Associated Students of Stanford University, Speakers Bureau, audio-visual materials, 1981-1996

Collection context

Summary

Creators:
Associated Students of Stanford University. Speakers Bureau and Stanford University. Associated Students. Speakers Bureau
Abstract:
Audio tapes of talks sponsored by the ASSU Speakers Bureau; presenters include Bernard Malamud, Ray Bradbury, Gore Vidal, Alexander Zinoviev, Raymond Carver, Tillie Olson, Hunter S. Thompson, Shirley Chisholm, Alex Haley, Linus Pauling, Adrienne Rich, Alonda King, Betty Friedan, Jello Biafra, Ann Richards, and Alice Walker. There are also tapes from a symposium on pornography with Andrea Dworkin, Linda Lovelace, Catherine MacKinnon, and Burton Joseph (1982); a NASA Space Shuttle talk (1982); a debate on apartheid with Bobby Seale and Stuart Pringle (1985); the Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration (1986); and the Malcolm X Birthday Celebration (1990). Collection also includes 4 miscellaneous videotapes.
Extent:
1 Linear Feet 71 audiocassettes and 4 videotapes (VHS)
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

Associated Students of Stanford University, Speakers Bureau, Audio-Visual Materials (SC0748). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Background

Scope and content:

Audio tapes of talks sponsored by the ASSU Speakers Bureau; presenters include Bernard Malamud, Ray Bradbury, Gore Vidal, Alexander Zinoviev, Raymond Carver, Tillie Olson, Hunter S. Thompson, Shirley Chisholm, Alex Haley, Linus Pauling, Adrienne Rich, Alonda King, Betty Friedan, Jello Biafra, Ann Richards, and Alice Walker. There are also tapes from a symposium on pornography with Andrea Dworkin, Linda Lovelace, Catherine MacKinnon, and Burton Joseph (1982); a NASA Space Shuttle talk (1982); a debate on apartheid with Bobby Seale and Stuart Pringle (1985); the Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration (1986); and the Malcolm X Birthday Celebration (1990). Collection also includes 4 miscellaneous videotapes.

Acquisition information:
Administrative transfer, 2002.
Physical location:
Special Collections and University Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged 48 hours in advance. For more information on paging collections, see the department's website: http://library.stanford.edu/spc.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original format and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.

Terms of access:

While University Archives is the owner of the physical and/or digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.

Preferred citation:

Associated Students of Stanford University, Speakers Bureau, Audio-Visual Materials (SC0748). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Location of this collection:
Stanford University Archives, Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064, US
Contact:
(650) 725-1022