Some media content is housed in the Wittliff Collections Reading room.
The Wittliff Collections reading room is located on the seventh floor of Alkek Library. All of the materials are non-circulating and must be used in the reading room during the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Mondays through Friday. Access to archival collections and photograph resources is by appointment only.
If you are looking for audio recordings or videos of plays, you can search the Library Catalog by the play title, by author, or by main actor.
Most media content (videos, cassettes, DVDs, and CDs) at Alkek can be found on the 3rd floor.
There are dvd players available for playback.
There are plenty more! Visit the Streaming Databases for the complete list.
Comprehensive multidisciplinary academic streaming video collection. Includes newsreels, award-winning documentaries, field recordings, interviews, lectures, training videos, and exclusive primary footage.
Streaming video collection of the complete dramatic works of William Shakespeare broadcast by the BBC in the 1980s.
Educational, close-captioned videos on all subject areas. Includes archival film and newsreels, documentaries and films from producers such as A&E, BBC learning, and PBS.An external tool is available in Canvas to embed Films on Demand videos.
Current mobile devices supported.
Streaming videos from BBC, PBS, Documentary Educational Resources, Criterion Collection and others. The platform allows you to make playlists and clips, and share links.
Recordings by New World Records and other independent labels. Includes a wide range of genres. 1975 to present. NOTE: Safari is not a supported browser.
Classical works to contemporary plays combined with critical analysis, contextual information, biographies, genres and Nick Hern books.
Classical music from Medieval to contemporary. Access over 98,000 CDs from the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues plus the complete catalogues or selected titles from over 375 classical, jazz and world music labels.
Contains audio speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds, including native and non-native speakers of English.
Graphically rich primary sources depicting popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The library has items from the Criterion Collection. Click here for a listing of all Criterion Collection content in Alkek, or type in "criterion collection" as a keyword search.
There are 317 films from the Critierion Collection available in streaming video from Kanopy.