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The Audiovisual Materials series provides an interesting mix of information resources which supplement and further elucidate the other major series included in the 1994 accession. The audio cassette recordings of oral interviews of Dr. Crosby, and of her friend and colleague, Isabelle Lockhard,(conducted by Schneider) provide some evidence of Crosby's personality not often revealed in other sources of the Biographical Materials series. Also, the recording of an interview of Crosby by WUOM (a campus radio station) represents perhaps the only instance in the collection in which Crosby, in her own words, describes how she viewed her role as a woman in a male-dominated field and her opinions regarding how much gender discrimination she may have faced. Similarly, an audio recording (3 cassettes) of a classroom lecture conducted by Crosby in 1955 offers the only real evidence in the collection of Crosby's vaunted teaching ability. The video tapes included in this series serve to further elucidate the Research series by capturing Crosby in action in the latter phase of her career conducting clinical experiments. Also included is a video tape of the award ceremony in which Crosby received the National Medal of Science from President Carter in 1980.