Access to the Voices of the D.O.B. at The Lesbian Herstory Archives
1. Access to the Voices of the D.O.B. At The Lesbian Herstory Archives
An Archival VHS Preservation Study
Fall 2012, GSLIS 709, Dr. Colleen Cool
by
Désirée Yael Vester
Queens College, CUNY
dvester100@qc.cuny.edu
2. Hidden Collections
• The Council on Library and Information
Resources (CLIR)
• The Lesbian Herstory Archives (LHA)
• The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB)
3. The Literature Review
• The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
• The Fair Use Doctrine (Fair Use)
• The Guidelines for Media Resources in
Academic Libraries (ACRL)
4. Literature Review (cont.)
• Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines
for Digitization for U.S Libraries, Archives and
Musems
• The Code for Best Practices in Fair Use for
Academic and Research Libraries
• VideoLib
• The TEACH Act
5. Methodology: Case Studies
• Criteria for Inclusion
• The Vanderbilt TV News Archive
• The Living Video Preservation Project
• The Ethnographic Video for Instruction and
Analysis Archive (EVIAA)
6. Findings & Future Study
• Digitization Process
• Management and Access/Distribution models
• Application to D.O.B. Collection