In 2015, the Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded a generous grant to WGBH on behalf of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) to develop the AAPB National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR). Through this project, we have placed seven graduates of master’s degree programs in digital stewardship residencies at public media organizations … Continue reading AAPB NDSR Resources Round-up
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WGBH Awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Grant to Support Public Media Content Management Tools and Training
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WGBH Awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Grant to Support Public Media Content Management Tools and Training $345,000 will support training materials for PBCore metadata management Boston, Mass. (December 14, 2016) - WGBH Educational Foundation is pleased to announce that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded WGBH a $345,000 … Continue reading WGBH Awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Grant to Support Public Media Content Management Tools and Training
Celebrating National Radio Day
August 20 is National Radio Day! National Radio Day "is a time to honor one of the most longstanding electronic media and its role in our lives." To celebrate National Radio Day, we have added more than 500 historic radio programs to the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) Online Reading Room, now accessible from anywhere in the … Continue reading Celebrating National Radio Day
THIRTEEN’s American Masters Celebrates 30th Anniversary with Launch of Digital Video Archive and Podcast
The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB), a collaboration between WGBH and the Library of Congress, is delighted to preserve for posterity more than 800 previously unreleased full-length interviews that were originally filmed for the iconic documentary PBS series American Masters, produced by New York public television station THIRTEEN for WNET. The interviews, digitized for … Continue reading THIRTEEN’s American Masters Celebrates 30th Anniversary with Launch of Digital Video Archive and Podcast
AAPB honored with CLIR DLF Community/Capacity Award!
Today the Council on Library and Information Resources' Digital Library Federation (DLF) announced that the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) has been selected as an inaugural recipient of the DLF Community/Capacity Award, along with co-recipient The Biodiversity Heritage Library! Voting for the award ran through the month of June, and members selected AAPB among 16 nominees. About the … Continue reading AAPB honored with CLIR DLF Community/Capacity Award!
Police relations in public media
Our hearts are with those who are grieving unnecessary loss of life today. The following primary source materials from public media stations around the country document some of the history of the complex dynamic between police forces and marginalized communities in the United States. “Seeds of Discontent” Detroit, Michigan, 1968 Part of a WDET series … Continue reading Police relations in public media
AAPB @ NFCB 2016
Earlier this month, the AAPB team traveled to Denver, Colorado for the 2016 National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB) conference. This was our first year to attend the NFCB conference, and we were all very inspired by the attendees' commitment and dedication to their work, their stations, their community of listeners, and their advocacy for community … Continue reading AAPB @ NFCB 2016
Last day to contribute to the Public Broadcasting Preservation Scholarship
This post was written by Casey Davis, AAPB Project Manager at WGBH, for WGBH's Public Broadcasting Preservation Scholarship crowdfunding campaign. We need your help! Today is the last day to make a financial contribution to the AAPB's Public Broadcasting Preservation Scholarship. We have raised $2,000 and appreciate your additional support to get us closer to … Continue reading Last day to contribute to the Public Broadcasting Preservation Scholarship
PBS NewsHour Digitization Project Update
In January 2016, the Council on Library and Information Resources awarded WGBH, the Library of Congress, WETA, and NewsHour Productions, LLC a grant to digitize, preserve, and make publicly accessible on the AAPB website 32 years of NewsHour predecessor programs, from October 1975 to December 2007, that currently exist on obsolete analog formats. Described by … Continue reading PBS NewsHour Digitization Project Update
Please consider supporting the Public Broadcasting Preservation Scholarship
This post was written by Casey Davis, AAPB Project Manager at WGBH, for WGBH's Public Broadcasting Preservation Scholarship crowdfunding campaign. We're writing today to tell you about the AAPB Public Broadcasting Preservation Scholarship and to ask for your support. WGBH is leading the American Archive of Public Broadcasting National Digital Stewardship Residency program funded by the Institute … Continue reading Please consider supporting the Public Broadcasting Preservation Scholarship
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