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Robert M. Thrush Audio/Visual Services administrative files, 1971-1984

 

Summary

Creator:
Thrush, Robert M.
Brodosi, David
University of South Florida
Abstract:
Collection comprised of USF St. Petersburg Audio/Visual Equipment Operator Robert M. Thrush's media services at USF St. Petersburg from the 1960s through 1980s.
Extent:
4 folders
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Robert M. Thrush Audio/Visual Services administrative files, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL.

Background

Scope and content:

Collection includes instructional media statistics and ledgers, correspondence, equipment research and procurement, and personnel and supervision materials. Materials show the instructional media activities at USF St. Petersburg from the late 1960s through the early 1980s.

Biographical / historical:

Detroit native Robert McIntyre Thrush moved to St. Petersburg at a young age and graduated from St. Petersburg High School in the mid-1940s. On 1 April 1968, he received an appointment as a half time Clerk II at the Extension Library on the Bay Campus (now USF St. Petersburg). Working under the supervision of Extension Librarian Osborne Gomez, Thrush coordinated audio/visual services for the young campus. By the early 1970s, he became a fulltime audio/visual technician that had the responsibility of filling student and faculty equipment requests, borrowing films and other instructional materials from the Tampa campus, and working on the Tampa campus during quarter and semester breaks. With the opening of the original Poynter Library in 1981, Thrush's work space moved from cramped quarters in 'B' Building to an area of the library specifically developed for media services. By the late 1980s, "Bob" Thrush oversaw a very active area of campus. Under the supervision of Gerald Notaro, Media Services Librarian, he became a Senior Audio/Visual Equipment Operator. He and wifeDorothy "Dot" Thrush—a longtime employee in the campus bookstore—retired from the University in1991. Subsequent Senior A/V Equipment Operators—Melissa Conlin Schultz,Jim Schnur, and David Brodosi—continued Thrush's tradition of offering high quality audio/visual services as the landscape of educational technology rapidly changed.

Access and use

Terms of access:

None. The contents of the collection may be subject to copyright. Visit the United States Copyright Office's website at http://www.copyright.gov/ for more information.

Preferred citation:

Robert M. Thrush Audio/Visual Services administrative files, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL.

Location of this collection:
140 7th Avenue South
St. Petersburg
FL
33701
USA