{"id":60999,"date":"2013-04-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-digitizes-hundreds-of-films-in-archive-of-political-papers-of-late-senator-pell\/"},"modified":"2013-04-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T00:00:00","slug":"uri-digitizes-hundreds-of-films-in-archive-of-political-papers-of-late-senator-pell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2013\/04\/uri-digitizes-hundreds-of-films-in-archive-of-political-papers-of-late-senator-pell\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 digitizes hundreds of films in archive of political papers of late Senator Pell"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 16, 2013 \u2013 Hundreds of 16-millimeter films, videotapes, reel-to-reel tapes and audio recordings in the Senator Claiborne Pell Papers at the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Robert L. Carothers Library and Learning Commons have recently been digitized, making it as simple as a click of a computer mouse to view hours of videos of the late United States senator with local, national and international leaders.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe last step in the process of preserving the digital media, the conversion of 170 16-millimeter films, was completed this month thanks to a gift from the van Beuren Charitable Foundation. <\/p>\n


\nSenator Pell made an initial gift of $75,000 to 溏心vlog免费B站 to begin the processing and preservation of his senatorial papers, and the Pell family later made a $200,000 challenge grant to continue the work. Additional private donations have been received, including a $50,000 anonymous gift. 溏心vlog免费B站 $40,000 in donations is being sought to complete the project. Work is on schedule to archive all of Senator Pell\u2019s work, but the project will not be completed for a few years.<\/p>\n


\n\tPell began transferring his papers to 溏心vlog免费B站 in 1974, early in his senate career, making periodic accessions every few years as they were accumulated. Originally on loan, the materials were donated to the University in 2012. Included in the archive are original works of legislation he authored, correspondence with constituents and colleagues, reports, speeches, invitations, photographs and many other documents, including family papers dating back more than 100 years. The entire collection totals approximately 2,500 linear feet of files.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cDigitizing the films was a critical step to preserving them because film erodes over time and they could become unviewable,\u201d said Mark Dionne, 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s political papers archivist. \u201cWe have a lot of unique materials in the collection, and if they erode we would lose a lot of that history.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tDionne said that numerous people view the archive every year, including students of politics and foreign policy, lawyers working on national legal cases, those interested in human rights in the Soviet Union or the founding of the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities, among many others. Recent users have come from Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico and all across the United States.<\/p>\n


\n\tG. Wayne Miller, an author, filmmaker and Providence Journal staff writer who recently published the definitive biography of Pell, said he would not have been able to write the book, An Uncommon Man: The Life and Times of Senator Claiborne Pell, without access to the archive.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe archives are a treasure trove to anyone with an interest in the late senator’s many causes, from education to foreign policy, and many topics in between,\u201d he said. \u201cMore than that, it is a vital, rich and incredibly detailed record of the national story from before Claiborne was born until he left the Senate in 1997, after six terms.”<\/p>\n


\n\tThe Pell archive is the largest archive of political papers maintained at the 溏心vlog免费B站 library. The University also stores the papers of former Senator John Chafee, former governors William Vanderbilt, Frank Licht, Philip Noel, J. Joseph Garrahy, Edward DiPrete, Bruce Sundlun and Lincoln Almond, as well as those of former Representatives Claudine Schneider and Robert Weygand and the senatorial papers of Governor Lincoln Chafee, among others.<\/p>\n


\n\tTo view an index of the Pell Papers, visit http:\/\/www.uri.edu\/library\/special_collections\/political_papers\/pell\/senator_pell_papers2.htm.<\/p>\n


\n Arrangements can be made to view the papers by contacting Dionne at mjdionne@uri.edu or 401-874-4619.<\/p>\n


\n\tThose wishing to donate funds to support the archive may contact the 溏心vlog免费B站 Foundation at 401-874-7900.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 16, 2013 \u2013 Hundreds of 16-millimeter films, videotapes, reel-to-reel tapes and audio recordings in the Senator Claiborne Pell Papers at the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Robert L. Carothers Library and Learning Commons have recently been digitized, making it as simple as a click of a computer mouse to view hours of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}