CLIR Recordings at Risk - Fourth Round Opens May 2nd Collaborate with American Archive of Public Broadcasting on Digitization Grant Proposal Now in its fourth call for the Recordings at Risk grant program, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is accepting applications from collecting institutions for the digital reformatting of audio and audiovisual … Continue reading Digitization Grant Opportunity from Council on Library and Information Resources!
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Dena Schulze, Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellow at WUNC
My name is Dena Schulze and I am the Public Broadcasting Preservation fellow partnered with WUNC radio station in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I graduate in May from the Archives and Records Management track in the Library Science School at UNC. It has been my privilege … Continue reading Dena Schulze, Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellow at WUNC
The National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB) Collection Now Available on AAPB
The National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB) Collection, now available on the AAPB website, consists of more than 5,500 radio programs from the 1950s and 1960s, created by over 100 NAEB member stations. The collection includes radio documentaries, coverage of events (hearings, meetings, conferences, and seminars), interviews, debates, and lectures on public affairs topics such … Continue reading The National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB) Collection Now Available on AAPB
AAPB Debuts New Exhibit “Protecting Places: Historic Preservation and Public Broadcasting”
The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) has launched a new digital exhibit titled "Protecting Places: Historic Preservation and Public Broadcasting." Historic preservation is more than just saving old buildings from the bulldozer. Histories can be shared or silenced depending upon the preservation of places that represent a larger story. AAPB Digital Exhibits Intern Kara … Continue reading AAPB Debuts New Exhibit “Protecting Places: Historic Preservation and Public Broadcasting”
Upcoming Webinar: AAPB’s Quality Control Tools and Techniques for Ingesting Digitized Collections
Oklahoma mentor Lisa Henry (left) cleaning a U-matic deck with Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellow Tanya Yule. This Thursday, February 15th at 8 pm EST, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) staff will host a webinar covering quality control tools and technologies used when ingesting digitized collections into the AAPB archive, including MDQC, MediaConch, Sonic Visualizer, and QCTools. The public … Continue reading Upcoming Webinar: AAPB’s Quality Control Tools and Techniques for Ingesting Digitized Collections
Historic WRVR-FM Archives to be Digitized, Preserved and Made Available in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Historic WRVR-FM Archives Receives CLIR Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives Award More than 4,000 hours of cultural and political radio programming from the 60s and 70s to be made public Morningside Heights, NY – The Council on Library and Information Resources has awarded a grant of $330,000 to digitize, preserve, and make publicly … Continue reading Historic WRVR-FM Archives to be Digitized, Preserved and Made Available in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting
AAPB Debuts New Online Exhibit “Structuring the News: The Magazine Format in Public Media”
The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) has launched a new digital exhibit about newsmagazines, a popular form of news presentation spanning five decades of radio and television broadcasting. Departing from mainstream examples such as 60 Minutes and All Things Considered, the exhibit brings together unique programs produced by independent stations from across the country … Continue reading AAPB Debuts New Online Exhibit “Structuring the News: The Magazine Format in Public Media”
AAPB Presentations at #AMIA14
Earlier this month, the AAPB team traveled to beautiful city of Savannah, Georgia to attend the annual Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) conference. AAPB team members Karen Cariani, Casey Davis, Lauren Sorensen, and Sadie Roosa gave multiple presentations and coordinated events throughout the conference, including Karen's presentation on WGBH's new open-source digital repository, HydraDAM; … Continue reading AAPB Presentations at #AMIA14
PBS Annual Meeting Presentation & Takeaways
The American Archive team from WGBH presented at the PBS Annual Meeting in San Francisco. We had the wonderful opportunity to meet many of our station collaborators in person and gather tremendously useful feedback from participants. Many thanks to all of those who attended the session and reception, as well as those who took the time … Continue reading PBS Annual Meeting Presentation & Takeaways
♥ Happy Valentine’s Day from the American Archive and Chicago Public Media! ♥
Happy Valentine's Day! Love is in the air today as we share with you a clip from the American Archive, contributed by Chicago Public Media (WBEZ), featuring Little Milton singing "I Want to Love You" at the Chicago Blues Festival in June of 1987. "The Chicago Blues Festival has been a Chicago institution for over 30 … Continue reading ♥ Happy Valentine’s Day from the American Archive and Chicago Public Media! ♥
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