Collection number: UA 3/4/7 [Offsite
Storage]
Size: 11 boxes
(11 cu.ft.)
About the Media Services Center
The UNH Audio Visual Center was organized in the summer of 1946 when the film libraries previously operated by the UNH and State Department of Education were combined. In 1970, Photo Service was merged with the Audio Visual Center as a new Department of Media Service in Dimond Library.
Service units within the department included Photo Service (including graphics and cinematography), Campus Service (including equipment distribution and technical services). The Film Library (including acquisition and cataloging services), and Administration (including planning and consulting services). Publications included film catalogs, quarterly newsletters and occasional papers on a variety of subjects. The department was closed in 2014.
About the Media Services Files
This collection consists of projects, scripts (including topics like women's history and Franco-Americans in New Hampshire), committee files, correspondence, releases, annual reports of the media center, and publications.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
This collection is open.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the University of New Hampshire.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], [Folder number], [Box number], Media Services Files, 1960-1987, UA 3/4/7, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, NH, USA.
Acquisitions Information
Transferred to the University Archives, 2014
Collection Arrangement
Collection is in origional order as received and has been left in a single series.
Collection Contents
Series 1: Media Services Center Files, , 1946-1991
(11 boxes (11 cubic feet))| Box 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1960-1979 | Projects and Scripts
Folders include information about various film courses, development of buildings such as the physical plant and Parson's Hall, and films/projects entitled "The Meaning of Perception," "A Part of the Main," "Medical Information Systems," and others. | |
| Box 2 | ||
| 1980-1984 | Projects and Scripts
Mostly scripts. History of Women at UNH, White Mountains, Situational Management, Radio Isotope Safety, Piscataqua River Basin, The New Hampshire Hospital, NEw Hampshire History Resource Guide, New Hampshire Cultural Agencies, Mt. Washington Observatory, International Perspectives, Enviornments for Experiential Learning, Handicapped Funding, Fowls and Violations, Claremont, RMC Communication, Colonial Kitchen, Alumni videotape, World Within A World (a film about the Amoskeag Mills), and others. | |
| Box 3 | ||
| 1982-1984 | Scripts, Credits, Releases
Materials from a proposed Ethnic Studies Program (mostly about Franco-Americans/Frenco-New Hampshire residents), as well as releases, credits, evaluations, and the like for various films. Contains several folders of negatives taken by photographer Gary Sampson of the French New Hampshire community, and a book entitled "Emigration: A Franco-American Experience". | |
| Box 4 | ||
| 1979-1985 | Grants and Film Projects
Materials on Lotte Jacobi (a photographer), Louis Wager, NH Humanities, NH Charitable Fund, and Library Perspectives grants (among others), and projects entitled "Roots and Branches" and "Power for the People." | |
| Box 5 | ||
| 1968-1985 | Needs Assesments
Folders on the Spaulding Youth Center (Tilton, N.H.), New England Center, York High School, Whittimore School of Business, Farmington High School summer institute, and more. | |
| Box 6 | ||
| 1969-1989 | Correspondence
Chronological by year. | |
| Box 7 | ||
| 1980-1988 | System Media Council Committee Files
Chronological by year. | |
| Box 8 | ||
| 1960-1987 | Office Files
Film inventory, films produced at UNH, task force on educational television, NH Commission ont he Arts, Governor's Commission on Crime and Juvenile Delinquency, heath and safety of photographic chemicals, and more. | |
| Box 9 | ||
| 1946-1985 | Annual Reports
Mostly towards the latter end of this date range. | |
| Box 10 | ||
| 1966-1987 | Annual Reports
Predominantly 1970s. | |
| Box 11 | ||
| 1961-1991 | Publications
Including "Audio-Visual Center Newsletter," "List of Instructional Films," and various promotional booklets for the media center. | |
