Beverly Hills : Tapes of PBS Shows at Library

More than 200 hours of 20 classic Public Broadcasting Service television series are available on videotape at the Beverly Hills Public Library.

The Friends of the Beverly Hills Public Library, a community support group, purchased the collection from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation of Chicago, which makes the collection available to public libraries at a 90% discount. The group paid $6,000 for the tapes.

Among the series in the collection are “Alistair Cooke’s America,” “I, Claudius,” “Nova,” “American Playhouse,” “Vietnam: A Television History” and “A Walk Through the 20th Century with Bill Moyers.”