What do you do when your studio does not work? What are the behind the scenes of troubleshooting technology? How do you pack and ship heavy audiovisual equipment? I learned all this and more during my internship! As an on-campus graduate student obtaining my Master’s in Library and Information Studies, I was placed at the … Continue reading Trial and 404 Error: PBPF EBSCO Fellow Shandi Burrows’ Experience Digitizing at the University of Alabama Center for Public Television and Radio

What happens when Library and Information Science (LIS) students from around the country travel to one of the U.S.’s top archival audio and moving image digitization sites? An awesome time and lots of learning! Fellows practice cleaning decks. (Photo courtesy of Jackie Jay) Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellowship (PBPF) Fellows from around the country traveled to … Continue reading PBPF In Philadelphia: Immersion Week 2022

GBH on behalf of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting is pleased to introduce our 2022-2023 cohort of fellows for the Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellowship (PBPF), a project funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Minow Family Foundation. The PBPF supports students enrolled in non-specialized graduate programs to pursue digital preservation … Continue reading Announcing Our 2022-2023 PBPF Fellows

The Collection:  I am one of the American Archives of Public Broadcasting’s (AAPB) fellows working in conjunction with EBSCO and the University of Alabama. While I’m currently a graduate student at the University of Alabama, I’ll graduate this May with my Masters in Library and Information Science and a certificate in Archival studies. I was elated when I first heard … Continue reading Voices from the Archive: Digitizing at PBS North Carolina as an EBSCO Fellow

Being a Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellow has been one of the greatest experiences of my life. I will be forever grateful for the experience I gained in part by GBH and the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB). Doing audiovisual archive work during the COVID-19 pandemic has been anything but easy. I was placed at the University … Continue reading Voices from the Field: PBPF Elizabeth Meads’ Experience at the University of Alabama Center for Public Television and Radio

We are excited to announce the addition of materials from KERA to the AAPB! A community-supported public media organization based in Dallas, Texas, KERA has operated since 1960, serving North Texas with programming that reflects the spirit and diversity of the region it serves. Content created by KERA often focused on underrepresented communities often neglected … Continue reading As Told From the Archives: KERA on the AAPB

Newly launched in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting is the Friday Night Jazz with Reuben Jackson Collection, featuring 145 three-hour programs from the popular Vermont Public Radio (VPR) weekly series, with 17 programs selected for online access by the host himself -- music critic, poet, and jazz curator: Reuben Jackson. Covering the years 2012, … Continue reading New AAPB Collection Features Programs from the Vermont Public Radio series ‘Friday Night Jazz with Reuben Jackson’

The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) has launched a new collection of documentaries and interviews produced for Seattle public television station KCTS by the award-winning documentarian and producer Jean Walkinshaw. The Jean Walkinshaw Collection includes 44 documentaries, short programs, personal profiles that find the extraordinary in the ordinary, and raw interviews. The collection covers … Continue reading AAPB Launches a New Collection of Public Television Materials Produced by the Award-Winning Filmmaker Jean Walkinshaw