IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0117 AV
Held at: Royal Society
Title: Audio-Visual Archive
Date(s): 1931
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 288 items to date.
Name of creator(s): Various
CONTEXT
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CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Audio-visual recordings by or about Fellows of the Royal Society. The bulk of the collection consists of audio material, in particular cassette recordings of the Society's named lectures, which have been preserved in this manner since 1974. The remainder of the series has been acquired as supplementary material to the Personal Records (q.v.), although there are a few items which predate those autobiographies.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The collection is arranged as follows: AV/1 Tape recordings; AV/2 Videotapes; AV/3 Films; AV/4 Records; AV/5 Compact disks; AV/6 Webcasts; AV/7 Digital Video Cassettes; AV/8 DVD (Digital Versatile Discs).
Conditions governing access:
OPEN - but some items restricted.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.
Physical characteristics:
Several items are dictabelts for which the Society has no suitable playback facilities; it is intended to reproduce these as standard cassettes.
Finding aids:
There is a handlist to the collection, updated as new lectures are recorded, and a small card catalogue appended to the General Card Catalogue which acts as an index to contributing Fellows and other scientists. Information given in each includes: subject or title of the work recorded/ author, contributor or speakers/ date/ venue (if appropriate)/ medium/ extent/ playback speed (if appropriate)/ location within the series.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.