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: https://database.radiopreservation.org/ External
Sound
Submissions Project
Task Force Directors
RPTF Director and NRPB Sound Fellow
Josh Shepperd
University of Colorado Boulder
Lead Research Director
Stephanie Sapienza
University of Maryland MITH
Chair
Shawn Vancour
UCLA
Co-Chair
Michele Hilmes
University of Wisconsin Madison
Conference Director
Neil Verma
Northwestern University
National Recording Preservation Foundation
Jesse Johnston
University of Michigan
Directors Board
- Maristella Feustle (University of North Texas)
- Matt Barton (Library of Congress)
- Inés Casillas (University of California Santa Barbara)
- Sarah Cunningham (LBJ Presidential Library/NARA)
- Allison Schein (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Preservation Directors
- Brandon Burke (Iron Mountain)
- Patrick Feaster (ARSC)
- Dan Hockstein (Library of Congress)
- Miles Levy (Paramount)
- Yuri Shimoda (Warner Brothers)
Research Directors
- Noah Arceneaux (San Diego State)
- Josie Barth (Bucknell University)
- AJ Bauer (University of Alabama)
- Heather Birks (Broadcast Education Association)
- Aniko Bodroghkozy (University of Virginia)
- Laura Bratslavsky (Illinois State University)
- Patty Devery (StoryCorps)
- Teisha Dupree-Wilson (Coppin State)
- Katherine Jewell (Fitchburg State)
- Amanda Keeler (Marquette University)
- Felèsha Love (Black Women in Radio)
- Allison Perlman (University of California Irvine)
- Rick Popp (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee)
- Sonia Robles (University of Delaware)
- Alexander Rudenshiod (University of California Irvine)
- Alexander Russo (Catholic University)
- Laura Schnitker (University of Maryland College Park)
- Guha Shankar (Library of Congress)
- Jennifer Waits (Radio Survivor)
Graduate Student Council
- Laura Berlin (Rochester)
- Laura Brown (Texas)
- Sadie Couture (McGill)
- Ayanna Legros (Duke)
- Matrick McGee (CUNY)
- Emily Pons (Oregon)
- Luz Ruiz (Colorado)
- Brad Schwartz (Princeton)
- Rohan Subramaniam (CUNY)
RPTF Advisory Committee
- Patricia Aufderheide (American University)
- Alejandra Bronfman (SUNY Albany)
- Susan Douglas (University of Michigan)
- Rosa Eberly (Penn State University)
- Christine Ehrick (University of Louisville)
- Walter Forsberg (Smithsonian Archives)
- Laura Garbes (University of Minnesota)
- Will Mari (Louisiana State University)
- Rick Prelinger (University of California Santa Cruz)
- Jocelyn Robinson (WYSO)
- Michael Socolow (University of Maine)
- Andrea Stanton (University of Denver)
- Derek Vaillant (University of Michigan)
- David Walker (Smithsonian Folklife)
- Mark Williams (Dartmouth University)
- Sonja Williams (Howard University)
RPTF Partnership Journal
- Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture (University of California Press)
- Managing Editor: Jay Needham (Southern Illinois University)
Library of Congress Advisors
- Steve Leggett
- Cary O'Dell
- Patrick Midtlyng
Special Thanks
- Sam Brylawski (University of California Santa Barbara)
- Laura Jenemann (Library of Congress)
- Jason Loviglio (University of Maryland Baltimore County)
- Ryan Reft (Library of Congress)
- David Seubert (University of California Santa Barbara)
- Eric Schwartz (MSK)
- Dan Streible (New York University)
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
- Freedom Forum External
- HBCU Radio Preservation Project 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
- National Recording Preservation Foundation External
- Native Public Media External
- NPR Research, Archives, and Data Strategy External
- NYU Orphan Film Symposium External
- Pacifica Radio Archives External
- Paley Center External
- Prelinger Library 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
- StoryCorps 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