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Audio-Visual Materials Room

Audio-Visual Materials Room

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Features and collections In the Audio-Visual Materials Room, phonographic records, CDs, DVDs, LDs, VHSs are available.
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Books on music and musical scores

Periodicals on music

On open shelves or in closed stacks? In closed stacks. Indexes published by recording companies after 1960 are available in open access.
Opening hours 9:30-17:00
Call-slip acceptance hours 9:30-16:00
Announcement
  1. Audio-visual materials are available only for research and study and with the use of a headphone. Please fill in application form with objective and theme of the research and submit it at the counter.
  2. To use indexes, no application form is needed.
  3. You can request audio-visual materials up to three times a day. Please note that items played on different equipment cannot be requested at the same time.

    Maximum number of items available on one request is as follows:
    Analog record (EP, LP, SP), CD (including single CD)-- 3 Cassette tape* -- 2
    DVD, LD, VHS, DVD-AUDIO, SACD - 1
    *All cassette tapes provided in this room are media-transformed products of SP content. If you request the SP of which the content is already transformed, the cassette tape version is provided. In that case, the maximum number for one request is two.

  4. Materials are to be used only in the room, except when brought out to be photoduplicated.
Photoduplication Same-day service only.
In principle, photoduplication of the jackets, record notes, words and musical scores requires written permission of the copyright holder. Please consult with staff.
Copying of recordings is not permitted.

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