Finding aid for the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities recordings 5365

Bo Doub

USC Libraries Special Collections

2021 April

Doheny Memorial Library 206

3550 Trousdale Parkway

Los Angeles, California 90089-0189

specol@usc.edu

URL: http://libraries.usc.edu/locations/special-collections

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 .

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.

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.

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.

Preferred Citation

[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

Box 1, Box 2, Box 3, Box 4, Box 5

Recordings on audio cassette tapes /repositories/3/archival_objects/677680 1998-2004

Digital recordings and reference material /repositories/3/archival_objects/677681 2005-2021

Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities digital recordings - USC Digital Library