Audiovisual Media

Audiovisual media - just like print media - are of great importance for the transmission, preservation and communication of mankind's cultural and scientific heritage. The focus of the collection at the SLUB is on audiovisual Saxonica. The oldest recording - a shellac disk with the aria interpreted by Ferruccio Giannini Oh so piousSince the 1970s, the Phonotheque of the Saxon State Library has built up an extensive collection of recordings, including the complete East German production of the two main labels ETERNA and Amiga. With the opening of today's SLUB Central Library in 2002, a generous media library area was created. In 2012, the digital media library was launched with its own online presentation.

In the SLUB's audiovisual collection you will find unique recordings of music performances as well as acquisitions from publishers in the fields of music and film/video. Since 2014, deposit copies of audiovisual media published and released in Saxony have been collected in the media library.

Since the early 20th century, a significant treasure trove of documentary evidence and short film experiments has been created in Saxony. They tell of outstanding events as well as of normality, of lost buildings and customs as well as of intangible cultural assets worthy of preservation. A large number of amateur films and self-edited records provide insights into private spheres of life. The SLUB collection also includes diverse artistic works that reflect the interior of Saxon society in its permanent transition - be it painted and scratched experimental films by Christine Schlegel, Christian Borchert's found-footage collage or essayistic and performative positions by Steffen Reck.

In order to preserve this film, video and sound heritage and make it visible, the SAVE - Safeguarding Audio-Visual Heritage in Saxony coordination office began its work at the SLUB in April 2019. The state project supports Saxon source owners of historical film, video and sound media in the digitization, digital preservation and digital presentation of valuable research documents in image and sound.

• You can search the entire collection in the SLUB catalog. To do this, filter the search results with the facet Collections/Pre- and posthumous estates or Video - then you will also see whether the respective objects have already been digitized.
  
• Digitized holdings are also listed in the SLUB's digital media library.
  
• You also have the option of initiating a digitization order yourself for holdings that have not yet been digitized.
  
• You can find the open access collection of audiovisual media and sheet music in the SLUB media library(Central Library level -1). We will be happy to provide you with information about our holdings there! You can borrow them from our central service desk on level 0.
  
• In the SLUB media library you will also find quiet listening and viewing areas, numerous digital offerings (Saxony in historical films, Digital Concert Hall and much more), a vinyl area for browsing and listening and our Digi-Bar, where you can digitize your records, VHS tapes and other media carriers for private use.

Contact
André Eckardt | Phone: +49 351 4677-499
E-mail: André.Eckardt[at]slub-dresden.de