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Another message I've been requested to forward to
the list. Please contact Martha Yee if you have
any questions.

Thanks,
Bob Schmidt
Archives Listserve Coordinator
Miami University Archives
Oxford, Ohio 45056
513-529-6720
rschmidt@lib.muohio.edu
_____________________________

As of January 2002, any libraries, archives, media
collections and the like
that catalog motion pictures and television
programs may benefit from use of the RLG Union
Catalog to find full MARC records for such works
held in the collection of the UCLA Film and
Television Archive; these are available for RLG
members to download into online systems that
support the MARC format.

In late August 2001, RLG began loading more than
150,000 bibliographic
records from the UCLA Film and Television Archive
into the RLG Union Catalog under location code
CULF.  Weekly updates will maintain the currency
of the collection.  Most of the records were
loaded into the Visual Materials file with a
smattering of records loaded into Recordings.
More information can be found in an RLG Focus
article located at:

   http://www.rlg.org/r-focus/i53.html#ucla

The UCLA Film and Television Archive records
continue to be available for searching over the
Internet at the following site, as well, but full
MARC
records cannot be downloaded from this site:

  http://orion2.library.ucla.edu

NOTE:  Be sure to select the Film and Television
Archive database before
every search.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive was founded
in the late 1960s.  It is now the largest
university-based repository of original film and
television
materials in the world.  Its catalog currently
contains nearly 150,000
titles.  As part of its mission, the archive
collects and preserves motion
pictures and broadcast programming, and works to
advance public
understanding and appreciation of moving image
media.  The archive also supports scholarly
research and media production, explores how new
technologies can contribute to preservation and
restoration, and educates
and trains archivists.  As film and television
play a greater role in
shaping our culture, the work of the archive
increases in importance.

The film collection is strongest in the
Hollywood-produced sound cinema from the 1930s,
'40s, and '50s, including newsreels, but also
includes
significant selections representing many other
periods and aspects of
filmmaking.  The television holdings consist of
examples from all types of
broadcasting, representing every facet of American
television history from
1947 to the present.  In addition to the 150,000
titles in the catalog, the
Archive has 100,000 uninventoried newsreel titles
as well as a large number of radio broadcasts
which will eventually be added to its catalog.

Martha M. Yee
Cataloging Supervisor
UCLA Film and Television Archive
1015 N. Cahuenga Blvd.
Los Angeles, California  90038-2635

323-462-4921 x27
323-461-6317 (fax)
myee@ucla.edu (Email)

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