Audiovisual Reading Room
Level 4
Reading Room and collection
The audiovisual reading room offers a wide and diverse collection of sound and video recordings. It can be used on-site in the reading room, in comfortable individual or group rooms.
The open-access reading room offers literature on the following topics: sound research and sound art, sound recording industry, recording studios and equipment, sound processing, streaming, broadcast recordings, radio, television, video, discographies, Latvian and foreign films and directors, animation, documentaries, film production, directing, scripts, Latvian and foreign theatre, theatre production, directing, scenography, acting, special types of theatre, contemporary theatre. Also available are Latvian and foreign periodicals from the last three years on cinema, theater, and sound recordings.
The audiovisual reading room features three "islands of experience" where visitors can play historical audio and video media themselves: records, audio cassettes, CDs, and video cassettes.
The reading room also features the Normunds Naumanis Bookshelf: a collection of selected books from the private library of the distinguished Latvian theater and film critic Normunds Naumanis (1962–2014).
Thematic selections from the collection are displayed in the display cases, demonstrating the richness and versatility of the audiovisual collection.
Services
- Information services – reference and consultations
- Open access book and periodical collection
- Selection and distribution of audiovisual collections for on-site use in the reading room, comfortable individual or group booths
- Subscribed databases
- music recording database Naxos Music Library
- video recording database Naxos Video Library
- Film collections: lists available here
- Digital holdings
Premises
The following sound and video recordings are available for use in the audiovisual reading room:
- 4 individual rooms for 1–2 people,
- 2 rooms for larger groups (4 or more people).