Spring Tour for DU's Special Library Association
The Barco Library at DU's Cable Center
Saturday April 16th 1:30pm - 3pm
RSVP to cbaker55@du.edu
On this tour, you'll not only learn about the collections, but also
get the chance to ask about their collection development work, about
their fee-based services, and about the day-to-day work of digitizing,
transcribing, cataloguing, and preserving diverse materials. And I say
it's worth it to go just ask our tour guide, managing librarian Lisa
Backman, about her work here in Denver and how she got to this
position.
The Cable Center is on campus at 2000 Buchtel Blvd.
Check out the library\'s website: http://www.cablecenter.org/content.cfm?id=19
Great article in Colorado Libraries:
http://coloradolibrariesjournal.org/?q=node/41
The Barco Library in The Cable Center is the only resource devoted
exclusively to cable telecommunications. If you have yet to visit,
this is a great opportunity to see a special library that collects
very diverse materials and because of it's association with DU and mix
of free and advanced fee-based services, straddles the divide between
academic, special, and public libraries.
In addition to monograph and serial titles, the Barco Library collects
manuscripts, personal papers, awards, and marketing artifacts
representing current companies and those that no longer exist.Through
the years the photograph collections have grown to 100,000 images,
many of which are soon to be online with the completion of their
digitization project. The Library has over 7000 hours of media ranging
from the first original HBO program to examples of programming picked
by networks as examples of "good shows." The Technology Archive
includes more than 2,000 pieces of cable television equipment,
including examples of pieces used for sending and receiving signals.
Finally, the Oral and Video History Program gathers perspectives from
people who played key roles in creating and growing the industry. All
the library’s collections combine to provide a unique historical
retrospective of the cable industry from 1950 to the present.
-Corey Baker
Maybe I can use this as my topic for my school paper works.
Posted by: essay | October 21, 2011 at 03:55 PM
he Library has over 7000 hours of media ranging
from the first original HBO program to examples of programming picked
by networks as examples of "good shows. cant wait
Posted by: giochi roulette | September 30, 2011 at 01:57 PM