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Collection
Scope: Action for Children's Television, a national grassroots organization,
was founded by Peggy Charren in Newtonville, Massachusetts in 1968.
ACT aimed to ensure quality and diversity in television programming
for children and adolescents, and to eliminate commercial abuses directed
at children. In addition to the 1400 videotapes, the collection comprises
over 1,000 linear feet of archival materials, including the complete
office records of the organization. The collection consists of videotapes
of children's television programs, shows submitted for ACT's annual
awards, commercials and public service announcements. Subjects include:
animation, children's literature, commercials, health issues, violence
in tv programs, children's news programming, and nutrition; date span
is approximately 1970s-1990s.
Access:
Collection is open to the public by appointment, M-F, 9am-5pm. On-site
use only.
Contact:
Marylene Altieri,
Special Collection, Gutman Library; 617-496-3108;
Collection
Scope: the ART collects videos of its productions. They are used for
the reconstruction of plays produced at the ART. There are approximately
200 VHS tapes.
Access:
Videos do not circulate, but 5 viewing facilities are available. Viewing
is by appointment.
Contact:
Lynn Kasper, 617-495-2668; lkasper@fas.harvard.edu.
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Biological
Anthropology
Collection
Scope: the department has approximately 100 VHS videos on the subjects
of primate behavior, animal behavior, human evolution, and behavioral
biology. The collection began in 1990 as a way to make teaching films
easily accessible.
Access:
the collection circulates to Anthropology department faculty only.
A list of titles is available in the department.
Contact:
Wren Fournier, 617-496-1194.
Collection
Scope: the Derek Bok Center has 25 videos on teaching vignettes, teaching
methods, and from Bok Center Teaching Orientation programs.The Derek
Bok Center, formerly the Danforth Center, is a part of the Faculty
of Arts and Sciences, and was created in 1979. The center provides
a variety of services for those individuals teaching at Harvard who
wish to improve their teaching skills.
Access:
the collection is available to all Harvard affiliates, and can also
be viewed by a maximum of 2 people at a time on M-F, 9am-5pm.
Contact:
Jane Phipps, 617-495-4869;
jphipps@fas.harvard.edu
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Collection
Scope: Cabot's video collection of over 300 videos began in the late
1970's when the Science Center began a bimonthly program of science
lectures by outstanding Harvard scientists. Videotapes of some science
courses are also available. Some other commercial tapes have been
purchased for science courses. About 15 training views (Windows, Word,
etc) were added recently.
Access:
8 viewing facilities seating 4 - 8 earch are available. Its hours
are the same as the library's. The commercial videos do circulate.
The collection is listed in HOLLIS.
Contact:
Allen Bourque, 617-495-5354; bourque@fas.harvard.edu
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Collection
Scope: The Teaching Resource Center was founded in 1976 to offer support
to K-12 teachers of Russia and Russian Studies. There are 66 VHS videos
in the collection covering subjects such as art, music, environment,
nature, politics, history, and selected Russian feature films.
Access:
the collection is open to all Harvard affiliates and local high school
teachers. Videos circulate for two weeks.
Contact:
Ellen Gruber, 617-495-8095.
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Farnsworth
Reading Room/Woodberry Poetry Room, Lamont Library
Collection
Scope: approximately 196 VHS videos, of which 157 are poetry related
and 39 are movies. There is also a collection of 142 videodiscs of
movie classics or movies based on works of literature. The collection
began in 1985, when in addition to audio recordings, the Poetry Room
began to record some of its events. The Farnsworth movie collection
was made possible with the assistance from the Harvard Film Archive
and the Harvard Film Studies Department in the 1990's.
Access:
a video unit is available for individual viewing as well as a large,
portable unit for group viewing (M-F, 9am-10pm; Sunday, Noon - 10pm).
Faculty may borrow videos and discs for classroom use. Titles are
listed in HOLLIS
Contact:
Stratis Haviaras, 617-495-2454; haviaras@fas.harvard.edu
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Collection
Scope: the department has approximately 100 VHS videos on the study
of the German language and vintage German movies.
Access:
a viewing facility is available for 10 people, but videos may be borrowed
by Harvard affiliates. A list of titles is available in the department.
Contact:
Ingeborg Reichenbach, 617-495-2339.
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Collection
Scope: with more than 50 videos (vhs, beta, European), this collection
of general management topics is for senior and middle level managers.
The collection is international with videos in English, Japanese,
Portuguese, and German.
Access:
A viewing facility is available for internal staff only. The collection
is available to non-HBS affiliates only by special request. Fees are
determined on a case-by-case basis.
Contact:
Pam Russell, 617-496-8411; prussell@hbsp.harvard.edu
Collection
Scope: an international film collection and document film collection
that includes1100 16mm fims and 2200 VHS videos.
Access:
A viewing facility is available. See the Archives' home page for more
information.
Contact:
617-495-4700.
Collection
Scope: The collection began in the 1960's with a film rented to use
in a lecture course. Since that time film has been added by faculty
in response to their teaching needs. There are approximatley 25 VHS
video and 16mm films available. Subject covered include: History of
Medicine, Life Sciences, and Physical Sciences.
Access:
A viewing facility is not available, but titles can be borrowed.
Contact:
Elizabeth Smith, 617-495-3565; easmith@fas.harvard.edu
Collection
Scope: 50 16mm films, 600 VHS videos, and 100 videodiscs are available
on theater subjects such as Shakespeare, filmed drama, dance, Harvard-Radcliffe
student performances, and performing arts, in general. The Theater
Collection was started in 1901, and is the oldest and one of the largest
collections of historical materials on the performing arts in the
country. It is a department of Houghton Library. Many of the videos
are listed in HOLLIS
Access:
The collection is non-circulating, but limited viewing facilities
are available (M-F, 9am-5pm).
Contact:
Annette Fern, 617-495-2445; afern@fas.harvard.edu
Collection
Scope: approximately 120 VHS videotapes; the videotapes are exclusively
on the 1980 Tianamen Square pro-democracy demonstrations in China.
The videotape collection is part of the Tianamen Archive, established
in 1989, which also contains handbills, petitions, photographs, eyewitness
reports, and pamphlets distributed by the demonstrators and the government.
Access:
a viewing facility for one person is available by appoitment. The
collection does not circulate.
Contact:
Chia-yaung Hu, Assistant Librarian for the Chinese Collections; 617-495-3394;
hu@fas.harvard.edu
Collection
Scope: the Archives has approximately 600 titles in 16mm, 35mm, and
VHS format mostly. These materials are included in larger collections
of historical and official records that document the history and activities
of Harvard and the Harvard community. Records that are captured in
motion picture format began entering the Archives in the 1920's.
Access:
the collection is non-circulating. Viewing of the VHS videos is possible
on site, but an appointment must be made in advance.
Contact:
Kate Bowers, 617-495-2461; kate_bowers@harvard.edu
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Kennedy
School, Media Services
Collection
Scope: a collection of over 1500 videos of the Kennedy School Forums
and other events at the Kennedy School of Government. Taping began
in 1978 and approximately 70 videos are produced a year.
Access:
the videos are available only to Institute of Politics (IOP) affiliates.
Contact:
Mary M. Trainor, mary_trainor@harvard.edu
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Collection
Scope: approximately 150 VHS videos, including both feature films
and films in support of undergraduate course reserves. The collection
is particularly strong in German feature films (silent and sound),
1930/40's feature films from Hollywood, and some Harvardiana. Lamont
began to collect videos in ernest in 1994 as requested by professors
in support of undergraduate courses. Several large CORE classes focus
on films in relation to literature, philosophy, and history.
Access:
all videos are listed in HOLLIS
and on the Lamont
Library home page. All videos can be borrowed by Harvard affiliates
for 7 days.
Contact:
Kathy Anderson, 617-495-4159; kanders@fas.harvard.edu
Collection
Scope: approximately 700 VHS videos, European videos, videodiscs,
and CD-ROMs. The strength of the collection is language learning,
but there are also some cultural films.
Access:
several viewing facilities are available. Hours are M-Th, 8am-10pm;
Fri, 8am-5pm; Sat, 10am-2pm; Sun, 2pm-10pm. The collection is non-circulating.
Contact:
Connie Christo, 617-495-9448.
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Collection
Scope: 650 - 700 VHS videotapes and videodiscs on music, opera, ballet,
and world music. The collection grows by approximately 100 - 150 titles
per year.
Access:
viewing facilities are available whenever the library is open. Titles
do not circulate. Titles are listed in HOLLIS.
Contact:
Robert J. Dennis, 617-495-2795; robert_dennis@harvard.edu
Collection
Scope: a collection of over 700 VHS videotapes and videodiscs that
began with the acquisition of the BBC Shakespeare Plays in 1982. The
bequest of the Stanton Collection in 1992 provided impetus for collecting
feature film and documentary video titles. Many titles continue to
be added through orders for course reserves.
Access:
the collection circulates to all Harvard affiliates and is listed
in HOLLIS.
A viewing facility is available whenever the library is open.
Contact:
Martin Schreiner; 617-495-8730; schrein@fas.harvard.edu
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| N |
Collection
Scope: The collection is quite small and is determined by need. There
are approximately 20 technical VHS videos in the areas of Primatology
and Veterinary Laboratory Medicine. The Center has access to a complete
collection of "primate" audiovisuals through the Wisconsin Regional
Primate Center.
Access:
There is a viewing facility that holds 40 people. It is available
7 days/24 hours a day to Harvard affiliates only.
Contact:
Sydney Ann Fingold, 508-624-8028; sfingold@warren.med.harvard.edu
Collection
Scope: approximately a few hundred tapes that started during Harvard
University's 350th birthday celebration. The collection includes stock
photography and Harvard events.
Access:
the collection does not usually circulate. A 15% surcharge is added
to outside duplication requests.
Contact:
Joe Wrinn, 617-495-1585; joe_wrinn@harvard.edu
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Collection
Scope: approximately 150 titles (16mm, VHS, Beta, European) of the
Learning From Performers program, which began in 1975. Subjects covered
include jazz concerts, mastu classes, lectures and demonstrations,
workshops, and discussions with well-known musicians, dancers, and
artists. Recently, efforts have been made to catalog and prepare them
for long-term storage and availability for students and scholars (copies
now available at Hilles Library).
Access:
a viewing facility is available M - F, 9am - 5pm. Some titles are
listed in HOLLIS.
Contact:
Tom Lee, lee@radmail.harvard.edu;
Cathy McCormick, cmccormick@radmail.harvard.edu;
617-495-8676.
Collection
Scope: approximately 250 VHS videos on employer information, job-hunting
skills, graduate and professional school information.
Access:
available only to students and alumni of the College and the Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences. A viewing facility is available for 2
simultaneous users (M-F, 9am-5pm; Wed, 9am-8pm). Individuals should
contact OCS for holdings information.
Contact:
Susan Vacca, 617-495-2595; smvacca@fas.harvard.edu
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Collection
Scope: a collection of 135 16mm and 62 35mm films and 48 VHS videos,
started in the 1950's as a teaching aid. The strength of the
collection is North and Central American anthropology and archaeology.
Access:
a facility for up to 60 people is open whenever the museum is open.
Materials may be borrowed by Anthropology teaching staff only. A listing
of titles is available.
Contact:
Martha Labell, 617-495-3329 or Barbara Isaac, isaac@fas.harvard.edu
Collection
Scope: The collection was brought together in the early 1990's. Tapes
had been distributed in various sections of the department before
then, The collection consists primarily of selected graduate course
lectures and special lectures at the Department of Physics. The collection
numbers around 180 VHS videos and covers theorectical and experimental
physics.
Access:
Titles are listed in HOLLIS.
A viewing facility is available M-F, 9am-5pm. Videos do circulate.
Contact:
Michael Leach, 617-495-2878; leach@physics.harvard.edu
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Collection
Scope: 28 16mm films and 39 VHS videos on Radcliffe symposia, events,
lectures, students, alumnae. This is a passive collection that began
in 1979.
Access:
a viewing facility for 40 people is available, M - F, 9am - 5pm; by
appointment.
Contact:
Jane Knowles, 617-495-8662; jane_knowles@radcliffe.edu
Collection
Scope: a collection of 20 VHS videotapes on Japan and a few classic
films. Generally used by Japanese studies classes.
Access:
a viewing facility for 20 is available by appointment to Harvard affiliates
only.
Contact:
Galen Amstutz, 617-496-3314; gamstutz@fas.harvard.edu
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Collection
Scope for Manuscript Videos and Films: approximately 1250 videos and
films in various formats on the history of women, women's studies,
feminism, health and reproductive issues, domestic violence, family
life, women in politics, social reform, and cookery. A particular
strength of the collection are 1980's televised talk shows and interviews
concerning women. Most films and videotapes have been donated as part
of manuscript collections. The bulk of the films and videos were produced
in the last 20 years.
Access:
the collection is open to all Harvard affiliates and researches, with
some restrictions, but is non-circulating. Videotapes and a small
number of films that have been transferred to videotape can be borrowed
for research use (witih some restrictions). Rental fees are charged.
A viewing facility for 40 is available, but groups must make appointments.
(M-F, 9am-5pm). Some titles are listed in HOLLIS.
A $50.00 refundable deposit per video, plus part of the charge for
making a viewable copy is charged.
Contact:
Anne Englehart, 617-495-8647.
Collection
Scope for Published Videos: the library received a grant to purchase
published videotapes, which now number over 70 titles. The subjects
include women's studies, women's history, and cookery.
Access:
the collection is open to all Harvard affiliates and researchers.
A viewing facility for 40 is available, but groups must make appointments.
(M-F, 9am-5pm; Wednesday until 8:00pm when classes are in session).
Titles are listed in HOLLIS.
with some restrictions, but is non-circulating.
Contact:
Wendy Thomas, 617-495-8549;
wendy@radcliffe.edu
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Collection
Scope: Tozzer holds about 320 VHS videos that cover anthropological
and archaeological subjects such world music and dance, American Indian
oral histories, and Smithsonian studies. Tozzer also houses about
25 videos on anthropology and archaeology owned by the Peabody Museum.
Access:
A viewing facility for three is available whenever the library is
open. The videos do circulate.
Contact:
Gene De Vita, 617-495-2253; devita@fas.harvard.edu
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Woodberry
Poetry/Farnsworth Reading Room
Collection
Scope: approximately 196 VHS videos, of which 157 are poetry related
and 39 are movies. There is also a collection of 142 videodiscs of
movie classics or movies based on works of literature. The collection
began in 1985, when in addition to audio recordings, the Poetry Room
began to record some of its events. The Farnsworth movie collection
was made possible with the assistance of the Harvard Film Archive
and the Harvard Film Studies Department in the 1990's. Access: a video
unit is available for individual viewing as well as a large, portable
unit for group viewing (M-F, 9am-10pm, Sunday, noon-10pm). Faculty
may borrow videos and discs for classroom use. Titles are listed in
HOLLIS
Contact:
Stratis Haviaras, 617-495-2454; haviaras@fas.harvard.edu
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