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Our mission is to save analog media on the brink of obscurity, while simultaneously creating a digital footprint. Unearthing the history of each archived material is essential to lend provenance and background to the individual pieces of work. When navigating the archive, all artists with multiple works are filed on our collections page. All other organization is done by location.
Your donation makes a difference in safeguarding media that reflects community heritage. Donations are being allocated towards new acquisitions, nonprofit operations, & eventual office space. To check out our donors refer to the donor list.
There are over 537,000,000 sound recordings in collection-holding organizations across the United
States. Nearly 60% of these are estimated to be unique or rare while less than 20% have been digitized.
Almost 250,000,000 of the extant recordings are “preservation-worthy”
(unique, rare, irreplaceable). The cost of digitizing these items would be over $20 billion dollars.
Resources & Databases
Expand your knowledge about archiving media.
- Historical Voices
- Archives At Risk Success Stories
- Care & Handling Of CDs & DVDs
- Guide To Vintage Audio Formats
- ARSC Guide to Audio Preservation
- FIAT/IFTA ‘Save Your Archive’ Program
- AVP ‘Quantifying The Need’ Sound Recording Survey
- OCLC Research Survey of Special Collections & Archives
- Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Plan
Hubs accessed when compiling information.
- Gloryland Jubilee
- Southern Gospel History
- Songview Search (BMI)
- Newspapers
- University of North Carolina Collections
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