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Collection Overview

Title: Audiovisual Material, 1969-1970, 1977, 1984-1998, 2000-2013

ID: 12/3/63

Primary Creator: Public Information Office

Extent: 29.0 Cubic Feet

Arrangement: Alphabetical

Subjects: Adult Education, Censorship, Intellectual Freedom, Intellectual Freedom, Office for, Library Advertising, Literacy, National Library Week, President, ALA, USA PATRIOT Act

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Audiovisual material including 1/2 inch VHS, 3/4 inch U-Matic, Betacam, and 16mm film formats covering press and service announcements, news spots and interview segments relating to reading library services, censorship, internet, literacy, FBI, adult basic education, National Library Week, the @ Your Library Campaign, and additional promotional campaigns. Interviewees include Patricia Berger, John Berry, Clara Bhorer, Carol Brey Casiano, Barbara Ford, Mitch Freedman, Judith Krug, Sarah Long, Nancy Kranich, Patricia Schuman, Mary Sommerville, Ann Symons, and Betty Turock. Also includes color slide/audiotape presentations "Celebrate" (1977, 1/4 magnetic tape) and "Always in Season" (1984, cassette tape). Also includes 1/2" VHS recordings of press and media highlights (1989-1993), as well as Betacam footage on ALA Goal 2000, "A Nation Connected" (2/20/96).

Biographical Note

Recommendation was made in 1923 for a full time Headquarters staff appointment for publicity and broadened in 1929 to include information dissemination, both subsumed under a Publicity Department (1). Between 1930 and 1942, the Department, responsible to the Executive Director, acted under the supervision of the Publicity Committee (2). Thereafter, until 1973, this department became known as the Public Relations Division or Office, which also conducted the activities of the Department of Information and Advisory Services (3). As an outgrowth of this later department, the Public Information Office (PIO) first appeared in 1974 as part of "Other Services" (4).

The Public Information Office (PIO) was formed in th 1974 after a reorganization of the Public Relations and Membership Promotion Offices (5). In October 1974 the Executive Committee of the National Book Committee, Inc. voted to discontinue their library promotional effort, National Library Week (NLW), with the understanding that ALA would assume responsibility for NLW (6); PIO began functioning in 1975 when ALA inherited that responsibility (7).

The purpose of the Public Information Office is to maintain communication with the national and international press, providing information about ALA, its activities, and major developments affecting the library profession (8). "The responsibility for implementing national information programs . . . rests with the Public Information Office of the Association with support by the Public Relations (LAMA) Section and other appropriate groups" (9).

The Public Information Office is an ALA headquarters staff component (10). Its position has been changed from an original listing as "Other Services" (11) to a "Publishing Services" office (12), to a position as a Communications Services unit (13).

In 1980 the Office included a director and a publishing information officer (14); in 1983, the publishing information officer became public information officer, and the position of chapter relations officer was added (15).

"PIO produces a weekly review column "About Books" syndicated to more than 700 newspapers" (16) and, since 1982, a quarterly publication, Openers (17).

Subject/Index Terms

Adult Education
Censorship
Intellectual Freedom
Intellectual Freedom, Office for
Library Advertising
Literacy
National Library Week
President, ALA
USA PATRIOT Act

Administrative Information

Repository: The American Library Association Archives

Accruals: 6/8/94; 3/4/96; 8/29/96; 9/18/96; 1/27/99; 7/21/00; 8/4/00; 3/23/01; 3/18/08; 5/28/13; 8/27/13; 7/29/15

Other Note: 16 Pages

PDF Box/Folder List

URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/alasfa/1203063a.pdf

PDF finding aid for Audiovisual Material (12/3/63)

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