University of Pennsylvania. School of Arts and Sciences. Computing Facilities and Services. Multimedia Educational Technology Services.

The Multimedia and Educational Technology Services of the University of Pennsylvania was originally a language lab of the College of Arts and Sciences of the University. The lab changed its name to Language Laboratory in 1965 and the material it used gradually expanded from the single kind of sound tapes to multimedia. In 1976, the lab was renamed the Audio Video Center and in 1992, assumed its current name.

The Memories Project is an oral history project initiated by the Audio Visual Center in 1987. The project had two initial goals: to privide an opportunity for the Center's staff "to develop their video production skills" and "to create a record of Pennsylvania memories which would become part of the University Archives." With these goals in mind, the staff selected prominent alumni, faculty and staff, and invited them for interviews to recall their experiences at the University. As a result, the project conducted over one hundred videotaped interviews. When common themes became apparent among many interviews, the staff, after some research, produced short, entertaining video presentations around five topics. These included Undergraduate Memories: 1911-1942; Pennsylvania women; the Depression years; World War II; and Rowbottom. In addition, the Center transcribed all the interviews and saved the transcripts on its computer system under the code name "MAP" (Memories Access Program).

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