Media Centre
Media Centre
The Media Centre is on the 2nd floor of the Reading Room. It completes the National Library’s collections with multimedia documents: feature films and documentaries, audiobooks, music and language teaching aids. The collection holds more than 19,000 audiovisual documents, 2,400 audiobooks and 920 language-learning resources for more than 80 languages.
Online resources
The National Library offers its readers an ever-growing number of digital documents.
Facilities
In the Media Centre are workstations, with and without computers, comfortable chairs, one carrel and three soundproof booths.
At the entrance to the Media Centre, you’ll find a self-service station where you can borrow items such as headphones, adaptor cables or DVD/Blu-Ray players. These accessories are for use within the Reading Room only, and except for DVD/Blu-Ray players, may not be taken outside.
To borrow, simply scan your library card at the station, enter the number of the item you’d like, and confirm.
Staff picks
Every month, our staff pick a selection of titles that are available in the Media Centre.
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Breaking the mould. The story of Penicillin
dir. by Peter Hoar ; written by Kate BrookeThis is a captivating movie about the scientists who developed penicillin in Oxford from 1938 to 1942. It shows their fight to get the state grants, to convince the pharmaceutical industry to invest money, the difficult conditions they work in...
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City of ghosts
dir. by Matthew HeinemanThis documentary follows the struggle of a group of Syrian activists who fought under the banner “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently” – after their city was occupied by ISIS in 2014. The film follows these young men who are effectively...
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Flugt
instruktør og manuskript Jonas Poher RasmussenThis very interesting documentary tells the true story of a refugee from Afghanistan who confronts his past in front of the camera, but as an animated character. Amin Nowabi (pseudonym) arrived as an unaccompanied minor in Denmark from Afghanistan. Now...
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