Music and Multimedia Collection

The Music and Multimedia Collection contains information in a range of formats: music scores, CDs, vinyl record, 78rpm, cassette tape, DVDs, video tapes, CD-ROMs, microfilms, microfiche and kits.

Collection items can be viewed and listened to in the library, using the multimedia equipment available, or borrowed for study or home use.

Collection strengths

Music

The Music collection features classical, jazz, popular and Australian compositions. Of particular note are the Ethnomusicology collection and the specialist music archives:

• Music scores
  Including study scores, performance scores and parts, treatises and methods books, facsimile editions and collected works of major composers
• Sound recordings
  Including CD, vinyl, 78rpm, audio cassette and access to a substantial collection of on-line recordings via databases.

Multimedia

The Multimedia Collection features film, television, history, Asian studies, Australian studies, archaeology, education, theatrea and performance, and Australian and overseas newspapers in a variety of media types including:

• DVDs and Videos
  Including feature films, foreign language films, television programs, documentaries, music master classes, music concerts and theatre studies
• Microforms
  Including journals, newspapers, Monash University PhD theses and research resources
• CD-ROMs
  Including English literature and poetry, history, and Asian language
• Kits
  Including language tutorials, IELTS, education and instructional type content.

Location

Ground floor, ISB Wing
Sir Louis Matheson Library
Building 4
Wellington Road
Clayton VIC 3800
Australia

Monday to Thursday 8.30am to 6pm, Friday 8.30am to 5.30pm.

Borrowing

Use Search to discover material in the collection.  Most items are available for loan to Monash University staff and students, CAVAL, ULA borrowers and fee-paying members.  Some collections of rare material are on closed access and can only be consulted in the library.  Search will indicate whether the item you want is on closed access. Ask for assistance to use this material. Staff and students from other institutions can borrow most material held in the collection by requesting the required item from the Document Delivery/Inter LibraryLoans section of your institution's library.

Items in high-demand may be placed on restricted loan.  Loans may be overnight or the item may be placed in the Matheson Reserve collection on three hour loan.

Loans for class screenings must be arranged in advance with the Multimedia Officer.

Bookings and equipment enquiries: Multimedia Officer.