MRC for Faculty

The Multimedia Resource Center offers a number of services for our faculty including placing a Reserve and Movie Viewings (PDF) Note about Media/Collection Listings***

Transcoding video from European and Asian formats to our standard (PAL, SECAM to NTSC) and VHS to DVD.


Importing video and audio into digital format so it can be viewed on a computer (EX: snippets of Asian movies are used by a cinema class for comparison and are in pre-formatted in a .mov file that can be shown on a classroom computer)

Scanning access and some graphics aid for web and Powerpoint

Acting as a reserve area for personal copies of media (temporary), media from the library and individual departments.

Viewing rooms that may be reserved for practicums, consultation and reviews. Our world viewing room is equipped with a large plasma screen, portable whiteboard, a multi-region DVD/VCR player and inputs for a laptop and other equipment.


In-room cameras for American Sign Language and limited equipment that may be signed out for that curriculum. An ASL conferencing unit is available upon request

Audiobooks (purchased via Student Development
Disability Services) from RFB&D® for students

Computer Lab that may be reserved for language testing, limited quizzes and specialty software.

Audio Files
Video Holdings
Library Search
Helpful documents about foreign language keyboards and spellcheck, and accent marks.

*** Those items that DO NOT contain a Call Number are owned by individual faculty and stored temporarily within the collection.

NOTE: Media stored at the Multimedia Resource Center is required to be viewed at our location and not to leave or be checked out overnight without express permission from a professor.