[ARSCLIST] Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Audio Archive now online

[David Seubert <seubert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Department of Special Collections at the University of California 
Santa Barbara has created a digital archive of the recorded programs of 
the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI). The archive 
is located at: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/csdi/ and audio is 
available for streaming and download.

CSDI was founded by Robert Maynard Hutchins and was based in Santa 
Barbara, California, from 1959 to 1987. During that time it brought 
together many of the most capable and distinguished minds of the times 
to discuss vital issues facing American society of the day. Political 
and academic leaders, scientists, social scientists, legal scholars, 
journalists, theologians, labor and community leaders focused on topics 
such as peace and war, democracy, dissent, community action, ecology and 
the environment, elections and the electoral process, immigration, 
international relations, law and order, the media, race and ethnicity, 
and religion. Prominent participants included Senator Alan Cranston, 
Upton Sinclair, Milton Friedman, Mortimer Adler, Cesar Chavez, Aldous 
Huxley, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Sander Vanocur, and 
Gunner Myrdal among many others.

During its nearly thirty-year history the Center recorded a large 
portion of its discussions and selected material was edited into topical 
programs for radio broadcast and public distribution. Thanks to donors 
Neal Linson, Ceil Pulitzer, and Stanley Sheinbaum, over 700 topical 
programs (around 600 hours of material) originally produced by the 
Center have been digitized by Safe Sound Archive and an initial 
selection of 250 programs has been made available online by the UCSB 
Libraries. Other tapes recorded by the Center are also being preserved 
and their archives are held by the UCSB Libraires.

David Seubert

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David Seubert, Curator
Performing Arts Collection
Davidson Library
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010
Tel: 805-893-5444 Fax: 805-893-5749
seubert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/pa/