Radio Preservation Task Force
The Radio Preservation Task Force (RPTF), created early in 2014, grows out of the Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Plan (December 2012, see: www.loc.gov/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/), and seeks to:
- To support collaboration between faculty researchers and archivists toward the preservation of radio history
- To develop an online inventory of extant American radio archival collections, focusing on recorded sound holdings, including research aids
- To identify and save endangered collections
- To develop pedagogical guides for utilizing radio and sound archives
- To act as a clearing house to encourage and expand academic study on the cultural history of radio through the location of grants, the creation of research caucuses, and development of metadata on extant materials
See 2023 Radio Preservation Conference materials
Download Conference Program (PDF, 1.6MB)
RPTF Sound Collections Database: http://database.radiopreservation.org/ External
Sound
Submissions Project
Task Force Directors
RPTF Director & NRPB Fellow
Shawn Vancour
UCLA
Chair & SSP Director
Josh Shepperd
University of Colorado Boulder
Co-Chair
Michele Hilmes
University of Wisconsin Madison
Convener
Christopher H. Sterling
George Washington University
Conference Director
Neil Verma
Northwestern
Metadata Directors
Mark Matienzo
Stanford University
Emily Goodmann
Northeastern University
Online Content Managers
Ingrid Ockert
University of California Berkeley
Christopher Brown
UMass Boston
Research Division
Catherine Martin
Denison University
Noah Arceneaux
San Diego State University
Heather Birks
Broadcast Education Association
Amanda Keeler
Marquette University
Rick Popp
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Alexander Russo
Catholic University
Preservation Division
Yuri Shimoda
Disney Music Group
Brandon Burke
Iron Mountain Library and Archival Services
Patrick Feaster
Indiana University
Maristella Feustle
University of North Texas + NRPB
Stacy Kowalcyk
Dominican University
John Vallier
University of Washington Seattle
Education Division
Lauren Bratslavsky
Illinois State
Kit Hughes
Colorado State
Allison Perlman
University of California Irvine
Stephanie Sapienza
University of Maryland MITH + SSP
Allison Schein Holmes
WTTW/WFMT
RPTF Graduate Student Council
Laura Brown
University of Texas Austin
Christoher DeCou
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Laura Garbes
Brown University
Maureen Mauk
University of Wisconsin Madison
Luz Ruiz
University of Colorado BoulderEric Silberberg
NYU
Brad Schwartz
Princeton
Partnerships and Collaborations
- Alan Lomax Archive External
- American Archives of Public Broadcasting External
- American Library Association (ALA) External
- Birmingham Black Radio Museum External
- Black Women in Radio External
- British Library, Save our Sounds External
- Broadcast Education Association External
- Brooklyn Underground Radio Archive Project External
- California Audiovisual Preservation Project External
- Current External
- Hoover Institution Library and Archives External
- Indiana University - Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative External
- International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) External
- International Communication Association External
- Internet Archive External
- Latino Public Radio Consortium External
- Library and Archives Canada (LAC) External
- Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities External
- Mass Media and Culture - University of Maryland External
- Media and the Movement External
- Media Archaeology Lab External
- Media Ecology Project External
- Media History Digital Library External
- Missouri Broadcasters Association External
- Missouri State Historical Society External
- National Communication Association External
- National Council on Public History External
- National Federation of Community Broadcasters External
- Native Public Media External
- Newseum External
- NPR Research, Archives, and Data Strategy External
- NYU Orphan Film Symposium External
- Pacifica Radio Archives External
- Paley Center External
- The Prometheus Radio Project External
- Radio Bilingue External
- Radio Survivor External
- St. Louis Media History Foundation External
- Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage External
- Smithsonian Channel External
- Society for Cinema and Media Studies External
- Sounding Out! Sound Studies Blog External
- Studs Terkel Archive External
- Third Coast Festival External
- Ubuweb External
- U.S. National Archives Motion Picture Branch External
- Voice of America External
- Wave Farm External
- WFMU External
- Wilson Center - Cold War International History Project External