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Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities recordings

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Identifier: 5365

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Scope and Contents

The Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities (LAIH) was founded in 1998 to stimulate a cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas through events both on the USC campus and off-campus for Institute Fellows and their guests. LAIH hosts bimonthly lunches for fellows accompanied by lectures from guests representing a variety of disciplines. Steve Wasserman and Steve Ross served as the initial co-directors of the Institute. Ross initiated the practice of recording the talks given at the luncheons on an inexpensive cassette recorder. Claude Zachary, University Archivist, took over recording on better equipment beginning in late 2004. Zachary has continued to record the talks, moving to a digital recorder starting circa 2010. During the COVID-19 epidemic, the lunches were held via Zoom and the LAIH preserved the MP4 video from each meeting. The Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities recordings hold audio and video recordings from the Institute's lunches and is an ongoing collection. The collection also contains event fliers saved as PDF files, digital images, and speaker presentation files documenting LAIH luncheons.

Dates

  • Creation: 1998 - 2021

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The analog material in this collection is stored off-site. Advance notice is required for access to the analog material. The digital files described under the series titled "Digital recordings and reference material" are publicly accessible via the USC Digital Library. Each digital folder- and file-level record in this finding aid includes a link to the corresponding USC Digital Library asset.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Rights Statement for Archival Description

Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Extent

3.13 Linear Feet (5 boxes)

119 Gigabytes (612 computer files in 5 computer folders)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

The Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities (LAIH) was founded in 1998 to stimulate a cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas through events both on the USC campus and off-campus for Institute Fellows and their guests. LAIH hosts bimonthly lunches for fellows accompanied by lectures from guests representing a variety of disciplines. Steve Wasserman and Steve Ross served as the initial co-directors of the Institute. Ross initiated the practice of recording the talks given at the luncheons on an inexpensive cassette recorder. Claude Zachary, University Archivist, took over recording on better equipment beginning in late 2004. Zachary has continued to record the talks, moving to a digital recorder starting circa 2010. During the COVID-19 epidemic, the lunches were held via Zoom and the LAIH preserved the MP4 video from each meeting. The Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities recordings hold audio and video recordings from the Institute's lunches and is an ongoing collection. The collection also contains event fliers saved as PDF files, digital images, and speaker presentation files documenting LAIH luncheons.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Claude Zachary, University Archivist, began preserving the recordings in this collection in 2004. Description of the collection in ArchivesSpace began in 2021.

Title
Finding aid for the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities recordings
Status
Minimally Processed
Author
Bo Doub
Date
2021 April
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Revision Statements

  • 2023 November: Bo Doub updated the finding aid to include analog audio recordings added to the collection in 2023 (accession no. 2023-062). Bo Doub also changed the collection title from "Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities digital recordings" to "Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities recordings."

Repository Details

Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States