Media and Technology Services records, 1968-1996.
Collection Number: 21-36-3152

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Media and Technology Services records, 1968-1996.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
21-36-3152
Abstract:
Correspondence, reports, policies, slides, photographs, videotapes, and other material of the office of Media and Technology Services; including the files of the first director Christopher Whittle and information on the New York State Fair, Empire Farm Days and the Educational Television Center.
Creator:
Cornell University. Media and Technology Services
Whittle, Christopher.
Quanitities:
5.3 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence, reports, policies, slides, photographs, videotapes, and other material of the office of Media and Technology Services; including the files of the first director Christopher Whittle and information on the New York State Fair, Empire Farm Days and the Educational Television Center.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Media and Technology Services Records, #21-36-3152. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Cornell University. Media Services
Cornell University -- : Publicity.
Cornell University. Educational Television Center
Empire Farm Days
New York State Fair -- : Syracuse.
Subjects:
College publicity.
Form and Genre Terms:
Videotapes.
Photographs.
Slides (photographs).

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Scope and Contents
All the material in the collection may not be covered by this guide.
Series I. List of Files
Box 1 Folder 1
Christopher Whittle: First Director of Media Services
1975-07-1986-04
Box 1 Folder 2
History of the Acquisition and Use of a Mobile Satellite Uplink Truck
date unknown
Box 1 Folder 3
Media Services Space Study: An Attempt to Create a Single Building to House the Department
date unknown
Box 1 Folder 4
Media and Technology Services background
date unknown
Box 1 Folder 5
ETV, Educational Television Center, miscellaneous background and history
1975-2001
Box 1 Folder 6
ETV Center early history
1968-1974
Scope and Contents
When the ETV Center was first created in the new wing of MVR Hall, College of Human Ecology, it was administered by the Department of Communication Arts. In 1975, when the Broadhead report created the Department of Media Services, separate from Communication Arts, the ETV Center was merged into the new Media Services Department under Christopher Whittle
Box 1 Folder 7
Food and Life Sciences Quarterly/FOCUS: History of the College of Agriculture's Journal of Research for a Lay Audience and Media Services Role in its Production
date unknown
Box 1 Folder 8
Miscellaneous Media Services organization charts
date unknown
Box 1 Folder 9
CALS 75th Anniversary multi-media show
date unknown
Box 1 Folder 10
David, Watkins Jr. - Second Director of Media Services
1986-04-2000-12
Box 1 Folder 11
Empire Farm Days: Media Services role
date unknown
Box 1 Folder 12
CCESN, Cornell Cooperative Extension Satellite Network Downlink Sites
date unknown
Box 1 Folder 13
CCESN Survey
date unknown
Box 1 Folder 14
CCESN: Creation of..
date unknown
Box 1 Folder 15
CCESN: Evaluations of major programs
date unknown
Box 1 Folder 16
Additional Satellite Uplink Truck History
date unknown
Box 1 Folder 17
Media Services: Distribution Center
date unknown
Box 1 Folder 18
Media Services: Creation of University Photography
date unknown
Box 1 Folder 19
Media Services: Historical policy and information
date unknown
Box 1 Folder 20
Media Services: Policy and pricing
date unknown
Box 1 Folder 21
Asia tour: ETV Center and Cornell Glee Club
date unknown
Box 1 Folder 22
Media Services: Television and Radio
date unknown
Box 1 Folder 23
Media Services: Nutrition PSA's, ETV Center
date unknown
Box 1 Folder 24
Media Services: Marketing, mission, values and philosophy
date unknown
Box 1 Folder 25
Media Services: Computer aided publishing
date unknown
Box 1 Folder 26
Media Services: Radio: FOCUS proposal to go national with NPR type programming
date unknown
Box 1 Folder 27
Media Services: Computer Network: Creation of…
date unknown
Box 1 Folder 28
Media and Technology Services: Web Production Unit, creation and costs
date unknown
Box 2 Folder 1
Photos: State Fair youth building - Cornell Cooperative Extension county exhibits
1992-1993
Box 2 Folder 2
Empire Farm Days
1996
Box 2 Folder 3
Fall 1993 NYSAC Conference
1993
Box 2 Folder 4
Spring 1993 NYSAC Conference
1993
Box 2 Folder 5
Extension Showcase
1993
Box 2 Folder 6
Fall 1992 NYSAC Conference
1992
Box 2 Folder 7
Extension Showcase
1992
Box 2 Folder 8
Legislative Showcase
1991
Box 2 Folder 9
NYSAC Conference/Workshop
1992-03
Box 2 Folder 10
CALS Exhibit Committee
date unknown
Box 2 Folder 11
State Fair
1992
Box 2 Folder 12
Empire Farm Days
1994
Box 2 Folder 13
Empire Farm Days
1993
Box 2 Folder 14
Empire Farm Days
1992
Box 2 Folder 15
Empire Farm Days
1991
Box 2 Folder 16
Empire Farm Days
1990
Box 2 Folder 17
State Fair: Budgets, plans, animations, telerama, staffing, Etc.
1994
Box 2 Folder 18
State Fair
1990
Box 2 Folder 19
State Fair
1989
Box 2 Folder 20
State Fair
1988
Box 2 Folder 21
State Fair
1987
Box 2 Folder 22
State Fair
1986
Box 2 Folder 23
Layout horticulture building: 4H, State Fair
date unknown
Series II. Miscellaneous Files/Reports/Proposals
Box 3 Folder 1
Save Energy/Save Dollars: A Copy of Products and Results
date unknown
Box 3 Folder 2
Save Energy/Save Dollars Slides
date unknown
Box 3 Folder 3
Publication study by J. Francis Cooper
1963-04
Box 3 Folder 4
ETV Center policies
1988-1989
Box 3 Folder 5
Ed Wright letters: (first chief engineer of the ETV Center)
1968-1969
Box 3 Folder 6
Cornell Sports Network proposal by Media Services staff
1990-06
Box 3 Folder 7
Communication perception/needs
date unknown
Scope and Contents
A study commissioned by David Watkins for a grad student in the Department of Communication Arts of the Communication Needs and Perceptions of Extension Field Staff
Box 3 Folder 8
Empire Farm Days
1995-1996
Box 3 Folder 9
MS. Distribution Center Report
1998
Box 3 Folder 10
Robert Seem committee communication needs report and notes
date unknown
Box 3 Folder 11
Telecommunications report commissioned by William Lacy, Director, Cornell Cooperative Extension
1997
Box 3 Folder 12
State of the Media Services Unit
1999-05
Box 3 Folder 13
Policies and procedures, Media Services
1975-2000
Box 3 Folder 14
Media and Technology Services self study document prepared for the departmental external review
2000-04
Box 3 Folder 15
Cornell Cooperative Extension public awareness files and products produced by Media Services
date unknown
Box 3 Folder 16
Proposal for regional training and satellite downlink sites
date unknown
Box 3 Folder 17
CCESN, Cornell Cooperative Extension Satellite Network Background/Network
date unknown
Box 3 Folder 18
Broadhead Report: Study of the Department of Communication Arts that created Media Services
1974-1975
Box 3 Folder 19
Packet: CCESN Distance Learning Report, Working with the Media, List of CCESN Sites
date unknown
Box 3 Folder 20
Media Services managers meetings
1994-1996
Box 3 Folder 21
Media Services senior staff meeting notes: Policy discussions etc.
date unknown
Series III. Annual Reports/Budget Hearing and Program Planning Materials
Box 4 Folder 1
Charge policy documents
1972-1990
Box 4 Folder 2
Description of technologies: Television, satellite, computer and the departments role for the University
1995
Box 4 Folder 3
Survey of Media Services staff: Work, job satisfaction, policy and procedures
1988
Box 4 Folder 4
Unit strategic plans
1994
Box 4 Folder 5
Cornell Cooperative Extension publications study
1992
Box 4 Folder 6
Merger attempts: Media Services and University Relations
1995-1996
Box 4 Folder 7
Cornell Communication Studies
1974-1984
Box 4 Folder 8
Program planning and budget hearing materials (1979-2000/01 FYS)
1979-2001
Box 4 Folder 9
Communication audit
1991-05-1991-11
Box 4 Folder 10
Annual Reports of the Department
1983-1984, 1986-1996
Scope and Contents
From 1995/1996 on annual reports were included in the program planning and budget conferences held with Human Ecology, Agriculture and Life Sciences and Cornell Cooperative Extension
Box 4 Folder 11
Media Services administrative committee files/meeting notes Etc.
1975-1981, 1979-1982, 1980-1986
Scope and Contents
The Administrative Committee for Media Services was created by the Broadhead Report. It consisted of the Deans of Agriculture, Human Ecology and the Director of Cornell Cooperative Extension. Meetings were called by the head of that committee but over the years were very infrequent
Series IV. Miscellaneous
Box 5 Folder 1
Media Services first computer system: Xerox Star System
1983-1984
Box 5 Folder 2
Printing reorganization
1983
Box 5 Folder 3
Workshops/training sessions by Media Services staff for Cornell Cooperative Extension and faculty
date unknown
Box 5 Folder 4
Program planning/budget hearing documents
1979-1980, 1985-1997
Box 5 Folder 5
Annual Reports
1973-1976, 1977-1985
Box 5 Folder 6
Christopher Whittle: First Director of Media Services
Box 5 Folder 7
Broadhead Report
1974-1975
Box 5 Folder 8
Cornell Cooperative Extension: Public Awareness and Marketing Campaigns, Products, Files, Organization, Training Sessions by Robert Topor, David Watkins and Bill Boldt
date unknown
Box 5 Folder 9
Cornell Cooperative Extension Associations Survey Results: Printing and Mailing Technologies by James Mason
1994-1995
Box 5 Folder 10
Cornell Cooperative Extension Associations Survey on Printing and Mailing Technologies Raw Data by County
1994-1995
Box 5 Folder 11
Slides: Update on the 80s
date unknown
Scope and Contents
Prepared by Media Services for CCE
Box 5 Folder 12
A self-study of the department's organization, services, funding issues, and relationships in preparation for an external review to be conducted
2000-04-02-2000-04-06