A Keyword Searchable Collection of Presidential Debate Video Recordings (1960-) + Searchable Video of Last Night’s Debate
Th C-SPAN Video Library is home to a collection of U.S. presidential debate recordings dating back to 1960.
These videos also let the viewer keyword search a text transcript and then view those words spoken in the video.
In addition, the C-SPAN Video Library offers a custom video clips sharing feature. You’ll need a free C-SPAN account to use this feature. Here’s a guide to using the video clips feature.
First Presidential Debate–September 29, 2020
The C-SPAN Video Library will be providing near real-time transcript search of tonight’s presidential debate.
As of today (Sep. 29) the C-SPAN Video Library offers more than 262,000 hours of video, most of it keyword searchable.
Direct to C-SPAN Video Library Presidential Debate Collection
Filed under: Libraries, News, Video Recordings
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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