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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities recordings
Creator:
Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities
Identifier/Call Number: 5365
Identifier/Call Number: /repositories/3/resources/3082
Physical Description:
3.13 Linear Feet
5 boxes
Physical Description:
119 Gigabytes
612 computer files in 5 computer folders
Date (inclusive): 1998-2021
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.
Language of Material:
English
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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.
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.
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.
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.
[Box/folder no. or item name], Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities recordings, Collection no. 5365, University Archives,
Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Lectures and lecturing -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
Speeches, addresses, etc. -- Archival resources
Born digital
Digital images
Fliers (printed matter)
Moving images
Sound recordings
Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities -- Archives