English summary: The holdings in libraries, archives, and general media collections today are typically multimedial. In this book, the technical elements of non-print media, their production and distribution, the structures and the foci of their content and representational forms are all brought together in context: music, film, electronic publications, literature and childrens programs, computer and video games, essential results of reception studies in connection with non-print media, media-collection praxis (in libraries, archives, radio archives, and media centers among others) in terms of holdings, development, and use. Non-print media, online publications, microforms, and image media (among many others) are explicitly dealt with in this book. This hand- and textbook is aimed at practitioners in information services and media collections such as libraries or media archives, who wish to update their expertise in the field through a systematic review of all related subjects, especially for those who have enrolled in classes for media or library sciences at a university or technical school. Translated Table of Contents: 1 Non-print Media 2 Current Trends 3 Hardware 4 Analog and Digital Storage 3.2 Mechanical, Magnetic and Optical Storage media 3.3 LP, Singe, and Recording Forerunners 3.4 MC, DAT, DCC3.5 CD and SACD 4.6 MiniDisc 3.7 CD-ROM 3.8 VHS Video 3.9 DVD, UMD and Blue-Ray Disc 3.10 Microforms 3.11 Trends 312. Selected Sources 4. Audio Media 4.1 Music Media 4.1.1 Production and Content 4.1.2 Distribution and Reception 4.1.3 Practices in Media Collections 4.1.4 Selected Sources 4.2 Audio-books and Educational Media 4.2.1 Production and Contents 4.2.2 Distribution and Reception 4.2.3 Practices in Media Collections 4.2.4 Selection Sources 4.3 Childrens Programming in Recording 4.3.1 Production and Contents 4.3.2 Distribution and Reception 4.3.3 Practices in Media Collections 4.3.4 Selected Sources 5 Film Media 5.1 Film Production and aesthetics 5.2 Production and Contents 5.3 Distribution and Reception 5.4 Practices in Media Collections 5.5 Selected Sources 6. Electronic Publication 6.1 Electronic Publications in Data Storage and Online 6.2 Producers and Types of Electronic Publication 6.3 Business Models and Open Access 6.4 Practices for Information Devices, Use of Electronic Publications 6.5 Selected Sources 7. Computer and Video Games 7.1 Hardware, Development 7.2 Production and Contents 7.3 Distribution and Reception 7.4 Practices in Media Collections 7.5 Selected Sources 8. Microforms 8.1 Production and Contents 8.2 Distribution and Reception 8.3 Practices in Media Collections 8.4 Selected Sources 9. Image Media 9.1 Production, Content and Distribution 9.2 Practices in Media Collections 9.3 Selected Sources 10 Index German description: In Bibliotheken, Archiven und allgemein in Mediensammlungen sind heute die Bestande multimedial. In diesem Buch werden im Zusammenhang dargestellt: die technischen Grundlagen der Nonprint-Medien, ihre Produktion und Distribution, die Strukturen und Schwerpunkte ihrer Inhalte und Darstellungsformen: Musik, Film, elektronische Publikationen, Literatur und Kinderprogramme, Computer- und Videospiele, wesentliche Ergebnisse der Rezeptionsforschung in Bezug auf Nonprint-Medien, die Praxis in Mediensammlungen (Bibliotheken, Archive, Rundfunkarchive, Medienzentralen u.a.m.) hinsichtlich Bestand, Erschlieaung, Benutzung. Ausfuhrlich behandelt werden Nonprint-Medien, Online-Publikationen, Mikroformen, Bildmedien u.a.m. Das Hand- und Lehrbuch richtet sich an Praktiker in Informationseinrichtungen und Mediensammlungen wie Bibliotheken oder Medienarchiven, die ihre Kenntnisse aktualisieren und in einen systematischen Zusammenhang bringen mochten, vor allem an Studierende der Universitaten und Fachhochschulen in bibliotheks- und medienbezogenen Fachern.