As seen on TV and in the archive: A comparison of television shows in the Library of Congress Online Catalog, YouTube, and the Internet Archive

The objective of this study is to compare the comprehensiveness of the television collections of a traditional archive, the Library of Congress Online Catalog, and video-sharing websites, YouTube and the Internet Archive. Content analysis was used to compare the collections and descriptions of U.S. television episodes. The collections were compared based on the comprehensiveness of genres and time, as well as the type and degree of descriptions. This study will build upon other research that compared YouTube to traditional archives. It will also provide further information on the similarities and differences between video-sharing websites and traditional archives by comparing three collections that have not been empirically studied before.Master of Science in Library Scienc