Innovation in the Open University Library: the Interactive Open Learning Centre and Media Archive

Abstract

The Interactive Open Learning Centre and Media Archive at the Open University Library is a collection of OU‐produced audio‐visual materials. The archive is being enhanced by the cross‐campus provision of online access to a showcase of locally‐ and externally‐produced multimedia software, and (as part of Carnegie Mellon University's Informedia project) by the creation of a automatically‐indexed collection of digital OU TV broadcasts. The OU plans to create a digital archive not just of its video materials, but also of its copyright photographs and printed course materials, as it works towards the establishment of a hybrid library.

Citation

van der Zwan, R. and Whitsed, N. (1997), "Innovation in the Open University Library: the Interactive Open Learning Centre and Media Archive", VINE, Vol. 27 No. 3, pp. 25-29. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb040640