Learning on ScreenROYAL SOCIETY AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVE
- Description
- The Audiovisual Archive covers the period 1931 to the present and consists of audiovisual 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, although there are a few items which predate those autobiographies.The series is arranged chronologically. Several items are dictabelts for which the Society has no suitable playback facilities. It is intended to reproduce these as standard cassettes.
- Website
- http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/library/
- Keywords
- Royal Society; Royal Society lectures
- Access
- By appointment during opening hours.
- Access for outsiders
- Yes. Open to all.
- Facilities
- By appointment.
- Charges
- Considered on individual basis.
- Copyright
- Copyright over own Royal Society material.
Moving Image, Audio and Related Documentation Holdings
- Music
- one recording.
- Sound
- 326
- Video/Film
- 84 (Films -6; videos - 29; television programmes - 36; records - 13).
Catalogues
- Computerised database
- Yes.
- Card catalogue
- There is a handlist to the collection, updated as new lectures are rcorded, and a small card catalogue appended to the General Card Catalogue which acts as an index to contributing Fellows and other scientsits.
- Digitised catalogue
- Not at present.
Main Contact
- Name
- Mrs. Joanna M Corden
- Job title
- Archivist
- Department
- Library and Information Service
- Telephone
- 020 7541 2605
- Fax
- 020 7930 2170
- joanna.corden@royalsoc.ac.uk
- Address
- 6 Carlton House Terrace
London
SW1Y 5AG
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