LibGuides: Ministry Research Guide: Images, music & video

Finding more help

For more information about audio-visual materials, please consult Media Library Research Guide.

If you need help with the viewing equipment or other related services, please consult Media Resources at the University of Ottawa.

Video collections from the University of Ottawa

Online streaming video!

Ethnographic Video Online
This collection brings together a wide range of streaming video, written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies, covering human behavior the world over.
Films on Demand
Cross-curricular digital library on a range of subjects. Each video is divided in segments which allow users to show only the segments which are relevant to the topic presented.
Docuseek2
Collection of 200 of the best documentaries of recent years.
Filmakers Library Online
Documentaries and independent films from around the world. More than 1,000 titles are available online in a single, multidisciplinary collection of streaming video.
Top Documentary Films
Cultural and Academic Films
This library of academic and cultural films features collections from the Academic Film Archive and the Media Burn Independent Film Archive.
LGBT Studies in Video
A cinematic survey of the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as well as the cultural and political evolution of the LGBT community.

Video from Films on Demand

Religious images

Viewing religious icons and images can be a way to commune with the divine. Even if a religion is not icon or image rich, ARTstor provides images of places of worship or significant personalities within many religions.

Index of Medieval Art
The Index of Christian Art records works of art produced from early apostolic times to 1550. It currently contains nearly 80,000 work of art records, accompanied by over 100,000 images in colour or black and white. There is a particular emphasis and focus on art of the Western world but in recent years the Index has added significant holdings from Coptic Egypt, Lebanon, Ethiopia, Syria, Armenia, and the Near East.
CDRI: Digital resources for the study of religion
The CDRI database provides access to digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography.
Census of antique works of art and architecture known in the Renaissance
An interdisciplinary research database containing documentation on the reception of antiquity. Registered are the antique monuments known in the Renaissance together with the related Renaissance documents in the form of texts and images, and related information about locations, persons and periods as well as bibliographic data.
The Census is a useful tool of research, not only in the field of art history and archaeology, but also for any discipline focussing on the afterlife of the anti
Yale Divinity Digital Image & Text Library
Theology Library: Art (Spring Hill College)
Symbols in Christian Art and Architecture
Archived
New! Insitute for the Study of the Ancient World Ancient World Image Bank
The Ancient World Image Bank is a collaborative effort to distribute and encourage the sharing of free digital imagery for the study of the ancient world.
ARTstor
A major database of art and documentary images.

Sacred music

The Naxos Music library is an international collection of music available to students and faculty of the University of Ottawa. Music is an important aspect of many religions.

Naxos Music Library
A vast online music library with a variety of traditional and religious music.