This past March, the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) hosted two webinars with the Boston Library Consortium. This two-part webinar series provided an overview on the AAPB as well as review ways in which it can be effectively used as a resource for teaching and research.
Part I – “Accessibility of AAPB in Academic Libraries”
This webinar covered AAPB’s background, governance and infrastructure. Casey Kaufman, AAPB Project Manager, and Ryn Marchese, AAPB Engagement and Use Manager, discussed the scope, content and provenance of the AAPB collection; methods of searching, navigating, and accessing content in the AAPB; examples of the types of materials available in the AAPB collection, and the scholarly and research value of audiovisual collections and specifically public media archives.
Slides available: https://www.slideshare.net/RynMarchese/blc-webinar-part-1-accessibility-of-aapb-for-academic-libraries
Part II – “Use of AAPB in Humanities Research”
In this webinar, panelists Casey Kaufman (WGBH), Ingrid Ockert (Princeton University), and Mark Williams (Dartmouth College), explored specific use cases for librarians and researchers in accessing and making use of the AAPB collection. They included a general overview of how scholars and researchers are seeking to use digital AV collections, a brief recap of how AAPB provides access to its collection to researchers and the general public, incorporating AAPB into subject-specific LibGuides, use of audiovisual collections in traditional historical research and in academic coursework, and examples of how AAPB metadata and transcripts can be used in digital humanities research and data mining.
Slides available: https://blc.org/sites/default/files/BLC_Uploads/Part%20II_BLCs%20AAPB%20Webinars_Speaker%20Slides.pdf
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