Media Services Audio and Video Recordings, 1963 - 2018

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Summary

Creator:
Duke University. Auxiliary Services. Media Services
Abstract:
Media Services (also referred to as Duke Studios) provided broadcast quality media production services to all parts of the Duke University community. Its services included video and audio production and post-production (including event documentation), project design, production equipment rentals, tape duplication, custom CDs and DVDs, and computer graphics and animation. Collection includes audio and video recordings of campus events, programming produced for various university offices and departments, and musical recordings. Campus events include basketball, football, the inaugurations of presidents Richard Brodhead, Keith Brodie, and Nannerl Keohane, dedication of the Doris Duke Memorial, the retirement and funeral of Terry Sanford, events related to September 11, 2001, a remembrance of Benjamin N. Duke, and commencement ceremonies. Authors, scholars, and other notable people represented include John Hope Franklin, Jesse Jackson, Reynolds Price, Ronald Reagan, Elie Wiesel, Billy Graham, C. D. Wright, Gerald Barrax, Elizabeth Cox, Tim McLaurin, Eric Meyers, Orrin Pilkey, and Alex Roland. Musical recordings include the Duke University Concert Band, Dan Locklair, and 1980s rock band the X-Teens.
Extent:
40 Linear Feet
Language:
English
Collection ID:
UA.10.03.0003
University Archives Record Group:
10 -- Executive VP and Treasurer & Administration (Business and Finance)
10 -- Executive VP and Treasurer & Administration (Business and Finance) > 03 -- Administration

Background

Scope and content:

Collection includes audio and video recordings of campus events, programming produced for various university offices and departments, and musical recordings. Campus events include basketball, football, the inaugurations of presidents Richard Brodhead, Keith Brodie, and Nannerl Keohane, dedication of the Doris Duke Memorial, the retirement and funeral of Terry Sanford, events related to September 11, 2001, a remembrance of Benjamin N. Duke, and commencement ceremonies. Authors, scholars, and other notable people represented include John Hope Franklin, Jesse Jackson, Reynolds Price, Ronald Reagan, Elie Wiesel, Billy Graham, C. D. Wright, Gerald Barrax, Elizabeth Cox, Tim McLaurin, Eric Meyers, Orrin Pilkey, and Alex Roland. Musical recordings include the Duke University Concert Band, Dan Locklair, and 1980s rock band the X-Teens.

Biographical / historical:

Media Services (also referred to as Duke Studios) provided broadcast quality media production services to all parts of the Duke University community. Duke Studios was established in 1980 as an audio production facility in the Biddle Building on East Campus. In 1989, it moved to the Bryan Center on West Campus. It has expanded its services to include video and audio production and post-production (including event documentation), project design, production equipment rentals, tape duplication, custom CDs and DVDs, and computer graphics and animation.

Media Services was formerly known as Technical Services and was a division of Auxiliary Services. Media Services and Technical Services later became two separate departments within Event Management, a Division of Auxiliary Services. Technical Services provides technical support services including audio-visual rentals, sound reinforcement, and audio-visual maintenance and support in many campus facilities. Technical Services assists departments and student organizations throughout the Duke campus including Duke Athletics, academic classes and meetings, student organized bands and speakers, and sound systems for University-wide events such as Graduation and Convocation. Duke Media Services closed in 2020.

Acquisition information:
The Media Services Audio and Video Recordings was received by the University Archives as transfers in 1989-2025, accession numbers UA89-0059, UA93-144, UA94-136, UA96-115, UA97-6, UA97-57, UA2003-20, UA2003-23, UA2005-14, UA2005-45, UA2009-0026, UA2009-0035, UA2011-0007, UA2014-0018, UA2022-0042, and UA2025-0041.
Processing information:

Processed by Dean Jeffrey

Completed December 27, 2005, updated by Kimberly Sims in Sept. 2009, Oct. 2011, updated by Matthew Schaefer March 2014.

Updating for date clean-up and adding unique identifiers , Tracy M. Jackson March, November 2018.

Accession UA2022-0042 added by April Blevins, August 2022.

Accession UA2025-0041 added by April Blevins, October 2025.

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Copyright for Official University records is held by Duke University; all other copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

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[Identification of item], Media Services Audio and Video Recordings, Duke University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

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