For the Spring 2008 semester I am working on digitizing and archiving video of speeches presented to the Iowa City Foreign Relations council by speakers ranging from presidential candidates to writers in residence as part of the Writers' Workshop. The speeches are recorded and rebroadcast on the radio and television.
The collection consists of about 80 speeches recorded on DVD's, dating from 2004 to the present. There are older speeches recorded on SVHS tape. I hope to digitize and archive the speeches already in DVD format by the end of the semester.
Information about the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council can be found here:
http://international.uiowa.edu/outreach/community/icfrc/
