This is a reminder that the library has access to Film & Sound Online, a database of film, video and sound material. Collections include:

• Royal Mail Film Classics: founded in 1933 the GPO Film Unit produced one of the finest British collections of documentary, public information, animation and industrial film ever to come from a single UK source.
• The Imperial War Museum: the IWM film and video collection is recognised as one of the most important moving image resources for the study of all aspects of the major conflicts in which Britain was involved in the 20th Century.
• The Amber Film Collective, which documented working class communities in the north-east of England from the 1960s onwards. Amber Films was one of the first independent, regional film co-operatives.
• Educational and Television Films Ltd: documentaries and feature films relating to the former Soviet Union, Communist China, the European Eastern block, Chile and Cuba.
• Films of Scotland: one of the most coherent local and national film collections in the UK, Films of Scotland charts the changing face of Scotland from the 1930s to 1982.

All films can be downloaded for research use.

Each week, the Facets Free Film Portal spotlights a different set of their favourite films, interviews, arts programmes and documentaries which are available free on the web. The current picks include an interview with Alfred Hitchcock, D.W. Griffith’s 1915 classic silent movie Birth of a nation, and a documentary on Edward Kienholz. 

Facets Multi-Media is a Chicago based non-profit organisation with a mission to preserve, present and distribute independent, world and classic film.

The latest instalment of Adrian Searle’s weekly audio series on major contemporary artworks. This week: Mamma Andersson’s Hangover, at the Stephen Friedman Gallery. The podcast can be downloaded or streamed.

Find the rest of the Guardian art podcasts here.

The subject of Adrian Searle’s latest weekly Art Podcast for the Guardian is Susan Hiller’s From here to eternity, currently showing at the Timothy Taylor Gallery.

Previous topics of the podcast include Elmgreen & Dragset, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Tony Oursler, Nils Norman, Dan Graham, Christian Marclay, and Pipilotti Rist.

The 2008 Frieze Talks and Frieze Art Fair podcasts are now available. These include a keynote lecture on ‘The aesthetic responsibility’ by Boris Groys, Marc Camille Chaimowicz in conversation with Roger Cook, and a panel discussion chaired by music critic Simon Reynolds on subculture,  ‘Is the underground over?’.

The 2007 Art Fair podcasts are also still accessible from this site.

The library is now subscribed to NewsFilm Online, a new service which allows playback and downloading of over 3000 hours of selected films from the ITN / Reuters archives. The films can be browsed by decade (1910s – 2000s) or by subject, including the arts, education, the environment, politics, religion, and science. News stories include Christo wrapping the Reichstag (Channel 4 News, 1995), In-a-gadda-da-vida at Tate Britain (Channel 4 News, 2004), and Tilda Swinton sleeping at the Serpentine Gallery (ITV News, 1995).

Log in to Newsfilm Online via the UK Federation link, select UCL from the drop down list, and log in with your usual network username and password. It can also be accessed via the a-z list of library databases.

Luxonline is offering monthly vodcast interviews with artists such as Sarah Pucill, Chris Welsby and Harold Offeh. The vodcasts must be downloaded via iTunes.

Produced by the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York, Moving Image Source features original articles by critics, authors, and scholars on topics such as Orson Welles, Guy Debord and Bill Douglas, and an up-to-date and extensive guide to online research resources. 

The site also includes a link to the Pinewood Dialogues, a collection of 76 audio files of conversations with influential figures in film, tv and digital media, including Stan Brakhage, David Lynch, Werner Herzog, Michel Gondry, David Cronenberg, Paul Thomas Anderson and many more.

Ubuweb is an online repository of concrete & sound poetry, experimental film, outsider art and all things avant-garde. Produced by the Poetry Foundation, the latest Ubuweb podcast features a selection from the archives: in Avant-garde all the time: Schwitters happens poet Kenneth Goldsmith presents artists including Patti Smith, Joseph Beuys, Robert Wilson, William S. Burroughs, Laurie Anderson, Frank Zappa, John Cage, Andy Warhol, Kathy Acker, Dan Graham, Guy Debord, Kim Gordon, Mike Kelley, Morton Feldman, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Yoko Ono.

Europa Film Treasures is an EU supported online collection of European film archives. All films are for streaming only and cannot be downloaded. All genres are covered, including comedy, science fiction, westerns and animation. The database currently contains fifty films from national collections such as the Scottish Screen Archive, La Cinémathèque française, Filmoteca Española, Deutsche Kinemathek, the Danske Filminstitut, and the Svenska Filminstitutet.