Media type

Media type usually refers to the physical form of a publication but sometimes also to its contents.

There is a growing number of media types in LIBRIS

At the moment the following types are represented:

Printed music Both Swedish and foreign
Sound recordings At the moment there is only a limited number of this media type in the LIBRIS Database.
Maps Mainly maps printed in Sweden since 1986.
Film/video Mainly Swedish material. At the moment there is only a limited number of this media type in the LIBRIS Database
Microfilm/fiche Catalogues and other material on microfilm or microfiche
Pictures Descriptions of pictures (i.e. architecture drawings, photographs, posters et al) available at some of the major Swedish research libraries. At the moment there is only a limited number.
Posters Descriptions of posters in Swedish library collections (mainly in Kungl. biblioteket, National Library of Sweden- National Library of Sweden).
Digitized pictures Digitized pictures accessible via Internet links (posters are excluded; see below)
Digitized posters Digitized posters accessible via Internet links.
Electronic resources Descriptions of material in electronic form. Magnetic tapes, diskettes, CD-ROMs but also networked resources (with links to the servers or files)
Net-published periodicals Net-published periodicals accessible via Internet links