Re: [ARSCLIST] Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Audio Archive now online

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David:

This is wonderful! So much interesting content, so little time. The iPod
will be working overtime!

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Seubert" <seubert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 2:05 PM
Subject: [ARSCLIST] Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Audio
Archive now online


> The Department of Special Collections at the University of California
> Santa Barbara has created a digital archive of the recorded programs of
> the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI). The archive
> is located at: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/csdi/ and audio is
> available for streaming and download.
>
> CSDI was founded by Robert Maynard Hutchins and was based in Santa
> Barbara, California, from 1959 to 1987. During that time it brought
> together many of the most capable and distinguished minds of the times
> to discuss vital issues facing American society of the day. Political
> and academic leaders, scientists, social scientists, legal scholars,
> journalists, theologians, labor and community leaders focused on topics
> such as peace and war, democracy, dissent, community action, ecology and
> the environment, elections and the electoral process, immigration,
> international relations, law and order, the media, race and ethnicity,
> and religion. Prominent participants included Senator Alan Cranston,
> Upton Sinclair, Milton Friedman, Mortimer Adler, Cesar Chavez, Aldous
> Huxley, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Sander Vanocur, and
> Gunner Myrdal among many others.
>
> During its nearly thirty-year history the Center recorded a large
> portion of its discussions and selected material was edited into topical
> programs for radio broadcast and public distribution. Thanks to donors
> Neal Linson, Ceil Pulitzer, and Stanley Sheinbaum, over 700 topical
> programs (around 600 hours of material) originally produced by the
> Center have been digitized by Safe Sound Archive and an initial
> selection of 250 programs has been made available online by the UCSB
> Libraries. Other tapes recorded by the Center are also being preserved
> and their archives are held by the UCSB Libraires.
>
> David Seubert
>
> -- 
> David Seubert, Curator
> Performing Arts Collection
> Davidson Library
> University of California
> Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010
> Tel: 805-893-5444 Fax: 805-893-5749
> seubert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/pa/