Audio/Visual Collection - Record Group 59

Collection Description

Recordings, 1957-2004 [1978-2004 (bulk)]. 18 cubic ft.

The Audio/Visual collection consists of audio and video recordings taped, performed and created by the students, staff, and faculty at Stony Brook University. The collection was acquired from multiple campus departments and combined into one all encompassing collection; departments represented include University Hospital Media Relations, SBU-TV, Educational Technologies, and The Poetry Center. Unrestricted access for research; copyright restrictions on certain recorded materials.

Finding aid and processing by F. Jason Torre, assisted by Elissa Daub, 2005; edited by Kristen J. Nyitray, June 2007.

Introduction

The Audio/Visual collection (RG 59) is comprised of multiple accessions of recorded materials. The campus departments that are represented within this record group include SBU-TV, Educational Technologies, University Hospital, Office of the President, Office of the Provost, University Libraries, and The Poetry Center. These recordings document significant campus events and daily operations. Items that have been acquired from individual donors are owned by University.

In citing the collection, please credit: Title of the recording, University Archives, Stony Brook University Libraries. Materials within this collection may be located with the use of the collection's finding aid, available in hardcopy and online through the University's Libraries' web page.

Scope and Content Note

Record Group 59 consists of two sub-groups that are divided by media type.

Sub-group I is comprised of video recordings and represents the majority of taped events captured by campus departments. The sub-group is organized by original order and provenance where applicable and has been created in other areas to assist researchers.

Sub-group II, although smaller, is very comprehensive and consists of audio recordings of campus events. Restricted access.

Series Description

Sub-group I: Video recordings, 1961-present, 20 cubic feet. This sub-group is comprised of multiple, established series. Each series represents a major event, lecture series or daily happening pertaining to the university. Certain restrictions apply to videos.

This container listing is in a searchable PDF format. Access to the complete listing is available here: University Video Collection.

Sub-group II: Audio recordings, 1968-1978, 4 cubic feet. This sub-group consists of reel-to-reel and audio cassette recordings of official and unofficial university functions. Restricted access.

Audiotapes from the Poetry Festival sponsored by the Department of English in 1968

Reel-to-reel and cassette audiotapes of the Economic Development Conference held at the End of the Bridge in the Stony Brook Union, April 4, 1978

Stony Brook Tax Institute (1 reel-to-reel, 3 cassettes), no date

Stony Brook Foundation dinner November 1, 1977 (1 reel-to-reel)

Ray Heatherton Breakfast Club (Dr. Terence Netter, Diane Diot), February 21, 1980 (1 cassette)

WUSB Village Common program (John S. Toll and Mr. Gunnigle), March 28, 1978

Seventy-one audio tape recordings made during the Poetry Conferences sponsored by the Department of English in 1968 (unpublished finding aid in repository)