Multimedia Center

The Multimedia Center (MMC) collection includes DVDs, Videocassettes, and laserdiscs on subjects including: language learning and culture, history, music, art, and commercial films in their original language. The Multimedia Center also houses the Film and Media Studies Collection of super 8, 8mm, 16mm, and 35mm films. The MMC has over 20 viewing stations with DVD players and/or VCRs for student use. Six stations with ResTV are available for viewing cable TV at your convenience. Videos in PAL, SECAM, M-PAL and N-PAL European formats can be viewed with multistandard VCRs. DVDs for US playback are recorded with region 1 encoding. There are also codefree DVD players for viewing region 2-5 DVDs.

Educational Technology Center

The Educational Technology Center loans digital videocameras, mini-DV cameras, and super 8 videocameras, and has a variety of software and hardware to assist students in the production of multimedia presentations. The center has a self-service videotape copying station as well as several scanners, including a large format flat bed scanner, a multipage document feeder, and a slide and negative scanner.

Film and Media Studies Center and Collection

The FMS Center maintains a complete catalogue of the FMS collection, which is housed in the Multimedia Center. The growing collection consists of approximately 14,000 titles available on videotape, DVD or laserdisc. The collection also includes over 1,000 titles on 16mm and 35mm. The FMS Special Collection is an essential research and pedagogical resource for students and faculty, and the FMS Program is a prominent and consistent co-sponsor of campus-wide faculty and student film and media-related events.

An important addition to the collection was made with the purchase in the late 1980s of a large portion of the personal collection (amassed 1977-1986) of James Card, the first film curator at the George Eastman House. The collection, known as the Film Studies Collection or "Archive" until its transfer to its new location in the Multimedia Center, has continued to grow.

Art and Music Library

The Art/Music Library houses approximately 65,000 books on visual arts, art theory, architecture, and photography. The collections also include: over 1,500 CDs, 800 browsable LP's, audio cassettes, and 2000+ musical scores. The library houses eight public work stations and four audio listening stations with CD players, cassette decks and turntables. A slide scanner and a flatbed scanner are available for use with Adobe Photoshop software. Color (and B&W) printing is available from 3 public workstations. There is a group study area located in the Visual Resources Collection. The Art and Music library has partnerships with the Art and Art History department, the George Eastman House, the Memorial Art Gallery, the Multimedia Center, the Music department, and Sibley Music Library.

Rush Rhees Library

Rush Rhees Library contains close to 42 miles of shelving. There are hundreds of lockers and carrels available to students, plus 55 private studies available to researchers and there are about 100 microcomputers (PC and Macintosh) for student use. The Rush Rhees stacks contain the vast majority of film related texts and research material on the University of Rochester campus.

Goergen Athletic Center

The Goergen Athletic Center features a 11,000-square-foot Fitness/Weight Facility, locker rooms, a Multi-Activity Center, an atrium, a Central Issue room for equipment, and all departmental offices. The Fieldhouse includes a 200 meter indoor running track and synthetic activity infield. The Speegle-Wilbraham Aquatic Center includes a 25-yard by 25-meter pool and a separate diving well with 1 and 3 meter diving boards and a 300 seat spectator balcony. The ground floor houses four indoor tennis courts, five international squash courts, 2 racquetball/handball courts, a small aerobics studio and three combination basketball/volleyball courts.