Media Central

Resource Center – Second Floor

Hours of Operation 51 hours 30 minutes during course period

Services:

• Borrowing
• Borrowing and return of documents as per the library’s rules, handled through computerized registration.
• Open shelf access
• Playback of audio and video documents in the open section
• Information
• Fact retrieval from physical and digital documents
• Information concerning the library database
• Access to digital information
• Access to OPAC’s digital library catalogue of the Savaria Campus library holdings. Includes The OPAC Database holds documents that have been published or acquired after 1991.
• Access to remote library catalogues and shared catalogues
• Editing and copying
• Assembly of teaching supplements from audiovisual documents, copying of excerpts (for educational purposes only)
• Availability of word processing and other software for creation of teaching supplements

Holdings

• Video
  documents: 2189. 446 new items yearly.
  Educational films, recordings of classes, recordings of teacher training
  classes, documentaries, operas, recordings of musical, theatrical and sports
  events, films (important works of film history) for film classes,  Formats: VHS, DVD.
• Audio
  documents: 4881. 272 new items yearly.
  Our collection focuses on classical, folk, jazz music as well as literary
  recordings. Formats: vinyl record, CD, vinyl tape.

Workstations
in the Media Central

• Viewing/listening stations: 8