Archive with CDs

Audiovisual media in the National Library's collections

Audiovisual media are music, radio, television, film, video and computer games.

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Find and request audiovisual media

Audiovisual media includes music, radio, television, film, video and computer games. For copyright reasons, you access this material at the Library on computers specifically intended for this purpose.

How it works

  • You can access most audiovisual media via Svensk mediedatabas, SMDB (Swedish Media Database). External link.
  • In addition to a library card, you must be registered as a user in SMDB. To create an account, you need to have a research assignment or be conducting research.
  • You don’t need to order audiovisual material that has already been digitised in advance – you can simply search for it directly when you're logged in to SMDB. You can do this at designated computer locations on level 2 of the Annex.
  • Material that is not digitised must be ordered and digitised before it becomes available. This usually takes from a few days to a few weeks.
  • If your order is to be sent as an interlibrary loan to another library, the material will be transferred to DVDs and sent to the library in question.