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Video recordings

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Anniversary and Memorial Occasions records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-13.3.3
Scope and Contents

The collection includes commemorative programs, resolutions, reports, and addresses pertaining to various events in Michigan State University's history, from the 1899 recognition of Ten Years of Progress to the 1966 dedication of MSU's self-service postal station. Includes records of the Emancipation Proclamation Centennial.

Dates: 1899 - 1966
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-3.16
Scope and Contents The records consist of policies on academic standings and general education requirements, “Evaluation of the 1987 Foreign Teaching Assistant Orientation Program”, preliminary summary of the 1993 Freshman survey, report of the Committee of Undergraduate Education from 1967, “Minority Undergraduate Recruitment and Retention Programs” from 1989, report about the first year student experience, programs from the University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum, and reports from the Working Group...
Dates: 1967 - 2017; Majority of material found within 1982 - 2017
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Broadcasting Services records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-3.3.5
Scope and Contents This collection consists of materials from Broadcasting Services, WKAR-TV, WMSB, and WKAR AM/FM. Included are programming guides, meeting minutes, Federal Communications Commission channel hearings, and photographic materials. The Electronic Resources include digitized University Distinguished Professor videos from 2005 and 2007; a video of oral history interviews titled "Out of the Fields"; audio recordings of interviews of survivors and veterans of World War II living in...
Dates: 1920 - 2008
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

College of Communication Arts and Sciences records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-15.8
Scope and Contents The records from the College of Communication Arts and Sciences include research reports about various forms of communication in rural South America, Africa, and Asia. There are also materials from the Communication Studies Committee (1953-1955), radio and television conferences (1946-1956), and the A.I.D. Diffusion Project (1964-1966). Other materials include educational television brochures and pamphlets, WKAR dedication program, and the proposal for a study on operational conditions on...
Dates: 1946 - 2015
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Commencement records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-13.1
Scope and Contents

This collection contains speeches, instructions, invitations, exercises, correspondence, minutes, and duplicate programs.

Dates: 1862 - 2015; Majority of material found within 1862 - 1981
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Harris Olson CUMREC records

 Collection
Identifier: UA-28.3
Scope and Contents

CUMREC records consists of historical displays for 1956-1971, financial information, a flag, slides, pins and badges, newsletters, policies, and members.

The electronic resource consists of a documentary style video called "The Celebration of an Idea, the Realization of a Dream" commemorating the 50th anniversary of CUMREC. The video gives a historical account of administrative computing, Frank Martin, and past conferences.

Dates: 1956 - 1999
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Instructional and Public Television records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-3.3.5.1
Scope and Contents

The Instructional and Public Television records consist of materials related to WMSB-TV and WKAR-TV including press releases, policy, brochures, reports, and program information. The collection also includes audio-visual materials such as photographs, film and video. These AV materials include Commencements and State of the University events.

Dates: 1951 - 2021
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Jam Handy Organization records

 Collection
Identifier: c-00666
Scope and Content The collection consists of a digitized film (VHS format) of "Postmark: East Lansing", a 1952 production outlining the on-campus educational facilities of Michigan State University. The film was produced by the Jam Handy Organization of Detroit, Michigan, with camera operator George Leontough, assistant Jack Tipping, MSU college news editor Alvie L. Smith serving as coordinator, and starring students Barbara Tanner Bailey '49 and James W. Hale '51. The film begins with an introduction from...
Dates: 1951 - 1952
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Michigan Government Television (MGTV) collection

 Collection
Identifier: 00252
Scope and Content The collection consists of daily programming schedules and videorecordings received from Michigan Government Television (MGTV) during its operation. Coverage includes the televised broadcasts of proceedings of the House of Representatives, the Senate, oral arguments at the Supreme Court, speakers at the Economic Club of Detroit, commencement speakers at universities in the state, press conferences of state officials, committee and commission meetings of many state departments, live phone-in...
Dates: 1996 - 2013
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Public Relations records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-8.1
Scope and Contents The Public Relations office records consist of subject files relating to campus, photographs, video recordings, annual reports, negatives and electronic resources. Topics of the subject files concern motion pictures, the MSU Centennial, magazine articles, conferences and workshops and many others. The photographs in the collection include images of conferences and workshops on campus, people, buildings, campus life, commencement, student activities and organizations, student awards,...
Dates: 1943 - 2004
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections