Contacts Phone: +39 02.7234.2830 E-mail: biblioteca.mediateca@unicatt.it

The Media Library offers a series of services for researchers and students who have a keen interest in the Communication and Performing Arts studies, and even - with an increasingly interdisciplinarity - of Languages, Political Science, Education, Psychology.

The Media Library provides the entire UCSC collection of multimedia works with the necessary equipment to watch video recordings and for consultation, study and research of encyclopaedia-style DVDs and CD-ROMs and online databases (FIAF, The Complete Index to World Film Since 1895, International Bibliography of Theatre, etc.).

Users can watch videos with different themes and areas of specialization, ranging from documentary to cinema, video art TV programs of various kinds.

Loan and consultation

Through the OPAC you can request the Media Library DVDs:

• for students = 1 day (between Monday and Friday) or 4 days (from Friday until Monday)
• for teachers = up to 1 week

The works produced over the last two years are ecxluded from loan.

Use of multimedia resources through the Media Library workstations (into the Central Library hall) is possible after booking on-site, calling 02/7234.2830 or sending e-mail at biblioteca.mediateca-mi@unicatt.it.

Users can also access satellite recordings, especially those in the spheres of cinema, television and theatre. In addition, a workstation equipped with editing software enables both students and academics to create multimedia supports (DVDs, CD-ROMs) for educational or research purposes.

Additional services

Thanks to the Media Libray it is also possible to:

• receive a free assistance for personal bibliographic research (reference service) in the field of Communication and Performing Arts studies, by going to the reference point in the Media Libray or by requesting it via e-mail to biblioteca.mediateca@unicatt.it
• consultation of the rich multimedia archive of Rai Teche, with over 1,300,000 hours of television material, about 1,500,000 hours of radio productions, 45,000 photographs of Rai radio and television programs from the middle of the last century to the present day, 95,000 paper scripts and 75,000 writings on entertainment, the media and advertising (exclusively for UCSC teachers and students)
• consult highly specialized databases (International Film Archive Database/FIAF, International Bibliography of Theater & Dance, Classical Music Library, International Bibliography of Art, Kubikat, etc.) that allow the deepening of the disciplinary fields
• make montages with UCSC multimedia resources or own, to be attached to thesis or personal research, using audio/video software made available
• view a selection of the most significant information and cinema programs, recorded at the University Audiovisual Center and searchable through the UCSC OPAC
• enjoy a rich collection increased thanks to a constant research activity of rare theatrical, television and film shows
• consult in the Links page bibliographies compiled with the collaboration of UCSC academics for each subject area of the Media Library, with indications of the most significant monographic works available in the UCSC OPAC

More info:

LIBRARY > STUDY ROOMS > Multimedia room

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS > Multimedia resources