Digital media collection - University of Virginia School of Law, 2001/2023

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Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
170 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Special Collections Public Services & Reference Staff
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Restrictions:

The materials in this collection have no access restrictions.

There are no restrictions on access to the materials in this series.

There are no restrictions on access to the recordings in this series.

Terms of access:

Because of the nature of this collection, copyright status varies across the materials. Copyright is assumed to be held by the original creator of individual items; these items are expected to pass into the public domain 120 years after their creation. The University may grant permission to publish or reproduce intellectual property it owns in the name of The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia.

Because of the nature of this series, copyright status varies across the materials. Copyright is assumed to be held by the original creator of individual items; these items are expected to pass into the public domain 120 years after their creation. The University may grant permission to publish or reproduce intellectual property it owns in the name of The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia.

Because of the nature of this collection, copyright status might vary across the materials. Copyright is assumed to be held by the original creator of individual items; these items are expected to pass into the public domain 120 years after their creation. The University may grant permission to publish or reproduce intellectual property that it owns in the name of The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia.

Summary

Extent:
402.822 Gigabytes
Creator:
University of Virginia. School of Law
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

This resource consists of digital media produced and curated by the University of Virginia School of Law's communications department. These include mp3 audio files and web archives of online news and media collections. Together, the materials in this collection document the wide-ranging work of the School of Law and provides evidence of how the School presents itself to the world.

This series consists of online media collections that the University of Virginia School of Law curated and disseminated online. They generally consist of news articles, videos, and sound recordings. These materials document the School of Law's wide-ranging work and provide evidence of how the School presents itself to the broader world.

The University of Virginia School of Law maintains the "Alumni in the News" resource on its website. It lists and provides links to articles, videos, and other media highlighting the work of the School's alumni. The links generally point to media produced by outlets outside of the University of Virginia, including newspapers, blogs, and television news networks.

Individuals using the archive can filter this resource by year. Whenever possible, archivists at the University of Virginia have tried to capture and preserve the media linked to Alumni in the News. However, many of these items could not be captured and preserved either because they were behind a paywall or they were no longer made available online by their hosts.

The University of Virginia School of Law maintains the "Faculty in the News" resource on its website. It lists and provides links to articles, videos, and other media highlighting the work of the School's faculty. The links generally point to media produced by outlets outside of the University of Virginia, including newspapers, blogs, and television news networks.

The search and filter tools that were features in the original resource were not archived. Also, archivists did not capture and preserve the external media linked to this resource.

This item was created during a crawl of the University of Virginia School of Law's Faculty in the News archive. It contains links to articles and other content published online from 2001 to July 2023.

The University of Virginia School of Law maintains a public archive of news articles on its website that documents and promotes the School's work. It largely consists of stories authored by the School of Law's Communications and Media Relations department. They cover a wide range of topics including, but not limited to, faculty research, student life, major events, alumni/alumnae activities, accolades, curricular developments, and significant policy changes.

The School of Law's Communications and Media Relations department added features to the archive that facilitate research. Individuals using the archive can filter articles by either year or topic. This resource does not include sound recordings and videos that originally were linked to the news archive. Researchers can access copies of these materials in the School of Law's related Video and Audio Archive.

This item was created during a crawl of the University of Virginia School of Law Online News Archive. It contains news articles published online from 2006 to April 13, 2023.

The University of Virginia School of Law maintains a public archive of videos and audio recordings on its website that documents and promotes the School's work. The archive includes recordings of interviews, lectures, commencement celebrations, and significant events. Also, it links to podcast recordings and promotional videos created by staff and faculty affiliated with the School of Law.

The recordings in this archive were originally hosted on various online platforms, including YouTube and SoundCloud. However, researchers can access the recordings locally without using these platforms.

The School of Law's Communications and Media Relations Department added features to the archive that facilitate access and research. The department included brief descriptions of most of the recordings in the archive and sometimes provided copies of recording transcripts. The University of Virginia Law Library did not capture the topical filters in the original archive, and that feature does not work in the materials described here.

This series consists of audio files that the Law School's Communications department created and/or curated. The files contain recordings of lectures, panels, commemorations, and other events at the Law School dating from around 2005 to 2022. The School made these files available to the general public on its website.

Acquisition information:
The materials in this collection were transferred to the Arthur J. Morris Law Library at various times from different sources. More specific information about the immediate source of acquisition of items is recorded in other parts of this finding aid (e.g., series-level notes).
Appraisal information:

The materials in this series initially existed as web pages linked to the School of Law website. Archivists strive to capture the School of Law's online resources and preserve them in a state close to how they would have appeared to users when they were live. However, to overcome technological limitations and to allow for sustainable preservation, archivists often made appraisal decisions that resulted in archived websites that function and look different from the originals. For example, when the School of Law media archive was too large to crawl and preserve as a single resource, archivists divided it into facets and crawled each part separately.

When using the web archives in this collection, researchers should know that these resources are not identical copies of the original websites. Instead, they are close representations shaped by the appraisal decisions of archivists.

Archivists at the University of Virginia Law Library divided the Online Video and Audio Archive into smaller annual collections of recordings, except from 2006 to 2009. They made these divisions to facilitate preservation and access.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard