UCLA IS Media Preservation Lab Restores Community-Based Collections
Professor Shawn VanCour leads state-of-the-art lab where students gain hands-on training and participate in projects to preserve community media histories.
Shawn VanCour
Jose Gallegos: Open Ending
Media Archival Studies grad and specialist at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and addressed the Class of 2022 at the SEIS commencement.
May Hong HaDuong: Preserving Film’s Past for Future Audiences
MIAS alumna serves the University as the director of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Joanna Smith: UCLA IS Alumna Adapts Skills to Aerospace Industry
A software configuration analyst at Northrop Grumman Corporation, Smith draws upon her wide range of library and archival experience.
UCLA IS: Corday Productions’ Gift of Vintage Video Equipment to Enhance Hands-On Learning
UCLA’s Center for Preservation of Audiovisual Heritage offers students the skills needed to enter the preservation field.
Shawn VanCour Appointed Director of the Library of Congress’ Radio Preservation Task Force
Shawn VanCour says that when writing his 2018 book, “Making Radio: Early Radio Production and the Rise of Modern Sound […]
UCLA IS to Help Preserve L.A.’s Cultural Histories with Grant From The Ahmanson Foundation
Shawn VanCour, assistant professor in the UCLA Department of Information Studies, will serve as project director in the creation of a […]