Media/Microforms Services and Theaters
The Media and Microforms Center (West Wing, D. H. Hill Library) is permanently closed as a service point as of summer 2009.
Equipment for viewing and listening to media is available in the library. VHS tapes can be played in the viewing carrels, which are still located in the old Media Center--now open for use during all library operating hours--and DVDs can be viewed at these carrels, on most of the laptops available for check out at D. H. Hill's main circulation desk, and at the desktop computers throughout the library.
Theaters
The Mini-Theater on the second floor of the D. H. Hill Library's West Wing seats 38 and can be reserved by NCSU Faculty.
The Auditorium, also in the library’s West Wing, is scheduled as a 110 classroom by Registration and Records and may, when available, be reserved through that office.
Instructors who schedule video screenings of library-owned material in the Auditorium may contact staff at the e-mail address below to give them the title of the film. Staff will then have the film waiting for pick-up at the main circulation desk on the day of the screening.
However, staff will no longer be able to set-up and close-down showings in the theaters. Instructors, or their designated TA or other student, should check out a theater key and instruction sheet at the main circulation desk.
TAs and students may be designated by sending the person's name in an e-mail to the address below or leaving a message at the main circulation desk.
Library staff will continue to work with colleagues at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill to borrow films from their collections for class showings when the film is not owned by NCSU Libraries.
Media and Microforms Collections
The Teaching Media Collection consists of DVDs known to have been used by faculty during the past few years for instruction. Housed behind D. H. Hill's main circulation desk, these items circulate as previously, i.e., 3 hours for students and 30 days for faculty.
The remainder of the media items--the rest of the DVDs, the CDs, and the VHS tapes--compose the Circulating Media Collection. The DVD portion of this collection is currently housed behind D. H. Hill's main circulation desk.
The CDs remain in the old Media Center. Eventually, both these portions of the Circulating Media Collection will move into a more open, accessible area in D. H. Hill.
The last major portion of the Circulating Media Collection is the VHS tapes, which are now housed at the Satellite Shelving Facility on Sullivan Drive and can be requested via the Libraries’ online catalog.
Items in the Circulating Media Collection can be checked out by students and staff for 7 days and by faculty for 30 days.
Items can be moved from either collection into a reserves area--behind D. H. Hill's main circulation desk--for a class by sending a request using the online reserves form or by sending a message to reserves@ncsu.edu. An item on reserve for a class circulates to students for 3 hours and to faculty for 24 hours.
The microforms collection contains journals, newspapers, reports, and
government documents that have been preserved on microfilm or microfiche. With the exception of the Raleigh Times and Raleigh News and Observer microfilm, this collection is housed at the Satellite Shelving Facility on Sullivan Drive; items can be requested via the Libraries’ online catalog.
Instructions are available at D. H. Hill's main service desk to assist users with the microform reading and scanning
equipment. A flash drive is recommended for saving PDF files created from scanned microform content, though it is also possible to e-mail files from the computer.
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