C-SPAN Unveils New Archival Website
September 17, 2009
The C-SPAN Archives has unveiled a new web site and Flash video player. It has many new features and enhanced search options. In this space we will explain many of the new features and demonstrate how to use them.
The Video Library is the entry to the vast history of public affairs events that C-SPAN has covered for the past twenty years. The collection is unrivaled in significant events that are documented in the C-SPAN video record. The indexing and now this site make this video record accessible in ways that here-to-fore were not possible.
In reviewing the significant events, do not overlook many programs that may seem less momentous, but are equally important. In covering the routine meetings, news conferences, and briefings that occur every day, C-SPAN has built a record that allows you to now go back and see what people said when few were paying attention. Barack Obama appears on a panel on cities when he was a state legislator. Nancy Pelosi can be be observed in congressional hearings when she was a junior member of Congress. Our future leaders are on the House and Senate floor and on C-SPAN call-ins daily.
We hope you are as excited about this new resource as we are in bringing it to you. It makes the work of the C-SPAN archivists real by allowing us to share our vast video resources with the public.
C-SPAN brings public affairs events to cable and satellite television on a daily basis. Now C-SPAN brings its complete archives with searchable, viewable, and shareable video. online and free to the public to use.
Explore it. Then come back to this space to learn more about the collection and how to use this site.
Tony Sanders - September 19, 2009 at 9:03 am
Thanks for making this new Website a “search friendly” experience. I’ve been searching for math-related material to show some of my high-school students (here in the DCPS) and the transcript search results are a big help. I found a couple of related video clips because of that.
Thanks to all the Web gurus at C-SPAN!
Tony Sanders
math teacher
McKinley Tech High School
Bill - October 1, 2009 at 6:54 pm
nice work, finally organized. I love you C-Span
Seren Snow - October 3, 2009 at 1:23 am
Great job! More organization, more user-friendly!
LJK - October 4, 2009 at 1:09 am
I am a dyed-in-the-wool C-SPAN junkie. A finatic! Only relatively recently did I discover the archives website as an auxiliary to the main C-SPAN site…and I love/loved it! Note the unsure tenses used there… Everything from Robert Bork to yesterday so easily viewable, so user-friendly, tech-compatible, A CINCH! Too good to be true…it’s a political junkie a bit leery of YouTube’s dream…BUT OF COURSE, THIS NEW FANCY FORMAT. Beta schmeta. The old site was FINE! Why the new format? I’m already getting dizzy looking at the main archive page. And of most concern to me, I’m already catastrophizing far less availability and a possible tech-conflict with the clips that were such a pleasure and such an ease to freely pull up and view on the old archive page. Please…give us C-SPAN die-hards the choice? I still miss the days when Real Player was the ONLY video/audio way to EASILY and predictably view C-SPAN clips for months on end, archives, etc aside…too many changes too quickly. Yes, the brave new internet world…BUT COME ON…IT’S C-SPAN…Leave the monkey business to YouTube and company.
JOE DONNELLY - October 4, 2009 at 2:47 pm
PLEASE MAKE CONNECTION MPROCEDURES CLEAR TO
Stephany - October 5, 2009 at 3:34 pm
I’ve become a cspan junkie since I became disabled. I knew how to find what I wanted. Now I’m on a learning curve with this significant update. I have a lot of time to figure this out. Once I do I’m sure I’ll love it as much as the ‘old’ site.
Charles Myers - October 8, 2009 at 5:20 pm
I bought The White House disc set. I wanted the part where L. Bush talked about the family dining room and the new china they had made. This is not on the video. How do I get it?