Pitman, 'Videodisc Additions', NCSU Libraries Newsletter v20n11 (July 1993) _The NCSU Libraries Newsletter_ Volume 20 no. 11 July 1993 Pitman, Ronnie "Videodisc Additions" The NCSU Libraries recently purchased the Voyager Company's videodisc set entitled _Louvre_. The computer-interactive set consists of volume 1--_Paintings and Drawings_, volume 2-- _Sculpture and Objets d'Art_, and volume 3--_Antiquities_. It contains more than 5,000 works of art and 35,000 detailed images that may be viewed by artist, period or style, century, theme, and medium. The focus of volumes 1 and 2 is European art from the late-Gothic period to the mid-nineteenth century. Volume 3 covers ancient art and artifacts from Greece, Rome, Egypt, and the Near and Middle East. The Libraries also has acquired the _JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance_. This video set, featuring thirty videocassettes and nine books, covers 500 performances in 100 countries and regions of the world. Included are glossaries, maps, essays "on the social, cultural and historical background of the regions and music," and a master index. A third acquisition encompasses four videodisc sets of encyclopedias. The first is _The Video Encyclopedia of the 20th Century_, a massive tool comprised of eighty-three hours of historic film footage on forty-two videodiscs that are organized into more than 2,300 "video chapters." It covers areas such as the arts; popular culture; sports; politics, government, and global affairs; and science, medicine, and technology. The Libraries' license allows users of the encyclopedia to transfer clips to videotape for use in presentations, for classroom instruction, or to make "video documentaries." When the Media Center's multimedia workstations become fully operational later this year, users will also be able to capture clips from the videodisc, download the clips to computer diskette, and manipulate them using presentation manager software. The other three videodisc sets of encyclopedias are _The American History Videodisc_, _The World History Videodisc (Non-European History)_, and _The Western Civilization Videodisc_, all produced by Instructional Resources Corporation. Cumulatively, these discs contain nearly 7,000 images that relate to almost every field of human endeavor-- history, philosophy, religion, literature, sociology, economics, science, technology, medicine, fine arts, etc. As with _The Video Encyclopedia_, images may be used to construct video presentations. All videodisc sets, as well as the multimedia workstations on which to view them, will be located in the D. H. Hill Library's Media Center. If you have questions about the videodiscs or when the workstations will be in operation, please call the Media Center at ext. 5-2977.