The Multi Media Library is the latest addition to the NMML's facilities. Using new technology to conduct audio-video recordings of prominent persons, freedom fighters and others who made a mark in their respective fields, the Multi Media Library is also responsible for creating resources by way of documenting all programmes held at the NMML.
Set up under the Modernization Project of NMML, the following new initiatives have been envisaged for this unit:
Setting up a national resource centre for documentaries and films relating to contemporary times and on issues relevant not only in India but all over the world. Efforts to be made to procure multi-media resources from individuals or institutions or media channels, e.g. CEC, IGNOU, DD and TV History Channels
Setting up an Electronic News Archives to preserve the recordings of select news channels in digital format as is done for newspapers
Creation of audio visual resources in-house from seminars, workshops and interviews
Preservation/restoration of existing film resources on Jawaharlal Nehru and subsequent digitization
Creation of multimedia CDs/DVDs on the lines of the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi and similar works
Starting a Friday Film Club to establish a meaningful dialogue between the creative and the academic. A series of thematic film shows are being planned along with appropriate seminars/discussions on relevant topics. Plans to screen films/documentaries, classics as well as contemporary, on socially relevant themes.
Introduction of recording of professional standards for multiple usage in short capsules to be used for public screenings for Children Resource Centre and other venues.
