>> Hi everyone.
I'm Colina [phonetic].
I work with the learning and innovation
office at The Library Congress.
Welcome to today's episode Online Office
Hours from The Library of Congress.
Today we'll be focusing on the American
Archives Public Broadcasting or AAPB.
We're really glad that you can
join us live or by recording.
If this is your first time joining
us welcome and it's not welcome back.
These Office Hours are meant to be short.
An informal session.
There's going to be a 20-minute presentation
and the sessions are being recorded.
You'll have the opportunity to talk to
each other and our presenters via the chat.
So, I wanted to just [inaudible] with the chat.
[inaudible] if you could go
to the next slide, please.
And for all of you out there if you just
tell us your name, where you're joining us
from and what and who [inaudible].
Just type that into the chat box so we can see.
And as I mentioned today's episode is focused
on the American Archives on Public Broadcasting.
We're joined by Ryn Marchese who is the
engagement and youth manager for AAPB,
and she's based at WGBH in Boston.
We're also joined by Alan Gevinson who is The
Library of Congress budget director for AAPB.
You'll also hear a little bit later from the
library's teacher in resident Jen Reidel.
I just want you to know that if
you have any questions at any point
or comments please post them in the chat box.
We'll also be posting links there as our
presenters go through their presentation.
And either I or any of my colleagues
[inaudible] will answer questions.
So, now I'm going to pass
things over to our presenters.
>> Thanks, Colina [phonetic].
Can everyone hear me?
>> Yep.
>> Okay, great.
Well, welcome everyone to today's exploration
of America's public radio and television legacy.
As Colina [phonetic] mentioned
my name Ryn Marchese.
I am the AAPB engagement, news manager.
I'm responsible for increasing public awareness
and facilitating use of archival content
for various audiences including
educators like yourselves.
And joining me in this presentation is
the AAPB project director at The Library
of Congress Alan Gevinson
and I will pass it to him
to do a personal introduction
and introduction about AAPB.
>> Thanks very much Ryn and
welcome every, everyone.
We're very happy to talk to
you today about our project.
We think it's exciting and we
hope you'll tell people about it.
So, to start, The American Archive of
Public Broadcasting is a collaboration
between The Library of Congress and WGBH
in Boston to coordinate a national effort
to digitally preserve significant public
radio and public television programs
from the past 70 plus years for
present and future generations
to enjoy before the original
material degrades and is lost forever.
At Americanarchive.org we
provide a centralized web portal
for streaming access to more than 50,000 items.
In today's presentation, Ryn and I
will give you an introduction to some
of the great educational
content in the collections,
tips on how to maximize your search efforts,
and examples of the educational value
that public media can add to curricula.
So, back to you Ryn.
>> Okay. Thanks, Alan.
So, again like Colina [phonetic]
said if you have any questions
or comments during the webinar please
feel free to put them in the chat box.
And if you have used AAPB in the
classroom we would love to hear about it.
So, let us know in the chat.
So, before we go into a little bit more about
APPB submission, I'd like to give some context
to the materials that The American Archive
of Public Broadcasting is preserving.
And why it's important.
As you can see in this example magnetic
media tape is at risk of deterioration.
In 2012 The Library of Congress recognized the
immense cultural value of public broadcasting
as a source for [inaudible] historic
record and stated that because
of the nation's audio collections and the
way that they are stored and the conditions
that are not helpful for preserving
it, these materials are deteriorating.
And the - we have about 15 to 20 years before
we aren't able to preserve them anymore.
And so, that statement came out in 2012.
As you know it's 2020.
And 2032 is the prime - would be
the prime time of when to be fearful
of these materials deteriorating.
But because a lot of these materials aren't kept
in climate-controlled environments
they're deteriorating faster.
So, it's a priority for AAPB to work with
organizations that have collections like this.
And to help guide them through
best preservation practices.
The AAPB then is a digital-only
library meaning preservation copies
of digitized materials can be seen online
and are preserved at The Library of Congress.
So, we are at a race against
time to preserve public media.
And more generally the cultural and historic
record - records on these magnetic tapes.
So, jumping back to our mission, the - with
the passing of The Public Broadcasting Act
of 1967 the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
was tasked with creating a public media archive.
But it wouldn't be until 2010
that technology would be able
to meet the needs of this tremendous resource.
And CPB funded an initial inventory project
where 120 stations across the US went
through their closets and storage
units to create a rough inventory
of all the tapes held in their possession.
This project resulted in 2.5 million
records of items held at these stations.
And subsequently in 2012 CPB
funded a major digitization project
where 68,000 items were digitized.
CPB need to find a permanent home to preserve
the collection and make it available.
So, in 2013 The Library of Congress and WGBH
were awarded co-stewardship of the initiative.
The Library of Congresses Packard
Campus for Audio Visual Conservation
in Culpepper Virginia served as
the preservation arm of the AAPB
where the digitized collection
is preserved for posterity.
And WGBH's role on the initiative
is access and outreach.
This includes maintaining the website
for public access to the collection.
And you may be familiar with WGBH
located in Boston with their productions
of Antiques Roadshow and
documentaries by American Experience,
Masterpiece Theater programs,
Nova and Frontline.
Together we develop policies and
plans for growing the archive
and sustaining it into the future.
As Alan mentioned earlier the AAPB has
over 112,000 digitized historic programs
and original materials from stations and
organizations in almost all of the 50 states.
And over 53,000 programs are streaming
in what we call the online
reading room which is our website.
>> So, as mentioned, collections
in the AAPB have been contributed
by over 120 organizations across the nation.
These collections offer retrospective
programs that add context
and historical perspective
to the passage of time.
And its amaze - it's an amazing
audiovisual resource
for studying our 20th and 21st Century history.
With locally produced content the
geographical breadth of the collection can help
to uncover ways that national and global
issues played out on the local scene.
And the long chronological reach
of the collection ranges from
the 1940s through to 2018.
And can help to document change over time.
Programs in the collection include single
episodes, series, documentaries, news reports,
live coverage, and unedited interviews.
For example.
Black Side Inc.
contributed raw interviews
form The American Experience.
Ah, sorry.
Eyes On The Prize documentary.
And this collection of interviews includes
a mesmerizing interview with Rosa Parks.
And because it is unedited, we
the public can hear the producer
in the background asking questions and
directing Mrs. Parks to tell her story
with the question in her narrative.
So, that it is when - when it is cut for film,
she gets the original question in her story.
What a great resource for teaching student's
media literacy, journalism, or history.
And it's all available at your fingertips.
Discussions within the collection range
topics as far back as the 18th Century
with Rocky Mounty PBS' America Past Series which
talks about the founding of the United States.
And to programming made for, by,
and about diverse communities
that are not often represented in media
including programming in native languages,
as well Creole, French, Spanish,
and sign language.
As for notable coverage of live events,
AAPB has the most near complete collection
of the Watergate Hearings
available for streaming online.
In addition to specific events, local, and
national programming has been on the frontlines
of decades-long crises such as aids,
environmental activism, and civil rights.
If you are interested in exploring more of
these topics and how they then presented
on public media, I recommend visiting AAPB's
curated exhibits which we'll get to in a second.
>> So, as I'm bringing the
website now would be a good time
to write any questions you have in the chat box.
Colina's [phonetic] moderating
the chat and we'll get
to your questions after the presentation.
But in case you forget your questions later and
would like to have them recorded that would -
it would - this would be a
good time to put them there.
>> Okay. So, during the demo, I'm going to go
through easy access points
that we have on the website.
Tips for making the most of your search.
And how to share AAPB content
in curriculum or online.
You can visit the AAPB anywhere in the United
States by visiting Americanachives.org.
And you'll notice on the
homepage that we've made it easy
for audiences to jump into the collection.
Each banner offers a different
approach to searching the collection.
So, I will go through them individually.
The first banner includes the general search
bar, a rotating carousel of suggested items,
and updates from the American Archive
blog which I'd like to suggest subscribing
to our newsletter which is in now sign up here.
And you can subscribe to our blog because
I often [inaudible] content around topics
that are popular today such as the
new Mrs. America series which is
about the Equal Rights Amendment.
And it's opponent Phyllis Schlafly.
There are multiple interviews and speeches
and debates in the archives with Mrs. Schlafly
as well as ERA proponents such as Gloria
Steinem, Shirley Chisholm, and Betty Friedan.
So, these resources are at your fingertips
through newsletters and through our blog.
So, let's get started with doing an example.
When you see the search part, it's helpful
to know that the search populates on keywords
and dates provided by the
contributing organizations.
As you saw earlier in the presentation
some programs were saved from deterioration
with nothing more than a label on the canister.
So, to help fill in the gaps the AAPB
is creating speech to text transcripts
which means they're not 100% perfect.
I think there about 90%.
So, just keeping that in mind
will help you refine your search.
So, if I'm looking for Rosa
Parks, I put Rosa Parks in quotes.
That way the computer searches
all of the content we have
for Rosa Parks in that specific order.
So, I get 180 examples.
So, if I were to just search Rosa Parks
just for comparison without the quotes.
All of the transcripts and descriptions
are searched for the words Rosa and Parks
and as you can see that means
I then get 332 items.
So, it's good - it's best if you're
looking concise names to use quotes.
And that will help narrow down your search.
These distinctions at the
top that I was pointing help
to tell you how you can access this content.
Or where this content is available.
So, available online is primarily
where you will be searching.
And this is all the content that we have
which has been digitized and put online.
All digitized are all of the
radio and television programs
that have been contributed and digitized.
But some of these programs may have third party
materials or performances which aren't allowed
to be streaming online due to copyright law.
So, this just indicates there
are more - there's more content
with Rosa Parks but is not available online.
In all records indicates any record
we have related to Rosa Parks.
So, as I mentioned, stations give us just
records of what's in their inventory and some
like Vermont Public Radio may have a program
with Rosa Parks, but it's not digitized yet.
This is helpful for scholars and educator
and researchers who are interested
in a one-stop-shop or one place
for searching this information
because the AAPB is one of
a kind in that aspect.
And we are also just trying to be that
one - a web portal of discoverability.
So, if we go back to available online.
It's easy to filter your results
over here in the left-hand column.
You can filter by.
>> Television programming
[inaudible] contributing organization
who I mentioned earlier contributed
the raw interviews [inaudible] here.
The difference between contributing and
producing organizations is exactly that.
Laxide [phonetic] may have produced it but
technically [inaudible] those interviews
to the University of Washington
who then became the contributor.
So, a distinction that is going to be helpful
for you just to have in the back of your mind
but will not make or break your search at all.
And lastly, dates.
You can search by exact date if you know 1969
was a very important year and you'd like to know
if anyone - where JFK was talking in 1969.
So, you could put a range 19 - January
1st, 1969 to December 31st, 1969.
Just a note.
Our search in some of the browsers
automatically puts in the date for today.
So, you'll have to just double-check
that to make sure it didn't
auto-populate with the date of today.
And then put back what you
wanted such as January 1st, 1969.
>> So, that's just the - a quick rundown
of how to best filter your search.
But if you do come upon an interview of say this
one with Rosa Parks from Eye From The Prize.
There're a few key features I
want to show on the record page.
I mentioned transcripts.
So, I'm going to usually it's hidden.
But if it is, the transcript here you can do the
plus sign which will show you the transcript.
And here you can search this [inaudible]
such as Civil Rights or bus or Montgomery.
And those words will be highlighted
in the interview.
And you can go to that exact spot
in the interview and play it.
Speaking of playing, you can buffer
10 seconds back or 10 seconds forward.
And if you do find a segment that you do want
to share with your class or in an assignment,
you just toggle the share button here.
And they're a few different options of sharing.
If you know exactly in the
transcript - or sorry.
The video that you want to
share you can go to that point.
Or if you listening to is and
there's a pause before the questions,
I can go back 10 seconds and
I know that's the beginning.
And let's just say that if this
interview goes on for seven minutes.
Here's that chunk.
Let the computer think for a second.
>> So, once that red - that is ready I can share
at the beginning of the interview if I wanted.
At the current time which is at the -
wherever you put the play head here.
So, it would share right here.
Or the specific segment as I just showed you.
This link will share this
seven-minute interview.
And as an example, Alan shared with me an
interview that he would like to share later
on in the show or the presentation.
And this is what it will look like.
It says, "This segment is of a longer program.
You can click here to see the longer program."
But your students would only
see 10 minutes or seven minutes
of whatever interview you would like to share.
So, that's a quick rundown of
what's on the record pages.
And you - from here you can also say, "Oh
I'd love to see more from the series."
You can click on Eyes On The Prize and
it will bring you back to all the videos
from those series so on and so forth.
>> So, continuing on with the
different banner on the home page
and how you can search the collection.
I'd like to go into special collections.
>> Special collections include
notable collections with a search bar
for just that specific collection.
So, if we go into raw interviews from 1964
which is produced by American Experience.
I can search this collection
just for specific topics related
to civil rights or freedom summer.
And it will only search these items.
But you have a collection summary,
background, featured items as well
as additional resources for you to explore.
>> Special collections include as I
said raw interviews from documentaries,
or they can be complete series
as In Black America is a series.
Or they could be collections that we've
put together like LGBT plus collection.
Or the newly launched America - Jewish
American Heritage Month collection which has
over 400 radio and television
programs ranging 1945 to 2017.
And you.
>> And these, these focus on
aspects of Jewish life in America
which was actually put together by Alan.
So, I'll pass the ball to Alan to speak
about a few more notable special
collections that he'd like to highlight.
>> Great. Thanks, Ryn.
I'm going to just mention three
special collections at this point.
The first is the National Educational
Television or NET collection.
NET was the precursor to PBS.
It operated between 1953 and 1972 as a
national producing and distribution network.
We've currently have nearly
750 programs available
for online streaming access in the collection.
And we continually add to it.
There were a total of between 8,000 and
10,000 programs produced by NET or produced
or distributed during that period.
In the '50s NET was dedicated primarily
to childhood and adult education.
But by the early 1960s, it had transitioned
to serving adult audiences with documentaries
and discussion shows that explored issues of
urgency and cultural programming dedicated
to the arts, humanities, and the sciences.
In 1972 the Journal American Libraries
described more than 100 of these programs
that were then available for rental.
And listed just what they covered.
So, topics such as civil rights, black power,
the war in Vietnam, child abuse, poverty,
planned communities, civil disorders, the
Berlin Crisis, the Cuban missile crisis,
student activism, the elderly, radicalism on the
left, radicalism on the right, the environment,
unions, privacy, entrepreneurs, airline safety,
truth in packaging, farming, homosexuality,
journalism, welfare, the Warren Court,
the UN, bias in television newscasting,
and the effects of television
on political campaigns.
So, you see this is really, really
a huge an valuable collection.
And it includes revealing documentaries in which
camera crews gained the trust of their subjects
who allowed them to film actions and
events spontaneously as they occurred.
So, it's hard to under -- emphasize
how important that collection is.
And I want to move onto another gem that
we have the PBS Newshour collection.
This includes nearly all programs that were
in that series from its beginning in 1975
as the Robert Neal Report to the resent day.
And we've got approximately
14,000 programs available
on streaming online in that collection.
The series originally was half an hour in
length, designed to serve as a supplement
to the daily network national news
programs by providing in-depth coverage
on one specific topic each night.
In 1983 it became the first national news
program to expend to one hour in length.
Time magazine called the series TV's
best discussion of public affairs.
And a Gallop poll found the news that were
the most believed American news program.
Co-founder Robert MacNeil
described the News Hour as a place
where the news is allowed to breathe.
Where we can comely, intelligently
look at what has happened,
what it means, and why it is important.
So, today the collection provides
primary source material of world leaders
and common folk expressing their views at length
on the most important issues of the day along
with reason balanced analysis by
experts in their own - in their fields.
Last year we received - we received files from
Backstory, which started as weekly public radio
as a weekly public radio series in 2008.
And became a podcast in 2017.
Hosted by four prominent US historians,
Backstory brings historical
perspective to current events.
Attempting as they say to reveal the connections
and disconnection between past and present.
Just last week I came across
a segment from a 1916 program.
We'll send you the citation for that
segment on the history of unemployment
that I'd like to suggest you listen to.
And the segment, in particular, it's about
10 minutes long focuses on a repatriation
and deportation program during the great
depression pertaining to Mexican Nationals
and Mexican American citizens of the US.
It's a policy of which many
American's today are unaware.
This is a just a great presentation
about something that really is
on a lot of people's minds right now.
The segment includes revealing interviews
from an oral history project conducted
in the early 1970s with people affected
by the 1930s repatriation
program in the Los Angeles area.
So, back to you Ryn.
>> Thanks, Alan.
>> That's a lot of wonderful stuff.
I am definitely always busy at AAPB
going down different rabbit holes.
And another banner on the website
for how to approach content
in our collection would be our curated exhibits.
>> The AAPB staff and guest curators select
recordings that focus on themes, topics,
and events of cultural and
historical significance.
And in the collections, curators
contextualize digitized primary
and secondary source materials.
Each curated set of selected
recordings present a diversity
of perspectives concerning the exhibits focus.
As a result, AAPB exhibits often
illuminate how public broadcasting stations
and producers have covered the
theme - the exhibit's theme.
And a few of our most popular
exhibits include the Watergate -
the Gavel to Gavel The Watergate
scandal on public television.
As well as, speaking and protesting in America.
And voices from the southern civil rights
movement, which was curated by Alan.
So, I'll go ahead pass the
mic back to Alan to talk
about this exhibit and some
forthcoming exhibits.
>> Thanks.
I'm sorry I.
>> It's all right.
>> I'm back.
Okay. So, yeah voices from the southern
civil rights movement is an exhibit
of radio programs from the 1960s.
It's a wonderful exhibit because
these are really - were really unheard
for 50 years before we put them up in 2015.
It's, it's important I think because
of the locals that these come from.
They're more than 25 different
locals throughout the south that the,
that the exhibit - that the programs document.
And many, many people both national figures
and unknown figures you could
hear their voices on the movement.
I particularly like to hear children involved
in the movement and what it meant to them.
What it to them to get, to get thrown
in jail, and why they were doing this.
Why they were doing unsafe
things to promote the movement.
So, explore that.
With regard to the importance of local
history and as Ryn has emphasized much
of our collection comes through us from
local stations all over the country.
We've got a lot of news programs a lot
of talk programs from local stations.
And, and with regard to this exhibit, the
civil rights historian Emily Crosby has written
about the importance of local accounts,
that they can't be overemphasized.
Local studies in her words laid a
foundation for reshaping movement history
for changing our understanding of many things.
And the same could be said
for the feminist movement.
For topics like immigration.
The criminal justice system.
And the changing political scene.
Let me just mention a couple of
exhibits that are in the works.
And so, keep your eye out on these.
We hope next week to launch our newest
exhibit it's called televising black politics
in the black power era.
Black Journal and Soul.
So, Black Journal and Soul were two public
affairs and cultural series from the late '60s
and early '70s that were produced
by, for, and about African Americans.
This will be the first time that
many of these programs have been seen
since they were made and broadcast.
And we're really, really excited about that.
So, look for that.
We hope by the end of next week to launch that.
Soon after that, we plan to launch
the first bilingual exhibit.
It's going to be called Latino
empowerment through public broadcasting.
And was curated by two interns from
the Hispanic Association of Colleges
and Universities Fellowship Program.
And we're really, really
excited about that also.
And lastly, I just wanted to call
your attention to an exhibit.
A lot of you I'm sure are teachers.
We have an exhibit called education
reporting on public television.
This one focuses on ways that public
television covered a variety of national
and local education issues
from the 1950s to the present.
And I invite you to explore that one.
Ryn, back to you.
>> Thanks, Alan.
All right.
So, I'll just warp up with a few more entry
points into the collection on our homepage
and then we'll go back to the
presentation and then to your questions.
So, as I mentioned we create speech to text
transcripts for all of the content in AAPB.
And if you have students that would like to help
us correct these transcripts, we have Fixit Plus
where they can simply click on an
interview and listen to the dialog.
And then go ahead and edit it as they listen.
And this is a great opportunity for students to
have an hour or so with historians and authors
and famous local and national figures.
So, that's an opportunity for them to give
back to the archives in an immediate way
because these transcripts then go online.
>> Additional browse options would
be you can click on suggested topics
that we have already highlighted here.
Or if you're looking for a specific region
of content you can click on the state
and see which organizations have contributed.
And from there you can search all their records.
>> And if you have a second, I
would highly recommend looking
at this every picture tells a story which is
a clip reel of what we have in the collection.
And it's quite a hoot with Julia Child there.
So.
>> Now that you all are versatile
AAPB search experts.
We'll go into a little bit
about the educational value.
And in addition to helping teach
on a variety social science topics,
Alan wanted to give a little
bit more of a discussion
about how this can help teach national topics
and how they played out on a local level.
You may have just covered that.
>> Yeah. Actually, I kind
of covered that before.
So, just because it's a really
- it covers the whole country.
>> Yeah.
>> So, you know the decline of the
rust belt and rise of the sunbelt.
You could see how that impacted different
areas of the country by doing searches.
It's, it's really, really valuable.
>> And then incorporating public broadcasting
into the classroom you can also help students
better understand past events and eras
which can demonstrate - can be
demonstrated public broadcasting.
And I'm going to pass the mic to Jen who is
The Library of Congresses teacher in residence
who on this last slide would like to
elaborate on the use of AAPB in the classroom.
>> Thanks, for having me.
I just want to add some teacher
lens to this phenomenal resource.
And for everyone listening live and
then will be listening to our recording,
I just want you to think about how rich this is.
Because this offers some trustworthy resources.
And it bypasses what can become the black
hole of YouTube when educators start looking
for videos to use in their classroom.
And for introducing kids to oral histories.
So, before I highlight a few things real
briefly that have really jumped out to me,
I want to remind our participants that The
Library of Congress, we have teachers guides
that help assist the teachers in guiding
students and evaluating in primary sources.
And we have a specific teacher's guide
helping with the evaluation of oral histories.
So, I think we're going to put
a link to that in the chat box.
So, make sure you take time to check that out.
One particular exhibition that stood out
to me because I live in the land of civics,
and US history and law was the speaking
and protesting in America exhibition.
And I've had the chance this year while
working in the library just to spend a lot
of time thinking about civil rights
and in particular just getting embedded
in Rosa Parks papers and her collection.
And so, when I played around on the speaking
and protesting in America exhibition,
I was really just shocked, and my
wheels started spinning about all
of the different segments I
could introduce students to.
And keeping kind of in line with what I think
Ryn highlighted earlier, there's a commentary
of black southern bus rider which
is an interview with Rosa Parks.
It's not that long.
I think it's roughly about 16 minutes total.
And it's worth listening to on a couple
levels as an educator to help kids unpack it.
The radio host himself indicates
some particular perspectives
that I think would be really
interesting to analyze with students.
And then even the words he uses before allowing
Rosa to begin speaking about the bus boycott,
those reveal a narrative that
was being told about her.
And I think would be especially rich to use that
recording and program with some selected items
from The Library of Congress
Rosa Parks papers collection.
And those together having listened to both the
interview as well as getting to see her thoughts
on paper I think would really help
kids expand their understanding of her.
Also, included in the speaking and
protesting in America that really jumped
out at me was thinking about how I
might use - there's a Cesar Chavez
and the Delano grape strike recording
that I would want to use the students
as I give them a broad view of different groups
have thought particularly marginalized groups,
have thought to use the First Amendment
to access their equality and their power.
And addition to that what
jumped out finally want
to highlight is there was another program
Radio Free Alcatraz was just considered
to be the beginning of the red power
movement and that were - those were broadcast
for when you had the American
Indian Movement take
over Alcatraz the former federal
prison off the shore in San Francisco.
And so, I know for me I'm working really
hard to try to have a lot of voices
in my historic - in my US history classroom.
And discovering these programs
is really a goldmine for me
because I think it allows students to
see a much broader version of history.
And also, in the words of
those individuals themselves.
While I have a captive audience for 30 seconds
more, I really want to encourage people to play
around with the collections
like Ryn and Alan mentioned.
They were - their phenomenal resources.
I've got - I spent a fair amount of time in The
Great Depression collection which I listened
to an interview with Mia Angelou and that
was just - I could have kept listening to it.
I also played around with and explored how I
might use the murder of Emmitt Till collection.
I think it has a lot of information
that would be really helpful
to provide context to that time period.
It's also the shadows that
we're dealing with now.
And then a lot of my students
identify within the LGBTQ community.
And the stonewall uprising
collection was new to me.
So, I'm excited to introduce
students to that next year.
Because I've had a hard time
finding a primary sources
in the voices of those in that community.
And I'm really excited to show kids those.
As well as the additional resources
those collections point the educator to.
So, I'm just really excited
to use these in my classroom.
This like I said this is all new to me.
I will sing the praises of this resource.
And I hope that you can find some - a lot of
resources and value and ways to be creative
in using them in your own classroom.
So, thank you.
>> Thank you, Jen.
And thank you, everyone.
I'm going to pass the mic
back to Colina [phonetic]
who will navigate the Q and A from here on out.
And if you'd like to visit
AAPB there's the website.
Our social media handle, our blog.
And feel free to subscribe.
And there are our emails.
Thanks, everyone.
>> Thank you so much, Ryn.
Thanks, Alan.
And thank you, Jen, for all that
great information and those resources.
And really talking us through how
we might use and navigate AAPB.
I am also a big, big fan of this archive.
Please anyone who has questions,
please do share.
Now is your chance to really
pick the brain these two experts.
And I'll get some preliminary questions asked.
Obviously, we threw a lot of information at you
and we definitely want to
hear what, what you think.
One question did come up and you
touched on it a little bit earlier.
It was basically about copyright
and rights restriction.
So, the question was are any rights
restrictions on the material?
And if so, are then explicitly
listed on the content?
>> And I'll field that, that question.
Yes, all of the content is currently -
it's too available for any other uses then
for research, instructional educational uses.
And anyone coming to the site
has to agree to our terms of use.
So, they'll be a pop-up window
when you come to the site.
Please read through the rules of use.
You can't download anything at this point.
You could use it for educational
purposes, streaming.
A lot - a number of the programs we
do have a button that says licensing.
So, if you wanted to license the content for a
particular use, it will give you information.
If it doesn't have a button and you want
to find out more about who has the rights,
I would suggest getting in contact with the
station that contributed it to the archive.
And you can click on the
station and get information
about where they are, or their website.
We do hope in the future to allow a
certain number of programs to be downloaded
that donors have given us that right to use it.
You know to creative commons rights.
We don't have that aspect of
the website functional as yet.
But we certainly will announce
when that will be available.
>> Great. Thank you.
Another participant wanted to know if the
items permanently live on the AAPB website?
>> Yes. They do live on our website.
You can embed a player so that
the player could live on your site
and it will direct a user to our own site.
But, yes, our agreements with the
donors we can't let them live elsewhere.
Unless as I said there's some that are.
Excuse me.
There's some that are creative commons and
those we will inform you of what's available.
>> We had a couple of comments specifically
on that the share [inaudible] Windows tool.
And I wondered if that feature is available
on all the items that are available
in the online reading room,
or just a selected few?
>> It's available for all of them.
It's a great, great segment.
A great, great function.
So, using it you could actually do a clip of any
length you want and get a link for that clip.
So, you could then embed that link in a
document, and students could then click
and get to the particular five
minutes, three minutes whatever.
Get right to the beginning of it.
And so, yes that's on every, every item.
>> Wonderful.
Well, we have about 15 minutes left so, if
anyone has any other questions please do share.
Thank you so much Ryn and Alan -
and Jen for being with us today.
And like I said for talking about
this wonderful project with us.
And giving us also a sneak
peek about what is to come.
For those of you [inaudible] wanted to
give you a heads up about what's coming
up this week for Online Office Hour.
So, this Thursday we will be diving
into math and primary sources.
So, if you're looking for ways to
apply a mathematics lens analysis
of primary sources please join us.
We'll share a number of different
resources and examples and different ways
about thinking [inaudible] in spite of them.
Also, just a reminder that
tomorrow we'll be offering a webinar
on I shall not be denied
women's suffrage exhibition.
I can post the link to that website.
If [inaudible] in registering for it.
This is a free one-hour personal
development for all educators.
Tomorrow the 20th at 2:00 pm Eastern.
I'll hope you'll be able to join us.
I don't see any other questions
so I will just end it here
with thank you to all of who are joining.
And thanks again to our presenters.
And we'll see you next time.
>> Thank you, everyone.
>> Thank you.
>> It was a pleasure.