National Educational Television Collection Catalog

Item

Title

National Educational Television Collection Catalog

Description

The American Archive of Public Broadcasting will develop a national catalog of National Educational Television (NET) titles. NET (1952-1972) comprises the earliest public television content, about 8-10,000 titles, including some incisive social documentaries. WGBH, WNET, Indiana University and the Library of Congress (hold the largest collections of NET materials. Programs are scattered, descriptions are limited and in obscure sources, and there is no publicly accessible list of titles. A national catalog with descriptive data gathered during this project will give scholars access to the NET collection. With CLIR funds, WGBH will develop the catalog and contract with LOC to process its NET materials for inclusion.

Date

Temporal Coverage

1952 - 1972

Spatial Coverage

Primarily across the US but also some international topics

Extent

10000 Audiovisual

Collaborating Institution

Identifier

PI2 Institution

Library of Congress

PI2 Name

Mr. Alan Gevinson

Primary Contact

Ms. Karen Cariani

Request

$458,619

Was Funded