Media Services
The Media & Digital Services at Smith Library was established to help High Point University students and faculty create and use multimedia materials in their class assignments, projects, and scholarly research.
What can you do here?
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View and borrow most DVDs and videos from the instructional media, feature film, and media reserve collections. Get assistance on searching and finding videos, and request media items to be added to the collections.
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Borrow digital cameras, camcorders, tripods, voice recorders, CD-players, DVD players, and VCRs.
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Use multimedia computer lab resources and get assistance with the production of academic-related multimedia materials, including videos, podcasts, and graphics.
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Scan documents and images, print posters, dry mount and laminate .
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Book the lecture room for a presentation, lecture or movie.
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Use the lab to view and listen to DVDs, videos, CDs, foreign language tapes and reserve materials.
Copyright & Visual Resources
Copyright is important when considering what visual resources to use in your project. Please remember that citation and attribution rules still apply. For more information about copyright and where to find images for your projects, check out the Copyright: Visual and Digital Resources Guide listed above.
For quick reference of visual resources, check out some popular links and databases below. Not all of them are copyright free, so please remember to check the rights statements on each image.
- Artstor via JSTOR This link opens in a new windowDigital library of over one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities and social sciences. From the linked JSTOR homepage, click the "Images" tab to search the visual materials collection.
- BiblioBoard Anthologies This link opens in a new windowContains anthologies, which are curated collections of books, images, documents, artifacts, sounds and video related to a specific theme. BiblioBoard's anthologies differ in size and scope, but generally you will find dozens of books and other pieces of media related to a topic.
- Creative Commons (images, video, music)Search millions of items licensed under Creative Commons and available to share, use, and remix.
- Digital Public Library of AmericaThe Digital Public Library of America contains over 5,612,233 digitized images, from collections and museums all over America.
- Wikimedia CommonsA database of millions of freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute or download.
