History of video center

Opened after the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, the Video and Resource Center was originally called the Diocesan Resource Library.

Former director Betsy Rowe, now diocesan director of Formation for Ministry, remembers when the center stocked books and record albums, eight- and 16-millimeter film projectors, films, and "oodles of filmstrips" -- the kind with accompanying audiocassettes that beeped when it was time to advance the frame.

When she took the job of coordinator, Ms. Taaffe changed the name of the center in order to deflect calls from people looking for books.

However, she noted, the Pastoral Center is home to the Lull Library, a collection of books for employee use. The collection was donated by the family of Mark Lull, a youth minister of the Albany Diocese who died suddenly. Ms. Taaffe is in the process of cataloguing it. (KB)

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