This panel will offer participants an update on sources for classroom projects and papers in broadcasting and telecommunications history in the United States and Great Britain. Increasingly, online materials are available that include documents, oral histories, and images, descriptions of individuals and technical artifacts, as well as contemporaneous popular and trade reports and old radio and television programs. Sources presented and gathered at the session will be organized and made available to all BEA members.
Moderator: Patrick Parsons, Pennsylvania State University
Panelists: Susan Brinson, Auburn University; Accessing National Archival Sources for Classroom Use
Michael Henry, Library of American Broadcasting; Ideas From The Library of American Broadcasting
Richard Rubin, Liverpool John Moores University; Hear It Now,’ As It Was Then: Audio Archives of BBC and Commercial Radio in the UK
Patrick Parsons, Penn State; Off The Beaten path: Non-Traditional, Local and Regional Opportunities
Laura Linder, Marist College; Using Archives in a Broadcast History Class
Mike Adams, San Jose State University; Sifting Through: Critical Thinking and Assessment Skills for Undergrads and Grads