BUFVC (British Universities Film & Video Council)
The British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC) is a representative membership organisation for universities and colleges in the UK. It is part-funded by HEFCE via the JISC and promotes moving image and related media for UK higher education and research. The BUFVC delivers a range of high quality specialist services to its members and some web content for use by the wider community outside BUFVC membership.
What we can do for you
BUFVC case study At the heart of the BUFVC is an Information Service which carries specialist information relating to moving pictures and sound which are valued in learning, teaching and scholarship. Staff employed in BUFVC member institutions enjoy the benefit of use of the Information Service, BUFVC publications (such as Viewfinder magazine, the BUFVC's quarterly journal), the Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching (TRILT), the Off-Air Television Recording Back-Up Service and conferences, screenings and events.
The wider online community may, without BUFVC membership, make use of the BUFVC's Researcher's Guide Online, the Moving Image Gateway, HERMES, Newsfilm Online pilot content and the British Universities Newsreel Database.
BUFVC services
Links to some 900 reviewed sites on the world wide web which are generally accessible and deliver high quality moving image and sound-related content and services.Distributed widely.
(BUND) A database listing some 175,000 records of British newsreel and cinemagazine stories produced and distributed during the period 1911-1983. Also carries some 80,000 digitised script items and links to some 40,000 newsreel stories via British Pathe. Distributed widely.
A guide to some 640 film, television, radio and related documentation collections in the UK. Distributed widely.
A database of over 25,000 audiovisual materials is current UK distribution. Distributed widely.
The pilot of this JISC Digitisation project, managed by the BUFVC, includes over 50 newsfilm clips from ITN/Reuters which can be downloaded for local reuse.
The only online database delivering comprehensive television and radio listings information for learning teaching and research post transmission. TRILT also delivers data 10 days in advance of transmission with personal e-mail alerts for particular subject-related content coming up in the broadcast schedules. Available to staff in BUFVC member institutions only.
Databases of the TV Times 1955-1985 and the documentary series This Week, delivered on behalf of Bournemouth University. Available to Athens users and BUFVC members only.
BUFVC retains some 44,000 hours of UK television per annum and it can supply, against requests, copies of these programmes to members which are ERA licence-holding bodies. Copies may be delivered on VHS, DVD, and burned-in CD as QuickTime or MediaPlayer files. This service will shortly move to online booking (through TRILT) and delivery of television content.
BUFVC's one-day need-to-know courses are well regarded and open to all-comers - with discount rates to staff in BUFVC member institutions. Courses offered include Copyright Clearance for Print, Broadcast and Multimedia Production, Encoding Digital Video for Network Delivery, Shooting with DV and Finding and Using Audiovisual Media in further and Higher Education.
BUFVC's annual conference and related events offer an opportunity to catch up with the latest initiatives and developments in the use of time-based media for learning teaching and research.
BUFVC undertakes confidential studies and reports under contract on behalf of institutions requiring external advice relating to the development of the use of moving image content, archives, libraries and services.