Media Collection: Resources for University Classes

udiocassettes

Learn languages from Arabic to Vietnamese, sample the exotic sounds of ocean and jungle, hear history reenacted and poets reading from their works, ease stress and enjoy a variety of music when listening to the Media Collection's audiocassettes.
 

ig Books

Select books by Eric Carle, Joanna Cole, Steven Kellogg, Jane Yolen, Bill Martin Jr., Tana Hoban and Tomie De Paola from among the more than 150 fiction and nonfiction titles in this collection.
 

D-ROMs

Travel to the Animal Planet and a distant star, to Arthurian England and Amazonian jungles, to the Louvre in Paris and the National Palace Museum in Taipei, to the heart of the human body and the eye of a hurricane. Find, also, the National Geographic Magazine and Maps among the Media Collection's CD-ROMS.
 

ompact Discs

Enjoy unlimited checkout of the Media Collection's classical, jazz, ethnic, rock, soundtrack, and children's titles. Note especially The Ring Disc on CD-ROM, as well as the New World series of historic American music and the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music on CD. Our classic rock titles include many of Rolling Stone Magazine’s Top 100 Albums from 1967 to 1987.
 

quipment

Use Media Collection equipment in-house only. Select from audiocassette decks, a caramate, CD players, a DVD player, a slide carousel, televisions, a turntable, and VCRs. Run CD-ROMS and print in color at the multimedia station. Equipment on which to show Media Collection materials in the classroom may be reserved by calling Instructional Media Services at x2084.
 

uvenile Books

Remember Harry Potter, or Miss Spider, or Frog and Toad or Ramona or Curious George? Find friends old and new among the Media Collection's juvenile literature titles. A variety of award-winners--Caldecott, Newbery, Coretta Scott King, Pura Belpre, Orbis Pictus, Scott O'Dell, Mildred L. Batchelder, and Boston Globe-Horn Book--as well as the School Library Journal’s “One Hundred Books That Shaped the Century” and Literature Correlated to South Carolina Science Standards, form the core of a collection expanding to meet the challenge of a literature-based curriculum.
 

Ps

Savor the warm sound of vinyl while discovering legends of the classical, jazz, musical theatre, and pop genres in memorable performances. The Media Collection retains a select browsing collection of LPs featuring such artists as: Eubie Blake, Maria Callas, Enrico Caruso, Carol Channing, Ray Charles, Chicago, Billy Ekstine, Lionel Hampton, Buddy Holly, Vladimir Horowitz, Mario Lanza, Mary Martin, Lauritz Melchior, Ignace Paderewski, Edith Piaf, Ezio Pinza, Serge Rachmaninoff, Buddy Rich, Artur Rubinstein, Helen Traubel, and Richard Tucker.
 

aps

Visit remote corners of the earth, bygone eras and the deep reaches of space with the Media Collection's nearly 200 National Geographic maps. With United States Geological Survey (USGS) maps, examine the topography of North and South Carolina. With vintage maps by the same USGS Survey, examine the Atlantic Coast and principal American cities as they were in 1947. Locate other intriguing sites in the Government Document and Miscellaneous map collections. All maps may be accessed by subject-indexed notebook, many by the WebPAC.
 

ictures

Seek and find a treasure trove of color and black and white pictures in the Media Collection's subject-indexed Picture File. Pictures of exotic locales, unusual people, endangered wildlife, artists and their art, natural disasters and historic achievements are among the thousands of pictures available for checkout. Book jacket covers have their own folder. Some of the pictures are mounted and laminated.
 

osters

Visualize a variety of people, places, and works of art with the Media Collection's over 1200 posters. Search for posters via the Online Catalog or scan subjects such as animals, government, health, history, language arts, government, multiculturalism, physical education and science in an indexed notebook.
 

ealia

Pick the "real" thing! Bring a book to life with a hermit crab, lion, clown, or little red hen puppet. Clarify the consequences of smoking with a model of a diseased lung or a board of graphic illustrations. Encourage empathy for the physically challenged with a doll in wheelchair or a doll led by a guide dog. Count coins with "colossal" nickels and dimes. Examine human anatomy with a model of a skeleton or an ear or an eye. Put the solar system in perspective with a simulator of the sun and nine planets. With the Media Collection's realia, take lessons and presentations out of the ordinary.
 

cores

Scan the concertos and operas and string quartets and symphonies by Bach and Barber and Debussy and Faure and Mahler and Prokofiev and Schubert and Wagner and more in full score.
 

lides

Look for numerous slide sets among the prints, videos, CD-ROMs and teacher's guides on extended loan from the National Gallery of Art. Find these materials, which include the titles Art of the American Indian Frontier, Rodin Rediscovered, European Renaissance Art, Classical Mythology in European Art and Early Modernism, shelved behind the Media Collection circulation desk.
 

ideotapes

Open the drawers of the Media Collection's video cabinets and browse over 2000 titles for instructional and recreational viewing. Titles in support of the University's curriculum include many relating to art, education, Latin American studies, and literature. Many of the Media Collection's feature films--including The Gold Rush (1925), Frankenstein (1931), Citizen Cane (1941), Some Like it Hot (1959), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest(1975), Platoon (1986), and Schindler's List (1993)-- appear on the American Film Institute's list of America's 100 Greatest Movies.