The AAPB team is excited to share our Cataloging Guidelines. For those of you who aren't versed in librarian speak, cataloging is the process of creating quality metadata for materials, such as those in the AAPB collection, in order to improve searching and discoverability -- a process beyond basic inventory level gathering. Information typically captured … Continue reading AAPB Cataloging Guidelines Available
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Season’s Greetings and Happy New Year!
The AAPB Team wished you and yours a very happy holiday season, and a wonderful new year! Thanks so much to everyone who has contributed and supported this important project. We've really enjoyed working with you so far, and are excited to continue our work on into the future!
President Johnson’s Thanksgiving Speech, 1963
Happy Thanksgiving! We hope everyone’s celebrations will be wonderful this year. In remembrance of Thanksgivings past, we want to share this historic audio clip with you today. On November 28th 1963, newly sworn in president Lyndon B. Johnson, delivered a speech honoring president John F. Kennedy, who had died just a week earlier. His message … Continue reading President Johnson’s Thanksgiving Speech, 1963
Interim Access Portal
The American Archive of Public Broadcasting is pleased to announce our new (interim) discovery portal to access inventory records. These records were created during the CPB-funded and WGBH-managed American Archive Content Inventory Project (AACIP), an inventory effort to gather item-level PBCore data from legacy at-risk audiovisual assets obtained from public media stations across the nation: … Continue reading Interim Access Portal
Don’t Forget: Meet-up Wednesday at 2pm EST
This Wednesday, September 17th, we're hosting our third American Archive Meet-up. It's going to be a great discussion, that you won't want to miss! Laura Sampson will be sharing the amazing Station's Archived Memories (SAM) project at Rocky Mountain PBS. We'll also be providing a virtual walkthrough of the Archival Management System (AMS), which stations are … Continue reading Don’t Forget: Meet-up Wednesday at 2pm EST
3rd American Archive Meet-up: September 17 at 2pm EST
Don't miss our third American Archive Meet-up! We're excited to continue this series of informal video conference calls, which provide participants a venue to share their experiences and challenges, as well as ask the AAPB team any questions. Our next meet-up will take place September 17th at 2pm EST. For the first half of this meet-up, Laura Sampson … Continue reading 3rd American Archive Meet-up: September 17 at 2pm EST
Don’t Forget: Meet-up on Thursday at 2pm EST
This Thursday, August 7th, we'll be hosting our second American Archive Meet-up. You don't want to miss this! New York Public Radio's Andy Lanset will be speaking, and then we'll open the meeting up to discussion sharing the born-digital challenges we're all dealing with. Hope you'll join us! If you're interested in joining the meeting, we're … Continue reading Don’t Forget: Meet-up on Thursday at 2pm EST
2nd American Archive Meet-up: August 7 at 2pm EST
On July 9th, we held our first American Archive Meet-up. Thanks to all of the participating stations and organizations who made it such a success! We're excited to continue this series of informal video conference calls, intended to provide a space for stations from across the country to connect, share experiences, and ask questions. Our … Continue reading 2nd American Archive Meet-up: August 7 at 2pm EST
Meet Sadie Roosa, our new American Archive team member
Hi! I'm Sadie Roosa, and I'm very excited to join the American Archive team here at WGBH. I've already met many of you before, through emails and phone calls, when I was helping to wrap up the Content Inventory Project. In the meantime, I worked on several other WGBH projects, and got to manage the … Continue reading Meet Sadie Roosa, our new American Archive team member
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