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As of 10/6/2020: 8 tapes digitized; 0 captioned; 0 uploaded; %0.5 complete!*
"Uncovering CUNY TV's Audiovisual Heritage" aims to digitize, preserve, caption, and make accessible nearly 1300 videotape recordings from CUNY TV's 35 year history.
Funding for project was awarded by the Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Enabling New Scholarship through Increasing Access to Unique Materials, a national grant competition administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The initial proposal can be accessed as an appendix.
The City University of New York (CUNY) is the largest university network in the country with over two dozen schools in every one of New York City's five boroughs. The chart below lists the five the schools partnering with this project, and CUNY TV collections they manage. Each collection is comprised of a series that aired on public television between the 1980s and early 2000, but only available on an obsolete videotape(or audiotape) format. Collectively, the content tells the story of New York City as it grapples with public policy and social justice in a delicate era just before, and just after, 9/11. Clicking through each institution will reveal a one-page description of the collections in their care.
| Institution | CUNY TV Program | Formats | # of Tapes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baruch College | Baruch College Specials | U-matic, Betacam SP, DVCam | 200 |
| Baruch College | City Club | U-matic, Betacam SP, DVCam | 240 |
| John Jay College | Criminal Justice CloseUp | U-matic, Betacam SP, VHS | 180 |
| Centro de Estudios Puertoriqueños at Hunter College | HoMoVisiones | VHS | 283 |
| Centro de Estudios Puertoriqueños at Hunter College | Politics con Sabor | MiniDV | 108 |
| Centro de Estudios Puertoriqueños at Hunter College | Centro Records | VHS | 63 |
| College of Staten Island | Cinema Then, Cinema Now | U-matic, Betacam SP | 180 |
| Bronx Community College | Hall of Fame for Great Americans | VHS, 1/4" audio magnetic tape | 30 |
| Total | 1284 |
The Gantt chart below visualizes the 18 month timeline (9/1/2020 - 2/28/2022). Collections will be completed self-contained cycles comprised of such tasks as cataloging, digitization, ingest, captioning, and public access. The length of time estimated is informed by the number of tapes in the collection. Outreach efforts will officially begin February 2021 after the first cycle is complete and will be engaged on a weekly basis via social media, press releases, newsletters, listervs, blog posts, and person-to-person contact. The timeline also indicates semesters where a student intern will assist the efforts.
Documentation on captioning, digitization, access, and outreach will be posted here as they are available.
CUNY TV
Kelly Haydon, Collections Coordinator, Uncovering CUNY TV'S Audiovisual Heritage
David Rice, Director of Archives
Catriona Schlosser, Archivist
Collection Managers
Cynthia Tobar, Assistant Professor/Head of Archives, Bronx Community College
Lindsay Wittwer, Digital Archivist, Centro de Estudios Puertoriqueños at Hunter College
Jerry Carlson, Host of _Cinema Then, Cinema Now_ and
Ellen Belcher, Associate Professor and Special Collections Librarian, John Jay College
CLIR 2020 Proposal
Rights, Ethics, and Reuse Statement
- When a cassette tapes turns into a lightning bolt, 32 tapes have been digitized, captioned, ingested, and made accessible!