National Student Media Convention

College radio has a rich history, dating back more than a century. Are you working to preserve and archive your station's materials? You might be surprised by the items that are of interest to researchers and historians. Multiple efforts are underway to help college radio stations preserve both audio as well as paper artifacts from the past and present. In this session, we'll share resources that are available from the Library of Congress' Radio Preservation Task Force. Additionally, we'll talk about a new Internet Archive project that is collecting and digitizing college radio materials for a collection within the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications (DLARC). This session will include ample time for questions and we'd love to hear about the gems lurking in your radio station's shelves and file cabinets.