Collections

• American History in Video - a rich collection of documentaries, archival footage, newsreels, and classic film studies documentaries: more than 2,000 hours and 5,700 titles when complete. While the focus of the collection is American history, it's material can support scholarship across all disciplines.
• Music Online, including Classical Music Library, Classical Scores Library, and Jazz Music Library - The largest multi-label music recording databases featuring downloads, streams, genres, biographies and music history.  Create and share play lists.
• Counseling and Therapy in Video - online collection for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling.  Currently holds 285 videos, transcripts and guides.
• Dance in Video - online dance performances and documentaries about choreographes and dance training. Currently holds 314 titles, equalling 275 hours of video.
• Theatre in Video - contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's plays and more than 100 documentaries, online in streaming video - representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors. Look for the Royal Shakespeare Co. on BBC and American theater groups such as The Actors Studio.
• CDs (7,460)
• Phonograph records (9,500)
• Music scores (13,300)
• DVDs (6,100), standard format and Blu-Ray
• Videos (8,500)
• 16mm films (708)
• Computer software (3,078)
• Other media: laserdiscs, cassettes, slides, filmstrips and more
• John L. Clark Collection of Jazz Recordings
• Curriculum material and textbooks for preschool - 12th grade, Adult Education and English as a Second Language to support the VCU School of Education
  

Production Collections

Visual and sound collections for which VCU has production rights:

• AP Images - Photos, charts, illustrations and audio clips from the Associated Press, from 1826 to yesterday's news.
• ImagesMD - Online encyclopedia of over 50,000 medical images.
• The Art of Foley - 10 CD's for Sound Ideas.
• BBC Sound Effects Library - Over 3,000 sound effects, with an index. 40 CD's or LP's
• Sound Ideas Sound Effects Library - 219 CD's with sound effects and ambient tracks, with an index. Includes Lucasfilm Ltd. sound collection.
• Extreme Music Library - 14 CD Production Music Library
• The Video Encyclopedia of the 20th Century - 87 hours of historic primary source film footage, with an index and reference texts. Covers late 19th Century through 1986. 44 laserdiscs.
• ITN/Reuters Stock Footage Library - 8 videos of European news footage.
• The Elegant Solution - 13 videos with clips of engineering achievements from 20 countries. 
• The American History Slide Collection - 2,100 35mm slides covering American history and culture
• Western Civilization Slide Collection - 21,000 35mm slides covering Western History and Culture.