire span from October 1955 through the most recent release.

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Video

Internet Archive: Moving Images Archive
http://www.archive.org/details/movies

Google Video Search
http://video.google.com/

Google Video enables you to search a growing archive of televised content - everything from sports to dinosaur documentaries to news shows.

Television News Archive (Vanderbilt)
http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/

The Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt University is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. These special reports and periodic news broadcasts cover presidential press conferences and political campaign coverage, and national and international events such as the Watergate hearings, the plight of American hostages in Iran, the Persian Gulf war, and the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001.

The Open Video Project a shared digital video collection
http://www.open-video.org/

The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities.

ibiblio - Sights and Sounds: Audio and Video Resources
http://www.ibiblio.org/

"the public's library and digital archive"

Moving Image Contest - Center for the Study of the Public Domain - Duke Law
http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/contest/finalists/

"We are happy to announce the finalists in our Arts Project Moving Image Contest. The contest asked entrants to create short films demonstrating some of the tensions between art and intellectual property law, and the intellectual property issues artists face, focusing on either music or documentary film."

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