CCTV receives NEH grant to support community archives | Vermont Business Magazine
Summary
This $49,927 grant award will support efforts to preserve and expand access to audio/visual community history materials in the CCTV Archives.The CCTV Archives include 42,000+ video programs dating back to the early 1980s in Burlington, Vermont, a time of social and political transformation of the states largest city. Begun as the collection of a prolific local videographer and CCTV Co-Founder, Nat Ayer recording hometown events, CCTV quickly expanded into a collection of recordings by a legion of community media makers connecting community members while documenting local history and culture in the making.The CCTV Archives exist on a range of media types, including VHS tapes and DVCams as well as born-digital content. Any member of the public may search CCTVs entire catalog of program listings from 1984 to the present.The CCTV Archives contain all material produced by CCTV and Town Meeting TV producers and community users including municipal meetings, election coverage, studio programs, and field recordings. In addition, the CCTV Archives maintain select content produced independently and submitted by municipalities, community members, the Vermont Media Exchange, National Media Exchange, and CCTV Productions.More than half of this archival collection has been digitized and made viewable online and usable, through a creative commons license, to community members, researchers, journalists, and the general public. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this project do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.To learn more about the CCTV Archives, to inquire about contributing audio/visual materials, or to support the efforts to preserve community history, please contact Jordan Mitchell at [email protected] or 802-862-3966 x126.