Teaching and research on our Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses Media Theory is supported by an extensive range of services in the Media Arts Department, the College and the wider University of London. These include:

• Our departmental teaching and research video/DVD collection consisting of over 3,000 titles
• BoB (Box of Broadcasts) which archives any TV programme selected by staff or students and streams it to any university computer: http://bobnational.net/ 
• Dedicated film screening and copying facilities
• A very extensive video/DVD loan collection in the Founders Library
• A substantial collection of books, journals, e-journals and electronic databases for film, television and media studies in the Founders Library
• Access to major databases of film and TV material, some of which the department has helped to create:
  

  www.nfo.ac.uk (3000 hours of ITN news and documentary material organised by story subject from as far back as 1955. It has a wide thematic range that embraces the domestic and the international.)
  www.videoactive.eu (10,000 items from broadcasters across Europe ranging across all the genres of TV, but concentrating, for copyright reasons, on factual material. It has a wide thematic range (including for instance 'TV about TV') and a search facility that brings up results in all of the 10 languages that are covered. Contributing broadcasters include BBC, ORF, DR, Deutsche Welle, TV Catalunya etc) 
  www.bfi.org/inview (over 1000 hours of TV material (Thames 'This Week', BBC's 'Tonight', Channel 4's After Dark), Ministry of Information material, long-form interviews from the 1960s, documentary material from the beginning of the 20th century etc. Its core themes are: Education; Health; The Environment; Immigration, Race & Equality; Industry and Economy; Law and Order.

• Use of the databases of the British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC):
  

  the TRILT database: http://bufvc.ac.uk/tvandradio/trilt giving details of all programmes broadcast on British TV since 1995
  the TVTiP database of ITV programmes 1955-85  http://tvtip.bufvc.ac.uk/index.php

• Borrowing rights at the University of London Central Library at Senate House

The British Film Institute with its extensive archival and library resources, though not part of the University of London’s central facilities, is within easy access and is an invaluable facility for researchers at all levels.