Follow the incredible story of the Aleuts' decades-long struggle for human and civil rights in this week's featured Vision Maker Media film, "Aleut Story." In 1942, as World War II reached Alaska, Aleut Americans were transferred to government camps 1,500 miles away, where an estimated 10 percent perished. The surviving Aleuts eventually joined Japanese Americans … Continue reading Forty Years, Forty Films, Forty Weeks: Aleut Story
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Access to Historical Records – Archival Projects Webinars Announced
Attention, public media organizations! Check out this upcoming digitization grant opportunity from the National Historical Records and Publications Commission (NHPRC).
Juno and Peaceful Uses of Space
This post was written by Sadina Shawver, student at Simmons College and intern at the AAPB. Juno’s recent arrival at the planet Jupiter is just one more stop upon a decades long mission to understand our expanding universe by first understanding our own solar system. In the Spring of 1962, Seattle, Washington’s World’s Fair hosted … Continue reading Juno and Peaceful Uses of Space
Thanks to the contributors of the Public Broadcasting Preservation Scholarship
This post was written by Casey E. Davis, AAPB Project Manager at WGBH, for WGBH's Public Broadcasting Preservation Scholarship crowdfunding campaign. In April and May of 2016, WGBH on behalf of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) led a crowdfunding campaign to fund the Public Broadcasting Preservation Scholarship. The Public Broadcasting Preservation Scholarship will … Continue reading Thanks to the contributors of the Public Broadcasting Preservation Scholarship
AAPB NDSR Application TweetUp – Summary & Storify
On Monday, we hosted a TweetUp under the hashtag #ndsrapps to discuss the NDSR application process. Current and past residents, AAPB NDSR host mentors, and a/v archives professionals convened to answer questions from prospective residents and talk about the NDSR experience. For prospective applicants, we’d like to highlight some of the thoughts and advice that … Continue reading AAPB NDSR Application TweetUp – Summary & Storify
AAPB NDSR Host Institutions & Call for Resident Applicants
We are extremely excited to announce that after some extremely difficult decision-making among a number of great projects, we have selected the Host Institutions for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting National Digital Stewardship Residency Project, and are opening up the period for Resident Applications! In April of 2015, the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) … Continue reading AAPB NDSR Host Institutions & Call for Resident Applicants
Content in Motion: AAPB attends EUscreen 2015 Conference
Last week, AAPB Project Manager Casey Davis had the honor of attending and presenting at the 2015 EUscreen conference in Warsaw, Poland. For those of you who aren't familiar with it, the EUscreen initiative is similar to the AAPB: EUscreen is a consortium of archives -- from broadcasters to academic institutions -- and offers free … Continue reading Content in Motion: AAPB attends EUscreen 2015 Conference
Host applications are in!
We had an amazing response to our call for organizations to host AAPB National Digital Stewardship Residents! By the time we closed applications on December 7, 24 public media-related organizations in total had proposed digital preservation projects to be completed through the AAPB NDSR program. If you're curious about the details of how hosts will … Continue reading Host applications are in!
List of Early Public Television Content: An NET Project Update
We are excited to post lists of NET Series Titles and Individual Program Titles on the AAPB website, as part of the National Educational Television (NET) Collection Catalog Project, funded by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). To read more about the history and significance of NET, public television’s first national programming network, check … Continue reading List of Early Public Television Content: An NET Project Update
Happy Halloween from the AAPB!
This Halloween, dead things are coming back to life – dead (or obsolete) media, in our case, but that doesn’t mean we’re ruling out the other kinds of spooky either. Keep reading for ghostly Halloween highlights from our Online Reading Room! North Carolina Now Episode from 10/31/1995 Maybe you’ve heard the one about the ghostly … Continue reading Happy Halloween from the AAPB!