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College of Business Videotapes, 1983-2005

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Oregon State University. College of Business.
Title
College of Business Videotapes
Dates
1983-2005 (inclusive)
1987-2001 (bulk)
Quantity
3.50 cubic feet, including 120 VHS tapes, 13 Betacam SP cassettes, 2 1-inch Type C open reel tapes, 1 DVCPro tape, and 1 Umatic, (4 boxes)
62 Mbytes, (9 files)
Collection Number
FV 194
Summary
The College of Business Videotapes principally document the activities of, and coursework related to, the Austin Family Business Program, which was founded at Oregon State University in 1985. The collection consists of recordings of events and trainings sponsored by the program as well as promotional materials used for program outreach and third party productions relevant to the subject of family businesses. The collection likewise includes recordings of Family Business Management course lectures offered to distance students by OSU Business professor Pat Frishkoff from 1997-2000.
Repository
Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives Research Center
Special Collections and Archives Research Center
121 The Valley Library
Oregon State University
Corvallis OR
97331-4501
Telephone: 5417372075
Fax: 5417378674
scarc@oregonstate.edu
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

Commerce instruction was offered at Oregon State University from the time of its founding in 1868. A Department of Commerce was established at OSU in 1900 and the School of Commerce was formed as a professional school in 1908. However, the School of Commerce was transferred to the University of Oregon in 1932 as part of the consolidation of academic programs at the campuses of the Oregon State System of Higher Education. A business administration degree was restored at Oregon State in 1943 and a School of Business and Technology was established in 1947. In 1983, the name of the school was changed to the College of Business.

The Family Business Program was founded at Oregon State University in 1985 and was renamed the Austin Family Business Program in 1994 to honor endowment of the program by Ken and Joan Austin. The program fosters healthy family businesses through innovative tools and hands-on learning oppportunities.

Ken Austin graduated from Oregon State College in 1954 with a degree in industrial administration and later founded the prominent dental equipment company A-dec with his wife, Joan, in Newberg, Oregon. He was also selected as the first Benny Beaver mascot in spring 1952.

Patricia A. Frishkoff was a faculty member in the College of Business from 1978 to her retirement in 2002, and also the founding director of what came to be known as the Austin Family Business Program.

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Content Description

The College of Business Videotapes are organized into three series and consist primarily of VHS tapes but also include a smaller quantity of Betacam SP, DVCPro and Umatic tapes, as well as 1-inch Type C open reel tapes and a small quantity of born digital records.

The bulk of the collection is described in Series 1, which focuses on the activities of the Austin Family Business Program. Included in that series are recordings of multiple awards ceremonies and other gatherings - including lectures, panel discussions and conferences - that were sponsored by the program. The series also features promotional videos created to boost the profile of the program and to highlight the successes of specific family businesses across Oregon. Likewise incorporated into the series are an assortment of resource materials collected by the program that focus on particular aspects of establishing and growing a family business. Nine PowerPoint presentations created for use at a 2004 program retreat are also a component of the series. These PowerPoint files have been migrated off of physical media and are available in the SCARC reading room or upon patron request.

Series 2 consists of recorded class lectures given in 1997, 1998 and 2000 by OSU Business professor Pat Frishkoff as a component of Family Business Management (BA 463/563), a distance education course. Series 3 is comprised of assorted recordings collected by the College of Business including dubs of films produced by Alberta Agriculture and advertisements for Columbia Sportswear and Widmer Brothers Brewing.

All of the VHS tapes described in this collection are available for patron viewing within the SCARC reading room. With the exception of the PowerPoint files referenced above, all other materials in the collection require migration to a digital format prior to patron use and are not immediately available.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

College of Business Videotapes (FV 194), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

The collection is organized into three series: 1. Austin Family Business Program, 1986-2005; 2. Business Administration Distance Education Courses, 1996-2000; and 3. Other Recordings, 1983-2002. Items are numbered and stored according to format, but described within each series in chronological order.

Acquisition Information

Videotapes were transferred to the University Archives in several accessions between 1997 and 2002. Another large accession was transferred to the Special Collections and Archives Research Center in 2013 and 2014.

Future Additions

Additions to the collection are expected.

Processing Note

Four videotapes that had been assigned unique identifiers in the 2010 version of this finding aid have been renumbered as a result of the full processing of this collection. Fifteen duplicate videotapes were removed from this collection as a result of full processing.

Related Materials

The College of Business Records (RG 122) and the College of Business Photographs (P 194) include additional materials pertaining to the Austin Family Business Program and the award ceremonies featured in these videotapes. Other videotapes pertaining to the Austin Family Business Program and the College of Business are part of the University Advancement Videotapes (FV 210). An oral history interview with Ken Austin is also included in the Oregon State University Sesquicentennial Oral History Collection (OH 26).

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Detailed Description of the Collection

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Subject Terms

  • Business education--Oregon--Corvallis.
  • Family-owned business enterprises--Oregon.

Personal Names

  • Austin, Ken, 1931-
  • Frishkoff, Patricia A.

Corporate Names

  • Oregon State University--Alumni and alumnae.
  • Oregon State University--Faculty.
  • Oregon State University--Students.
  • Oregon State University. College of Business

Form or Genre Terms

  • Born digital.
  • Video recordings (physical artifacts)

Other Creators

  • Personal Names

    • Brothers, Joyce. (creator)
    • Frishkoff, Patricia A. (creator)
    • Ward, John L., 1945- (creator)
    • Zvonkovic, Anisa M. (creator)

    Corporate Names

    • Oregon State University. Austin Family Business Program. (creator)
    • Oregon State University. University Advancement. (creator)

Finding Aid Authors: Finding aid prepared by Elizabeth Nielsen and updated by Chris Petersen..
2019

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