Rovi and Michigan State University Establish Largest U.S. Library Media Collection
October 19 2015 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Rovi Donates Rare Archive of CDs, Blu-Rays,
DVDs and Video Games Spanning Two Decades of Entertainment
Rovi Corporation (NASDAQ: ROVI) and Michigan State University
(MSU) today announced that Rovi has donated a rare and valuable
media collection to MSU. This donation establishes the largest
media collection held by a library in the United States. The new
“Rovi Media Collection” is comprised of close to one million CDs,
Blu-Rays, DVDs, and video games, and is now publicly available
through the MSU library and interlibrary loan services.
“We are honored to be the proprietors of the largest media
archive in the country, which has quickly become the most requested
material in the Michigan inter-library loan system,” said Clifford
H. Haka, director of libraries, Michigan State University. “The
‘Rovi Media Collection’ dramatically enhances our teaching
curriculum and research within the College of Music, popular
culture and film studies, and an emerging gaming program.
Assembling a collection of such cultural and historic importance
and overall magnitude would simply not have been feasible with our
current budget. On behalf of all of our users at MSU and across
Michigan, we thank Rovi for this generous gift.”
“Rovi’s extensive collection of entertainment media has enabled
the cataloging, metadata tagging, and editorial description of
numerous albums, artists, movies, TV shows, and video games for our
customers worldwide,” said Kathy Weidman, senior vice president and
general manager, metadata, Rovi. “Our donation to Michigan State
University marks the passing of these materials for use in an
educational capacity, while also providing accessibility to the
general public. It is extremely gratifying to establish the largest
collection of entertainment content in a U.S. library and allow
future generations to access and enjoy these wonderful media
artifacts from the past two decades.”
As a result of Rovi’s meticulous efforts to catalog and ingest
metadata about entertainment media products for its customers, the
company’s archive has grown exponentially over the past 20 plus
years. As one of the nation’s top 50 libraries with more than five
million volumes held, MSU will manage the on-going care, storage,
and maintenance of the physical collection.
The archive consists of CDs that have been commercially
available in the U.S. as well as a significant percentage of
releases imported from Europe. The DVD collection, which was
started the year DVDs were introduced to the market, similarly
represents the vast majority of commercially released DVDs in the
U.S. The games archive focuses primarily on console games and PC
games, beginning in 1999, and includes a number of titles that date
back to the early 80s. The "Rovi Media Collection" also includes a
catalog of metadata elements consisting of nearly 20 million data
points. Today, Rovi continues to expand its metadata business and
is a leading resource for international metadata with availability
in more than 70 countries.
Michigan State University will host a ribbon cutting ceremony to
mark the official opening of the "Rovi Media Collection" on Monday,
Oct. 19, 2015 at 2 p.m. in the West Wing of the MSU Main Library.
Media are welcome to attend the free event. A reception will follow
the ceremony and will be held in the Green Room, West Wing, Fourth
Floor.
About Rovi Corporation
Rovi is leading the way to a more personalized entertainment
experience. The company’s pioneering guides, data and
recommendations continue to drive program search and navigation on
millions of devices across the globe. With a new generation of
cloud-based discovery capabilities and emerging solutions for
interactive advertising and audience analytics, Rovi is enabling
premier brands worldwide to increase their reach, drive consumer
satisfaction and create a better entertainment experience across
multiple screens. Rovi holds over 5,000 issued or pending patents
worldwide and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Discover
more about Rovi at Rovicorp.com.
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Rovi CorporationStacey Hurwitz,
617-710-9171Stacey.Hurwitz@rovicorp.comorMichigan State
UniversityKristen Parker,
517-353-8942kristen.parker@cabs.msu.edu
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