Cheaper than super-​​cheap Tuesday: watching films at the Library

Yes, you read the title right. The Uni­ver­sity of Sydney Lib­rary has a vast col­lec­tion of fea­ture films, in a vari­ety of lan­guages to boot. The col­lec­tion is mainly at Fisher AV Reserve and at Roselle, but there will be enough at Fisher to keep you busy without hav­ing to trek over to the Sydney Col­lege of the Arts. If you have a lib­rary card, you will be able to bor­row videos from Fisher AV Reserve for three hours at a time.

To explore what is out there, visit the Lib­rary Cata­logue and bring up the Advanced tab:

Step 1: Enter the search as “fea­ture film”.

Step 2: Select the DVD/​VIDEO/​SLID mater­ial type.

Step 3: Option­ally, select the lan­guage that you want.

Step 4: Hit Search!

Altern­at­ively, go to the Sub­ject Search and enter “fea­ture film”; all fea­ture film sub­ject cat­egor­ies begin with “Fea­ture Film”, and you will then be able to nar­row down your search by coun­try of origin.

So there you have it! Many hours of view­ing pleas­ure, for free, if you don’t mind the less-​​than-​​cinematic exper­i­ence of sit­ting on lib­rary chairs and watch­ing it on small tele­vi­sion sets.

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