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Ron Renchler
Director, Library Communications
ronr@uoregon.edu
They're all part of UO Channel (http://media.uoregon.edu/), a newly launched service offering streamed video and audio programs that reflect the quality, creativity, and diversity of academic and cultural life at the University of Oregon.
A link to UO Channel is available at the end of the Highlights section of the UO homepage (http://www.uoregon.edu/), or it can be accessed and bookmarked directly at (http://media.uoregon.edu/). The UO Channel allows anyone with an Internet connection and free media player software to view dozens of UO lectures, interviews, and performances on their computers whenever and wherever they want. Podcasts and audio-only streaming are also available.
President Frohnmayer himself initiated the development of the new service to give wider exposure to the university's public programming, much of which is generated through public lectures and artistic performances. Many of these programs are videotaped and converted to digital files by the UO Libraries' Media Services. The files are then posted to the UO Channel, where video streaming technology allows them to be viewed anytime, anywhere.
"The UO regularly hosts some of the world's foremost thinkers and speakers on issues of national and international significance," Frohnmayer says. "The UO Channel takes advantage of current technologies to make these presentations available to a global audience while showcasing an important part of academic life at the University of Oregon."
In addition to lectures by David Lynch and Ngugi wa Thiong'o, the UO Channel offers streamed video presentations by many well-known authors, scholars, and public figures such as feminist writer bell hooks; former South Korean prime minister Lee Hong-Koo; Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author Louis Menand; two noted experts on terrorism, Loretta Napoleoni and Robert Pape; and author and activist Wilma Mankiller, who currently occupies the Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics at the UO.
Other video programs center on cultural and academic life on campus, including a performance by the UO's Students of the Indian Subcontinent, interviews with student winners of the Undergraduate Library Research Awards, and President Frohnmayer's recent State of the University address.
Fresh content will be continually added to the UO Channel as new programs become available. All programming will be archived for on-demand viewing and will also become part of Scholars' Bank, an institutional repository for UO research, publications, and supporting materials in digital form (see https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/dspace/).
The UO Channel was made possible through the cooperative efforts of the UO Libraries, the Computing Center, and the Office of Public and Media Relations. Streaming Media Services, part of the library's Media Services, took the lead in designing and implementing the UO Channel.
For more information, contact Andrew Bonamici, associate university librarian for instructional services at (541) 346-1459, bonamici@uoregon.edu. Members of the university community who would like to propose or submit video content for the UO Channel can submit their suggestions using an online form at the UO Channel website.