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History: Non-Book Media

DVDs, Blu-Ray, Music and More

Ulster has an extensive collection of material on DVD, Blu-ray, CD, video (and other formats), covering a wide range of subjects and include films & documentaries in Coleraine and Magee; language materials in Coleraine, Belfast and Magee, slides and other media for art and design at Belfast, and music & performance in Magee on DVD, CD, LP and cassette.

Each Library has equipment (and headphones) available if you want to watch of listen in the library, so ask at the Library Information Point.

All Non-book material is listed in the Library Catalogue.

Belfast: ask staff for location of the room, material may only be borrowed by teaching staff and postgraduate students.

Coleraine: DVDs and Blu-ray discs are held in the Short Loan room behind the Information Desk and are course material for Media, English and History students, other audio material is available in Reading Room 1 after the N books.

Magee: There is a designated Multimedia room on the top floor with a variety of equipment and players.

Music CDs and audio tapes In two sequences in the top floor Multimedia room - Dewey and Library of Congress. CDs are for use by Music students.
DVDs and Blu-ray discs Also in the Multimedia room on the top floor, for students in Cinematic Arts or other students on a range of courses.
Scores On the top floor in two sequences - Dewey and Library of Congress. Both have the prefix SCO before the shelf number. They are shelved at the end of the M section.

Box of Broadcasts

 

BoB is Learning on Screen’s on demand TV and radio service for education.  It records programmes  from over 75 free-to-air channels on a 30-day rolling EPG; and has a searchable archive of over 2.2 million broadcasts. You can watch entire programmes or films, make clips of sections, create your own playlist of items.  Programmes are recorded as per broadcast consitions, so will include ad breaks in commercial stations, and occasionally, may also include programmes with signing for hard of hearing - although there is usually an earlier version broadcast without signing.

Click on the image below to go to the Learning on Screen training videos to help you set up, search and retrieve films and other broadcast material in Box of Broadcasts (BoB)

History Collections

Each campus has items of interest to the history student, often on microfilm or microfiche.

To view the details of the microfilm collections, see the guide to Primary Sources.

Non-book media material is included in the library catalogue.  Although many items in the collection may be borrowed, the special microfilm collections mentioned below are for reference only.  Microfilm/microfiche reader printers are available beside the collection.

The Magee Community Collection

Three thousand negatives of pictures of Londonderry and the the North West of Ireland.

For more Information, click on Magee Community Collection