The Nonprint Collections at the three Triangle Research Libraries are interdisciplinary collections to support the curriculum of the respective campus. Materials are generally purchased as a result of faculty request, although individual bibliographers occasionally fill in gaps within the collections.

Duke University's Media Department had its beginnings in response to the film studies program. Today the strengths of the feature film collection are in early cinema, classic films, and foreign features. Documentaries and animation are also collected. All films and videos have interdisciplinary uses. Foreign films are collected in the original language with English subtitles when available. Duke also owns substantial holdings of Canadian film and audio materials.

The North Carolina State University Media Center collects 16mm films, filmstrips, computer discs, slide-tape programs, audio cassettes and video cassettes. However, the collection is overwhelmingly in 1/2" and 3/4" video cassette formats. These titles have been selected to support the entire University community's instructional needs, but the majority of the programs support undergraduate teaching in the humanities, social sciences, biological sciences, and foreign languages. Documentaries and educational video cassettes are more predominant in the collection than feature films.

The Nonprint Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was established as a joint effort of the Library and the now-defunct UNC Media and Support Center. The collection is designed to meet the audio-visual needs of the entire University community. The emphasis of the collection is almost equally split between educational film titles and feature film on video. All films have interdisciplinary uses. Foreign films are collected in the original language with English subtitles.

POLICY

The cooperative collection development policies and reciprocal borrowing privileges of the Media Departments of the three research libraries are based upon a long history of cooperation for the purpose of extending individual budgets, thereby providing the three institutions access to a greater number of unique titles. This cooperative policy allows the purchase of more faculty requests, makes possible the collective purchase of a greater number of expensive titles, and increases the circulation of seldom used, but desirable titles.

Types of materials for reciprocal borrowing:

1. 16mm film
2. Video formats purchased for cooperative use
3. Video formats at the discretion of home institution

Criteria for cooperative purchase:

1. Educational or curriculum-related materials that would not receive sufficient use on any one campus to justify purchase.
2. Multiple requests for a unique title.
3. Expensive titles costing over $500.

PROCEDURE

Use of materials:

1. Materials borrowed are for on-campus use only in classrooms or in the nonprint/media department.
2. Reservations will be made through the respective nonprint department.
3. Reservations are on a first-come, first-serve basis. Some titles will not be available due to heavy demand at the home institution.
4. Length of loan is one week.
5. The borrowing institution is responsible for replacing film or video lost, stolen, or severely damaged at the current market price of that particular title.

Purchase of Materials:

1. Each institution will earmark $2,000 for the purchase of film/video materials for cooperative use. Titles purchased with these funds will be jointly selected at the bimonthly meetings of the media librarians.
2. Nonprint librarians will be responsible for informing each other of any request and/or orders for titles over $500 and the receipt of such materials.