Collections

We have over 38,000 materials with over 23,500 visual programs including: over 14,000 VHS tapes, 1,900 videodiscs, 7,700 DVDs.

UMDVD (3-Day Free DVD Loans) In 2010, a group of students secured funding from the SGA, the Graduate Student Association, and matching funds from the Libraries to build a new collection of films, documentaries and TV programs that can be borrowed for free by UM students and other members of the University Community. As of July 2011, the collection has nearly 1,750 titles. All DVDs, VHS tapes or other programs not in this collection must be viewed in Nonprint Media Services by students. Faculty and Teaching Assistants may take them out of the library for teaching purposes.

We also have over 5,800 16mm films, 3,700 audio recordings, 7,500 slides and basic audiovisual equipment for loan. A list of commonly used vendors can be found here

• Films@UM

  Films@UM is the University of Maryland's own streaming video collection. It is part of Digital Collections with over 800 digital films covering a variety of subjects. These include documentaries, public television performances, taped performances, and feature films.
• Nonprint Media Services has DVD or VHS copies of all of the programs in Films@UM which faculty may borrow for use in their classrooms. All others may view the programs in Nonprint Media Services in Hornbake Library until the service has been restored. Questions? Call 301-405-9236.

Additional streaming video collections are available via

Research Port

• American History in Video- American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.
• Counseling and Therapy in Video- Counseling and Therapy in Video provides the largest and richest online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. The collection's wealth of video and multiplicity of perspectives allow students and scholars to see, experience, and study counseling in ways never before possible.
• Dance in Video- Streaming video collection of dance performances including ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, improvisational as well as forerunners of the forms and pioneers of modern concert dance. Browse by genre, performer, choreographer, company, role, ensemble, and venue.
• Education in Video- Education in Video is the first online collection of streaming video developed specifically for training and developing teachers. Upon completion, the collection will contain more than 1,000 video titles totaling 750 hours of teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms. It will give education faculty, students, and in-service teachers a single source for the best research-based professional development video resources available.
• Ethnographic Video Online- Comprehensive resource for the study of human culture and behavior – over 750 hours and 1,000 films at completion. The collection covers every region of the world, and includes interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more. All videos and transcripts have been indexed and are fully searchable and browsable.
• Opera in Video- Provides streaming access to 40 full opera performances, most of which were originally released on the ArtHaus Musik label. A wide range of historical periods and styles is represented, and most of the operas included are considered standard repertoire.
• Theatre in Video- Streaming video collection of plays and documentaries. Includes "world's most important plays", live television broadcasts of New York productions in the 50s, contemporary revivals of classic works and experimental performances from the 60s and 70s and multiple productions of some plays.

• Anime
• Diversity
• English as a Second or Other Language
• Queer Cinema
• World Dance