From San Jose to Baltimore: Bringing the Academic Film Archive to Johns Hopkins
Description
The Academic Film Archive of North America is devoted to preserving and celebrating vintage, 16-mm educational films. The vast collection—some 7,600 films strong, spanning topics from ancient Greece, comets, Shakespeare, and the Ice Age to canoe-building and silk-weaving—was acquired by the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries in Fall 2022, donated by Geoff Alexander, the archive's longtime director and CEO.
Hopkins at Home presents a virtual panel discussion featuring Geoff Alexander, AFANA founder and CEO; Donald Juedes, librarian for Film and Media Studies at the Sheridan Libraries; and Liz Mengel, associate dean for collections and academic services at the Sheridan Libraries. Learn about Alexander's nationwide hunt to find a new home for his archive, the collection's journey from San Jose, California to Baltimore, and how the films are currently being processed and prepared for research use by Hopkins faculty and students.
Who can attend?
- General public
- Faculty
- Staff
- Students
