This presentation covers why and how students use Audio-visual information, what collections Goldsmiths has and subscribes to, as well as information about various public archives of AV material. There's also information about citing this material.

1. November 2014

2. Learning Objectives
At the end of this session, you should:
 Know what audio-visual material is and why it can be
used in academic research
 Know about and how to use Goldsmiths’ collections
and subscriptions
 Know what other resources are publicly available
 Know how to cite them in your assignments

3. What Is Audio-Visual Information?

4. Using Audio-Visual Information
How will you use audio-visual information?
 Required/Recommended viewing for a lecture/seminar
 Independent initiative – to extend your knowledge on a
given subject
 Academics increasingly stream video clips in their lectures
 See events/subjects from first hand perspectives
 Increase the number of sources you use for your research
 Develops skill of visual literacy
 JISC (2009) – only 7% of students use video for internet-based
research

5. Goldsmiths’ Collections
Feature films and documentaries…
…in various collections:
 Audio-visual main sequence (2nd floor)
 DVD helpdesk (ask at issue desk)
 Course reference (ask at issue)

6. Goldsmiths’ Collections
Videos, compact discs, vinyl, audio cassettes, slides…
…in various collections:
 Videos, CD, vinyl and audio cassettes on 2nd floor in
own collections
 Slides available upon request

7. Box of Broadcasts and TRILT
 Box of Broadcasts is an archive of Freeview television
and radio since 2007
 If BoB can’t provide a broadcast, hard copies may be
available from TRILT

8. Our Streaming Collections
We subscribe to a number of resources that give students
access to films, documentaries and news footage:
 Ethnographic Video Online
 Opera in Video
 Theatre in Video (all from Alexander Street Press)

9. Other Streaming Collections for HE
 Arts on Film (films on art produced in the UK, 1950s-)
 BFI In View (British social history, 20th and 21st
centuries)
 British Library Sounds (unique sound recordings,
covers all recorded sound)
 Chronicle (Northern Ireland history, 1960s & 1970s)
 Independent Radio (1973-1996, includes London)
 JISC Media Hub (digital image, video and audio)
 Roundabout (short documentary films about life in
the Commonwealth, 1962-1974)

10. Public Audio-Visual Archives
These can be accessed freely, without log-ins
 BBC Archive (themed collections, 1930s)
 BFI Player (mostly paid-for, has free content)
 British Council Film Collection (British social history,
1940s)
 British Pathé (90,000 historic news clips)
 Colonial Film (6,000 films from the British Empire)
 Luxonline (artists’ website, features clips)
 Moving History (life for ordinary Britons during WW2)
 National Archives (public information films 1945-2006)

11. Citing Audio-Visual Information
Citation guidelines were designed for print materials –
books, journal articles, etc.
How would you cite:
 A television advert
 An extra from a DVD
 A podcast or vidcast
The BUFVC has produced an excellent set of citation
guidelines for audio-visual materials