UCLA Film & Television Archive joins UCLA Library

The UCLA Film & Television Archive, the second-largest repository of motion pictures and broadcast programming in the U.S., is now part of the UCLA Library. The Archive, which had operated under the auspices of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, will now be more closely aligned with the UCLA Library's world-class archival and research collections; the move positions the Archive's holdings to be better integrated in instruction and research at UCLA, and it will expand access to the Archive through the Library's robust digital platforms. "The UCLA Library and the Film & Television Archive are longtime partners with a shared vision of preserving unique, historical materials and making them available to the UCLA and wider academic communities," said Ginny Steel, UCLA's Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian. "Having the Archive as part of the UCLA Library strengthens the collective impact of print, digital and audiovisual resources on teaching and learning." The Archive's administrative offices, preservation labs and collection storage vaults will remain at the Packard Humanities Institute 's Stoa in Santa Clarita, California, while the Archive Research and Study Center , located in Powell Library on the UCLA campus, will continue to serve as a campus access point to the Archive's collections.