LibGuides: Religion: Videos & Images

Searching For Multimedia Material with Library Search I Ketu

You can use Library Search | Ketu to search for multimedia including images, photographs, video, audio and musical recordings Use the Refine My Results: Type limiter to narrow your search results to multimedia content types e.g Audio Visual You must have your student ID with you to borrow DVDs/Videos/CDs

This online exhibition was curated by the University of Otago's Special Collections staff. The catalyst for this exhibition was the inventory of Middle Eastern and Islamic language materials compiled recently by Dr Majid Daneshgar, former lecturer at Theology and Religion at the University of Otago, now University of Freiburg, Germany. On display are a number of Arabic, Urdu, Persian, and Turkish language books and manuscripts.

Multimedia Databases

Looking for a documentary, image, sound file, chart etc? Then try one of the following:

Databases specialising in videos:

Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
A cross-search interface that provides access to the Library subscribed video collections from Alexander Street.
eTV This link opens in a new window
Provides real-time resources through recorded TV programmes, live streams and on demand videos. First-time users must register: select University of Otago, use University staff or student email address only, password will be sent to email. Thereafter login requires registered email address/password.
Provides real-time resources through recorded TV programmes, live streams and on demand videos. Includes TV recordings of programmes from over 30 domestic and international television channels, the entire Archives New Zealand historical film collection along with other educational content in many subject areas, live TV channels in English and other languages. Media hosting is available where videos and related materials may be uploaded to the eTV Library for online access by staff, students, and the wider educational community.
Kanopy This link opens in a new window
A streaming service that provides access to video content sourced from leading suppliers. The Library subscribes to a selection of titles from this collection.

Databases specialising in images:

ARTstor Digital Library This link opens in a new window
The current version of ARTstor supports the following browsers: IE 7.0+ ; Firefox 3.0+; Safari 3.0+. A nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
The following system configurations are recommended for the optimal use of the ARTstor Digital Library: A high-speed internet connection; Java version 1.3 or later installed on your browser (Mac users accessing ARTstor through Innovative Proxy must have Java version 1.5 or later); Flash Player version 6.0 or later installed; Pop-up blockers are either disabled or configured to allow pop-up windows from www.artstor.org; Cookies are enabled in your browser; Monitor resolution is set at 1280 x 1024 pixels or higher; Screen colours are set to True Colour (32 bit) or better.
Hocken Snapshop This link opens in a new window
A small sample of the photographs of New Zealand people and places held at Hocken Collections. You can print or download any of these images for personal and research use.

Databases with a variety of content types e.g. videos, photographs, sound files:

Anthropology (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new window
Anthropology brings together a wide range of ethnographic documentaries, indigenous media, field notes, study guides and raw footage, covering human behaviour the world over. Essential for study in the areas of politics, economics, history, psychology, environmental studies, religion, area studies, linguistics, and geography, the database will contain more than 1,800 films at completion.
DigitalNZ This link opens in a new window
Aims to make New Zealand digital content easy to find, share and use. This includes content from government departments, publicly funded organisations, the private sector, and community groups.

Online Gallery: Sacred
Videos, podcasts, and interactive features to complement the British Library's online gallery of sacred texts
Vatican Library Digitalisation Project
The Vatican Library was founded in 1451 AD and holds over 80,000 manuscripts, prints, drawings, plates and incunabula (books printed prior to 1500 AD) written throughout history by people of different faiths from across the world.