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
RPTF Sound Collections Database: http://database.radiopreservation.org/ External
Task Force Directors
Director &
NRPB Fellow
Josh Shepperd
Catholic University of America
Assistant Director
Shawn Vancour
UCLA
Convener
Christopher H. Sterling
George Washington University
Chair, National Recording Preservation Board
RPTF Chair
Michele Hilmes
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Metadata Directors
William Vanden Dries
Indiana University
Mark Matienzo
Stanford University
Preservation Director
Brandon Burke
Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University
Derek Vaillant
University of Michigan
(Preservation Historian)
Conference Director
Neil Verma
Northwestern
Network Directors
Emily Goodmann
Clarke University
Dylan Flesch
KEXP-Seattle
Sammy Jones
CNN
Amanda Keeler
Marquette
Transnational Director
Christine Ehrick
University of Louisville
Education Directors
Kit Hughes
Colorado State University
Allison Perlman
University of California-Irvine
Spanish Language/Bilingual Director
Inés Casillas
UC-Santa Barbara
Graduate Student Representative
Catherine Martin,
Boston University
Partnerships and Collaborations
- Alan Lomax Archive External
- American Archives of Public Broadcasting External
- American Library Association (ALA) External
- Birmingham Black Radio Museum External
- British Library, Save our Sounds External
- Broadcast Education Association 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
- Latino Public Radio Consortium External
- Library and Archives Canada (LAC) External
- Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities 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
- WFMU External
- Wilson Center - Cold War International History Project External