UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State University Libraries’ Walter and Doris Goldstein Music and Media Center, on the second floor of West Pattee Library at the University Park campus, offers access to a vast collection of music and video resources for teaching, research and personal enjoyment. The collection includes 40,000 audio recordings and more than 10,000 video recordings.
The music collection includes recordings of jazz, classical, folk, international, musicals, soundtracks, pop genres and more, as well as music scores. The video collection includes feature films, documentaries and TV series. The Leisure Viewing Collection, located in the first floor Franklin Atrium of Pattee Library and Paterno Library, offers recent releases of popular TV series and movies from around the world, and recently, titles from the Swank Motion Pictures Digital Campus collection of feature films were added to the catalog.
Streaming video offerings include feature films and a wide variety of documentaries and TV programs from sources such as PBS. The Libraries’ guide to video resources offers tips for finding specific titles and browsing collections. Streaming audio offerings include the Naxos Music Library (jazz and classical recordings) and the DRAM database (contemporary American classical composers). The Libraries’ music guide offers tips for searching for specific titles and browsing collections.