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Here is also a neat link:

C-SPAN Video Archives Now Available Online

The C-SPAN Online Archives Web site offers the public free and unlimited video dating back to 1987, a span of five presidential administrations. “C-SPAN Online Archives will redefine social studies education in America,” says Frances Martel, a columnist for the Web site Mediaite, which covers news about print, online, and broadcast media. “It is a godsend to anyone embarking on an American history research project.”

Programs are indexed by subjects, speaker names, titles, affiliations, sponsors, Congressional committees, categories, policy groups, keywords, and locations. Educators and students are encouraged to use the resources, according to the C-Span’s Copyright Policy for Educators. The archive also includes a wealth of talks and interviews with nonfiction authors from BookTV, CSPAN’s weekend nonfiction book programming.

The network isn’t the first to make its archives available. NBC News has created NBC Learn, which is a portal for the subscription service NBC News Archives On Demand. Unlike C-SPAN archives, NBC’s archives are tailored to be curriculum specific and also include original video content. Its Science of the Olympic Winter Games, created in partnership with the National Science Foundation, proved to be a very popular resource in schools during the recent Vancouver Olympics.

As part of the C-Span Online Archives launch, the Huffington Post is asking readers to submit the best videos and moments from 20 years of Congressional history. Readers will then be asked to vote on their favorite moment.

Brian Lamb, C-SPAN founder and CEO, is an alumnus of Purdue University, whose School of Library Arts has been collecting C-SPAN archives since 1986. The network launched in 1979, but little video from its early years is available.

In July 1998, C-SPAN assumed responsibility for Purdue University’s archival operations and its facilities were moved off campus to Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette, IN, where two machines that can turn 16 hours of tapes into digital files every hour have been working around the clock to move C-SPAN’s programs online.

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Another link:

C-SPAN founder, Gov. Daniels to discuss higher education during public interview

In 2011 Purdue named its School of Communication after Brian Lamb, who founded C-SPAN - Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network - in 1977. The network's initial telecasts of the U.S. House of Representatives commenced in 1979, and today there are three C-SPAN networks offering around-the-clock coverage of the political process. Lamb stepped down this past year as CEO of C-SPAN.

Purdue also is home of the C-SPAN Archives, which records, indexes and archives C-SPAN programming. Established in 1987 for historical, educational and research uses, the archives is located at the Purdue Research Park and operated and funded by C-SPAN. All programs are digital and can be viewed for free at http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/

Last year, Project Impact hosted a variety of audience-interactive forums that featured national journalists, historians, issues analysts and social media executives. The series, "2012: It's Not Just Politics, It's Our Future," will continue this semester.

The Brian Lamb School of Communication is home to 974 undergraduate majors, 120 graduate students and 34 full-time faculty members. The six areas of graduate study and research are health communication; interpersonal communication; media, technology and society; organizational communication; public relations/issue management; and rhetorical studies.

Writer: Amy Patterson Neubert, 765-494-9723, apatterson@purdue.edu

Sources: Carolyn Curiel, curiel@purdue.edu

Howard Sypher, head of the Brian Lamb School of Communication, hsypher@purdue.edu

Irwin Weiser, Justin S. Morrill Dean of Liberal Arts, 765-494-3661, iweiser@purdue.edu

Perhaps Amy Patterson Neubert can access 1986 stuff....