Some other commercial tapes have been purchased for science courses. Its hours are the same as the library's. The commercial videos do circulate. The Teaching Resource Center was founded in 1976 to offer support to K-12 teachers of Russia and Russian Studies. There are 66 VHS videos in the collection covering subjects such as art, music, environment, nature, politics, history, and selected Russian feature films.
Videos circulate for two weeks.
There is also a collection of 142 videodiscs of movie classics or movies based on works of literature. The collection began in 1985, when in addition to audio recordings, the Poetry Room began to record some of its events. The Farnsworth movie collection was made possible with the assistance from the Harvard Film Archive and the Harvard Film Studies Department in the 1990's. Faculty may borrow videos and discs for classroom use. A list of titles is available in the department.