C-SPAN - Other C-SPAN Services

Other C-SPAN Services

C-SPAN offers a number of public services related to the network's public affairs programming. A free membership service for teachers named C-SPAN Classroom was begun by C-SPAN during July 1987, offering help for using C-SPAN resources for classes or research. During November 1993, C-SPAN began the C-SPAN School Bus, which travels around the U.S. educating the public about government and politics using C-SPAN resources. The bus also records video footage of the places that it visits. A new version of the bus, the C-SPAN Digital Bus was initiated during 2010, introducing the public to C-SPAN's enhanced digital products. C-SPAN has also initiated three Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) to travel the country and record unique political and historical stories, with each vehicle containing production and web-based technologies to produce on-the-spot content.

C-SPAN also has published ten books based on its programming, containing material both original and taken from interview transcripts. These include five books drawn from the former Booknotes program: Booknotes: Life Stories, Booknotes: On American Character, Booknotes: Stories from American History,Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing and the Power of Ideas, the latter a compilation of short monologues taken from the transcripts of Lamb’s interviews, and a companion book to the series on Tocqueville, Traveling Tocqueville's America: A Tour Book. The first published C-SPAN book, C-SPAN: America's Town Hall, was published in 1988. Since then C-SPAN has published four more books: Gavel to Gavel: A C-SPAN Guide to Congress, Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb?, a guide to the grave sites of U.S. presidents, Abraham Lincoln - Great American Historians On Our Sixteenth President, a collection of essays based on C-SPAN interviews with American historians, and The Supreme Court, which features biographies and interviews with past Supreme Court judges together with commentary from legal experts.