These titles have been selected to support the entire University community's instructional needs, but the majority of the programs support undergraduate teaching in the humanities, social sciences, biological sciences, and foreign languages. Documentaries and educational video cassettes are more predominate in the collection than feature films. The Nonprint Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was established as a joint effort of the Library and the now defunct UNC Media and Support Center. The collection is designed to meet the audio-visual needs of the entire University community. The emphasis of the collection is almost equally split between educational film titles and feature film on video.
All films have interdisciplinary uses.
Foreign films are collected in the original language with English subtitles. The cooperative collection development and reciprocal borrowing privileges among the Media Departments of the three research libraries are based upon a long history of cooperative collection development for the purpose of extending individual budgets, thereby providing the three institutions access to a greater number of unique titles. This cooperative policy allows the purchase of more faculty requests, makes possible the collective purchase of a greater number of expensive titles, and increases the circulation of seldom used, but desirable titles. Multiple requests for a unique title. Reservations will be made through the respective nonprint department.