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{"id" : "collection_768", "documentType_txt" : "collection", "collectionTitle_txt" : "NPR Illinois Archives", "collectionDescription_txt" : "Based in the Illinois state capital, most of the archive involves public affairs analysis programs, annual addresses, and news coverage.", "collectionOwnerId_txt" : "agent_454", "collectionOwnerName_txt" : "NPR Illinois 91.9 UIS (Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois)", "collectionOwnerCategory_txt" : ["Broadcasting station", "College or university", "State"], "collectionOwnerLocationCountry_txt" : "United States", "collectionOwnerLocationState_txt" : "Illinois", "collectionOwnerLocationCity_txt" : "Springfield", "collectionCreators_txt" : ["Bradley, Richard, 1975-2009 WSSR/WSSU/WUIS", "Wheelhouse, William, 2009-2016", "WUIS", "Crawford, Sean, 2016-", "NPR Illinois"], "collectionDates_txt" : "1975/present", "collectionContentTypes_txt" : ["Spoken word", "Still image", "Text"], "collectionFormats_txt" : ["Analog audiocassette", "Digital Audio Tape (DAT)", "Polyester open reel tape", "Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)", "Photographic print"], "collectionExtent_txt" : "Daily web postings of news stories (audio/photo/text) since 2011. 200 analog reel recordings. In-depth public policy reports (text) since 1975.", "collectionLanguages_txt" : ["English"], "collectionGenres_txt" : ["Public affairs radio programs", "Radio news programs", "Radio press conferences", "Magazine format radio programs", "Speeches", "Historical radio programs"], "collectionCondition_txt" : ["Playable with proper equipment"], "collectionWebsiteUrl_txt" : "http://nprillinois.org/search/google; http://www.lib.niu.edu/iilistyrs.html; https://wuisnews.wordpress.com/", "collectionFindingAidUrl_txt" : "http://nprillinois.org/search/google; http://www.lib.niu.edu/iilistyrs.html; https://wuisnews.wordpress.com/", "collectionInventoryDescription_txt" : ["Online catalog record"], "collectionSupportingDocumentationDescription_txt" : "Minimal", "collectionHistoricalRelevance_txt" : "Perspective on Illinois state government in the late 20th and early 21st century. Much existing material elsewhere originates with a Chicago perspective which may be different than the downstate/capital perspective found here.", "collectionAccessStatement_txt" : "Access to reels requires a request and time to digitize as reels may have only one audible playback left (a fee may be necessary to digitize). Digital archive online immediately accessible without fee.", "collectionUsageStatement_txt" : "May be used for informative purposes without charge. Political or marketing use subject to approval. Any use must site: NPR Illinois Archives, NPR Illinois 91.9 UIS, Springfield."},
{"id" : "collection_769", "documentType_txt" : "collection", "collectionTitle_txt" : "Prairie Public Audio", "collectionDescription_txt" : "Collection of daily interview shows, news stories, topical reporting projects, and historical features.", "collectionOwnerId_txt" : "agent_455", "collectionOwnerName_txt" : "Prairie Public Broadcasting", "collectionOwnerCategory_txt" : ["Broadcasting station"], "collectionOwnerLocationCountry_txt" : "United States", "collectionOwnerLocationState_txt" : "North Dakota", "collectionOwnerLocationCity_txt" : "Fargo", "collectionCreators_txt" : ["Station staff"], "collectionDates_txt" : "1991/present", "collectionContentTypes_txt" : ["Spoken word", "Still image"], "collectionFormats_txt" : ["Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD)", "Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)", "Text document"], "collectionExtent_txt" : "\"Main Street\" (talk/interview show) currently over 4500 54 min. programs, Dakota Datebbok (short history feature), currently 4700, News stories starting in 1991, topical documentaries and special feature sets, 25", "collectionLanguages_txt" : ["English"], "collectionGenres_txt" : ["Radio news stories", "Radio interview/talk show", "Various topical feature story sets and documentaries", "Regional history feature"], "collectionCondition_txt" : ["Playable with proper equipment"], "collectionWebsiteUrl_txt" : "http://www.prairiepublic.org/radio", "collectionInventoryDescription_txt" : ["Digital text document (other than spreadsheet or database)", "Web site search"], "collectionSupportingDocumentationDescription_txt" : "For the interview/talk show, each listing has a summary description. Some topical productions and news stories have transcripts. All of the Dakota Datebooks (history feature) have a transcript.", "collectionHistoricalRelevance_txt" : "Contains interviews and news stories about current events and affairs (including arts and culture) in the North Dakota region for the years covered. Dakota Datebook is historical vignettes from regional history.", "collectionAccessStatement_txt" : "Much of this material is available and archived on our web site. Material not online may be available by request.", "collectionUsageStatement_txt" : "All material is copyright Prairie Public, contact us for permission for any publication.", "collectionNotes_txt" : "Prairie Public is a statewide public radio network for North Dakota, and North Dakota (plus neighboring regions of other states) is the main focus."},
{"id" : "collection_771", "documentType_txt" : "collection", "collectionTitle_txt" : "KUOW audio archives", "collectionDescription_txt" : "Primarily interviews and live musical performances featuring international newsmakers to local musicians. Includes nearly complete (app. 450 hours) archive of live-performance show, \"Sandy Bradley's POTLUCK,\" aired on KUOW in Seattle and about 50 non-commercial US stations between 1984-1995. Also hundreds of hours of live folk, classical and world-music concerts from Puget Sound region. A large portion of this material has been archived in digital (.wav/44.1/16) format (done in 2008).", "collectionOwnerId_txt" : "agent_457", "collectionOwnerName_txt" : "KUOW-FM / Puget Sound Public Radio / University of Washington", "collectionOwnerCategory_txt" : ["Broadcasting station", "College or university", "Nonprofit group"], "collectionOwnerLocationCountry_txt" : "United States", "collectionOwnerLocationState_txt" : "Washington", "collectionOwnerLocationCity_txt" : "Seattle", "collectionDates_txt" : "1984/2000", "collectionContentTypes_txt" : ["Performed music", "Spoken word", "Still image"], "collectionFormats_txt" : ["Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD)", "MiniDisc", "Analog audiocassette", "Digital Audio Tape (DAT)", "Polyester open reel tape", "Acetate open reel tape", "Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)", "Betamax", "Text document", "PDFs"], "collectionExtent_txt" : "> 1000 reel-to-reel analogue tapes, several hundred DATs, small number of cassettes, MDs, CDs", "collectionLanguages_txt" : ["English", "French", "Spanish"], "collectionGenres_txt" : ["Folk", "Jazz", "Classical", "World", "Spoken word", "News actuality", "Interviews"], "collectionCondition_txt" : ["Playable with proper equipment", "Known damage (repairs needed)"], "collectionInventoryDescription_txt" : ["Relational database", "Digital text document (other than spreadsheet or database)"], "collectionSupportingDocumentationDescription_txt" : "Listings for POTLUCK shows, list of archived interviews (incomplete)", "collectionHistoricalRelevance_txt" : "Many of the interviews and musical performances are with newsmakers and musicians (local to international) who are now deceased. KUOW-FM is a major news station in the Seattle market, on-air since 1952. Archival work only became active in the mid-1980s on analogue tape, eventually moving to a larger digital and internet presence in the early 2000s.", "collectionAccessStatement_txt" : "In-house at KUOW only (as of late 2017), with a very limited number of interviews available to the public via station's website.", "collectionUsageStatement_txt" : "Digitized material from the archives has been used in-house for historical reference, as well as using some musical performances for additional (non-main broadcast channel) program services."},
{"id" : "collection_772", "documentType_txt" : "collection", "collectionTitle_txt" : "KTRU Rice Radio Archive", "collectionDescription_txt" : "The KTRU Rice Radio archive includes audio created by the student radio station from 1969 - 2005, covering a variety of searchable topics, such as: news, sports, interviews, musician interviews, and speeches and lectures. To learn more about the Rice University KTRU Radio records and their complete contents, please visit our detailed inventory.", "collectionOwnerId_txt" : "agent_395", "collectionOwnerName_txt" : "Woodson Research Center Special Collections & Archives, Fondren Library", "collectionOwnerCategory_txt" : ["College or university"], "collectionOwnerLocationCountry_txt" : "United States", "collectionOwnerLocationState_txt" : "Texas", "collectionOwnerLocationCity_txt" : "Houston", "collectionCreators_txt" : ["KTRU Rice Radio"], "collectionDates_txt" : "1969/2007", "collectionContentTypes_txt" : ["Performed music", "Sounds (Other than music & language)", "Spoken word"], "collectionFormats_txt" : ["Analog audiocassette", "Digital Audio Tape (DAT)", "Polyester open reel tape", "Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)"], "collectionExtent_txt" : "25 lin. ft.", "collectionLanguages_txt" : ["English"], "collectionGenres_txt" : ["Live music", "Interviews", "News", "Sports", "Speeches and lectures"], "collectionLocalId_txt" : "UA 011", "collectionWebsiteUrl_txt" : "https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/96594", "collectionFindingAidUrl_txt" : "http://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/resources/568", "collectionCatalogUrl_txt" : "http://alexandria.rice.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/57/5/3?searchdata1=1867115{CKEY}&searchfield1=GENERAL^SUBJECT^GENERAL^^&user_id=WEBSERVER", "collectionInventoryDescription_txt" : ["Paper inventory or finding aid", "EAD finding aid", "Online catalog record"], "collectionHistoricalRelevance_txt" : "Audio recordings and administrative files reflecting the daily business of the KTRU Radio station at Rice University. Recordings include newscasts, interviews with rock, jazz and classical musicians, Rice Presidents’ State of the University speeches and recorded live music. Administrative records include radio directors’ meeting minutes, “Gripes and Groans” books from the DJ booth, programming notes, election forms, DJ handbook, licensing information, and correspondence.", "collectionAccessStatement_txt" : "Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586. Some items are online at: https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/96594 others are accessible by request.", "collectionUsageStatement_txt" : "This material is open for research.", "collectionNotes_txt" : "All digitized"},
{"id" : "collection_773", "documentType_txt" : "collection", "collectionTitle_txt" : "WILL Radio: Focus 580", "collectionDescription_txt" : "Broadcast archives of the WILL Radio's Focus 580, a public radio call-in talk program featuring interviews with newsmakers, subject matter and policy experts, authors, artists, and others addressing topics of public interest including politics, science, health, race, gender, LGBTQ, environment, education, history, literature, culture and the arts, and community life.", "collectionOwnerId_txt" : "agent_458", "collectionOwnerName_txt" : "Illinois Public Media, University of Illinois", "collectionOwnerCategory_txt" : ["Broadcasting station", "College or university", "Nonprofit group"], "collectionOwnerLocationCountry_txt" : "United States", "collectionOwnerLocationState_txt" : "Illinois", "collectionOwnerLocationCity_txt" : "Urbana", "collectionCreators_txt" : ["David Inge", "Jack Brighton", "Travis Stansel", "Harriet Williamson"], "collectionDates_txt" : "1986-04-15/2014-04-25", "collectionContentTypes_txt" : ["Performed music", "Spoken word", "Text"], "collectionFormats_txt" : ["Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD)", "Analog audiocassette", "Digital Audio Tape (DAT)", "Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)", "Data disk (floppy disk)", "Text document"], "collectionExtent_txt" : "5,500 items", "collectionLanguages_txt" : ["English"], "collectionGenres_txt" : ["Radio talk shows"], "collectionLocalId_txt" : "focus580", "collectionCondition_txt" : ["Playable with proper equipment"], "collectionWebsiteUrl_txt" : "https://will.illinois.edu/focus", "collectionFindingAidUrl_txt" : "https://aa.will.illinois.edu/index.php/html/searchresults/f6c9fc69cc7e1b6e8606c5e30db00997/P50", "collectionInventoryDescription_txt" : ["Paper inventory or finding aid", "Relational database", "Online catalog record", "Digital text document (other than spreadsheet or database)"], "collectionSupportingDocumentationDescription_txt" : "Supporting documentation includes paper records of the program's weekly schedule from 1982 through 2011; electronic documents including weekly program schedules and host introduction scripts in Microsoft Word and WordPerfect from 1994 through 2009; and a Microsoft Access database with information on program dates, topics, and guests covering unknown dates.", "collectionHistoricalRelevance_txt" : "Broadcast live each weekday 10 am to noon from 1982 to 2014, Focus 580 was WILL's flagship talk program, providing in-depth interviews on news, national and international affairs, and other topics of public interest. The collection contains interviews with local, regional, national, and international newsmakers and experts on a wide range of topics.", "collectionAccessStatement_txt" : "All collection materials that are published on the WILL website, including digital audio archives of the program, may be accessed without restriction. Collection items and metadata that are not online may be accessed with permission from WILL.", "collectionUsageStatement_txt" : "All collection materials that are accessible online may be used, quoted, and shared without permission for educational, journalistic, and scholarly purposes. Finding aids and other metadata may be used and shared with no restrictions.", "collectionNotes_txt" : "This collection is in active development for increasing the level of detail in its item-level metadata, and for public access to its complete digital audio archives. While the program first aired in 1982, the earliest recordings were not preserved by WILL. Records of the program begin in 1982, but the earliest extant audio archives date from 1986. From 1982 to 2000 the program was recorded to analog 1/8\" audio cassette tape, but not every tape from this period was preserved. Beginning in 2000 the program was recorded on audio Compact Discs, and later directly to digital files (audio/wav) on network storage. The set of audio recordings is most complete from about 2000 to 2014, when production of Focus 580 ended."},
{"id" : "collection_774", "documentType_txt" : "collection", "collectionTitle_txt" : "The Vietnam War", "collectionDescription_txt" : "Audio and Video assets on the topic of the Vietnam War, produced by WILL Radio and Television, including news stories, interview programs, public lectures, and oral history interviews.", "collectionOwnerId_txt" : "agent_458", "collectionOwnerName_txt" : "Illinois Public Media, University of Illinois", "collectionOwnerCategory_txt" : ["Broadcasting station", "College or university", "Nonprofit group"], "collectionOwnerLocationCountry_txt" : "United States", "collectionOwnerLocationState_txt" : "Illinois", "collectionOwnerLocationCity_txt" : "Urbana", "collectionCreators_txt" : ["WILL Radio", "WILL Television", "Illinois Public Media"], "collectionDates_txt" : "1967/2015", "collectionContentTypes_txt" : ["Spoken word", "Text", "Two-dimensional moving image"], "collectionFormats_txt" : ["Lacquer disc", "Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD)", "Analog audiocassette", "Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)", "Open reel video", "Text document"], "collectionExtent_txt" : "25 oral histories; 42 radio programs; 2 TV news stories", "collectionLanguages_txt" : ["English"], "collectionGenres_txt" : ["Television news programs", "Oral histories", "Radio interviews"], "collectionLocalId_txt" : "will_vietnam_war", "collectionCondition_txt" : ["Playable with proper equipment"], "collectionFindingAidUrl_txt" : "https://will.illinois.edu/vietnam/", "collectionCatalogUrl_txt" : "https://will.illinois.edu/vietnam/", "collectionInventoryDescription_txt" : ["Relational database", "Digital text document (other than spreadsheet or database)"], "collectionSupportingDocumentationDescription_txt" : "Supporting documentation includes paper records of program schedules, Word documents containing radio program scripts, and internal project records. These records are poorly organized and located in different departments of WILL. Most of the relevant descriptive metadata has been aggregated on the WILL website at https://will.illinois.edu/vietnam/, along with access copies of the media files.", "collectionHistoricalRelevance_txt" : "This collection represents coverage of the Vietnam War and related topics during and after the war. Its items are unique to this collection, including coverage of student protests at the University of Illinois, and oral histories of central Illinois residents who served during the war.", "collectionAccessStatement_txt" : "Materials published online may be accessed by anyone at any time.", "collectionUsageStatement_txt" : "The materials in this collection may be used by anyone for non-commercial, journalistic, or scholarly purposes, with acknowledgement of Illinois Public Media as the copyright holder."},
{"id" : "collection_775", "documentType_txt" : "collection", "collectionTitle_txt" : "KUTX Studio 1A Recordings", "collectionOwnerId_txt" : "agent_459", "collectionOwnerName_txt" : "KUTX", "collectionOwnerCategory_txt" : ["Broadcasting station"], "collectionOwnerLocationCountry_txt" : "United States", "collectionOwnerLocationState_txt" : "Texas", "collectionOwnerLocationCity_txt" : "Austin", "collectionContentTypes_txt" : ["Performed music"], "collectionFormats_txt" : ["Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD)", "Digital Audio Tape (DAT)", "Open reel tape (unknown material)", "Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)"], "collectionGenres_txt" : ["Rock", "Folk", "Indie", "Country", "Pop"], "collectionCondition_txt" : ["Playable with proper equipment"], "collectionWebsiteUrl_txt" : "http://americanarchive.org/catalog?f%5Baccess_types%5D%5B%5D=all&f%5Borganization%5D%5B%5D=KUT+Radio+%28TX%29", "collectionInventoryDescription_txt" : ["Online catalog record"], "collectionHistoricalRelevance_txt" : "Austin Music Scene"},
{"id" : "collection_776", "documentType_txt" : "collection", "collectionTitle_txt" : "New Dimensions Media records, 1968-2016", "collectionDescription_txt" : "570 linear feet of media (circa 6600 quarter-inch audio tapes, DATs, cassettes, minidiscs, and CDs) and 66 linear feet of archival records, including organizational files, resource files, press/promotional and mailings, photographs and slides, NEW DIMENSIONS JOURNAL and NEWSLETTER, and business records. The tapes hold approximately 7000 hours of audio and video recordings. New Dimensions Media is an independent, listener supported, educational broadcasting group based in Ukiah, California. Interviews by the group are carried by public and community radio stations and feature a gamut of eclectic voices including artists, scientists, ecologists, social architects, healers, spiritual leaders, indigenous voices, etc. The program is broadcast in more than 500 communities nationally.", "collectionOwnerId_txt" : "agent_293", "collectionOwnerName_txt" : "Stanford University, Dept. of Special Collections", "collectionOwnerCategory_txt" : ["College or university"], "collectionOwnerLocationCountry_txt" : "United States", "collectionOwnerLocationState_txt" : "California", "collectionOwnerLocationCity_txt" : "Palo Alto", "collectionCreators_txt" : ["Michael Toms", "Justine Toms"], "collectionContentTypes_txt" : ["Spoken word"], "collectionFormats_txt" : ["Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD)", "MiniDisc", "Analog audiocassette", "Digital Audio Tape (DAT)", "Open reel tape (unknown material)"], "collectionExtent_txt" : "636 linear feet (7000 interviews)", "collectionLanguages_txt" : ["English"], "collectionCondition_txt" : ["Playable with proper equipment", "Known damage (repairs needed)", "Unknown"], "collectionFindingAidUrl_txt" : "http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8hq44pj/", "collectionCatalogUrl_txt" : "https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/6976115", "collectionInventoryDescription_txt" : ["EAD finding aid", "Online catalog record"], "collectionAccessStatement_txt" : "The print portion of accession 2008-144 is open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. Audiovisual materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy. The remainder of the collection is closed until processed."},
{"id" : "collection_777", "documentType_txt" : "collection", "collectionTitle_txt" : "Carlton E. Morse papers, 1932-1982", "collectionDescription_txt" : "Radio and TV scripts, correspondence, newsclips, publicity materials, photographs, 90 reels of TV film, and sound recording. Radio dramatist, joined production staff of NBC in 1930. Wrote One Man's Family, 1932-1959, I Love a Mystery, 1939-1944, and other programs.", "collectionOwnerId_txt" : "agent_293", "collectionOwnerName_txt" : "Stanford University, Dept. of Special Collections", "collectionOwnerCategory_txt" : ["College or university"], "collectionOwnerLocationCountry_txt" : "United States", "collectionOwnerLocationState_txt" : "California", "collectionOwnerLocationCity_txt" : "Palo Alto", "collectionCreators_txt" : ["Carlton E. Morse"], "collectionDates_txt" : "1932/1982", "collectionContentTypes_txt" : ["Spoken word"], "collectionFormats_txt" : ["Open reel tape (unknown material)"], "collectionExtent_txt" : "51 feet", "collectionLanguages_txt" : ["English"], "collectionLocalId_txt" : "M0362", "collectionCondition_txt" : ["Unknown"], "collectionFindingAidUrl_txt" : "http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf62900550/", "collectionCatalogUrl_txt" : "https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4083069", "collectionInventoryDescription_txt" : ["EAD finding aid", "Online catalog record"], "collectionAccessStatement_txt" : "Collection is open for research; materials must be requested at least 24 hours in advance of intended use. The reel-to-reel tapes will need to be duplicated for preservation purposes before they may be listened to. Please contact the department."},
{"id" : "collection_778", "documentType_txt" : "collection", "collectionTitle_txt" : "WFCR Radio Broadcast Collection", "collectionDescription_txt" : "The first public radio station in western New England, WFCR Five College Radio has provided a mix of high quality, locally-produced and nationally syndicated programming since May 1961. In 2012, the station reached over 175,000 listeners per week, with a mix of classical and jazz music, news, and entertainment. The WFCR Collection contains nearly 4,500 reel to reel recordings of locally-produced radio programs, reflecting over fifty years of the cultural and intellectual life of western Massachusetts. Drawing upon the talents of the faculty and students of the Five Colleges (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and UMass Amherst), the collection offers a remarkable breadth of content, ranging from public affairs to community and national news, cultural programming, children's programming, news and current events, scholarly lectures, classical music, and jazz.", "collectionOwnerId_txt" : "agent_96", "collectionOwnerName_txt" : "UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives", "collectionOwnerCategory_txt" : ["Personal", "College or university"], "collectionOwnerLocationCountry_txt" : "United States", "collectionOwnerLocationState_txt" : "Massachusetts", "collectionOwnerLocationCity_txt" : "Amherst", "collectionCreators_txt" : ["WFCR (Radio station : Amherst, Mass.)"], "collectionDates_txt" : "1954/1987", "collectionContentTypes_txt" : ["Performed music", "Sounds (Other than music & language)", "Spoken word"], "collectionFormats_txt" : ["Analog audiocassette", "Polyester open reel tape"], "collectionExtent_txt" : "462 linear feet", "collectionLanguages_txt" : ["English", "Spanish", "French"], "collectionGenres_txt" : ["Sound recordings"], "collectionLocalId_txt" : "MS 741", "collectionCondition_txt" : ["Playable with proper equipment"], "collectionFindingAidUrl_txt" : "http://scua.library.umass.edu/ead/mums741.html", "collectionInventoryDescription_txt" : ["EAD finding aid", "Online catalog record"]},
{"id" : "collection_779", "documentType_txt" : "collection", "collectionTitle_txt" : "Massachusetts Review Records", "collectionDescription_txt" : "The Massachusetts Review is an independent quarterly of literature, the arts, and public affairs. Co-founded by Jules Chametzky and Sidney Kaplan in 1959 to promote eclectic, nontraditional, and underrepresented literary and intellectual talent, the Review has been an important venue for African American, Native American, and feminist writers and poets, mixing new and established authors. The records of the Massachusetts Review document the history and operations of the magazine from its founding to the present, including general correspondence and nearly complete editorial files for published works. The collection also includes a small number of audio recordings of MR2, a radio show hosted by Review editor David Lenson with interviews of writers, artists, and cultural critics.", "collectionOwnerId_txt" : "agent_96", "collectionOwnerName_txt" : "UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives", "collectionOwnerCategory_txt" : ["Personal", "College or university"], "collectionOwnerLocationCountry_txt" : "United States", "collectionOwnerLocationState_txt" : "Massachusetts", "collectionOwnerLocationCity_txt" : "Amherst", "collectionCreators_txt" : ["Massachusetts Review"], "collectionDates_txt" : "1959/2013", "collectionContentTypes_txt" : ["Sounds (Other than music & language)", "Spoken word", "Text"], "collectionFormats_txt" : ["Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)"], "collectionExtent_txt" : "Five recordings of MR2, radio show on WMUA", "collectionLanguages_txt" : ["English"], "collectionLocalId_txt" : "MS 555", "collectionCondition_txt" : ["Playable with proper equipment"], "collectionFindingAidUrl_txt" : "http://scua.library.umass.edu/ead/mums555.xml", "collectionInventoryDescription_txt" : ["EAD finding aid"]},
{"id" : "collection_780", "documentType_txt" : "collection", "collectionTitle_txt" : "Mainstream Media Project Records", "collectionDescription_txt" : "Founded in 1995, by founder and former executive director Mark Sommer, the Mainstream Media Project (MMP) was a nonprofit public education organization focused on print and broadcast media about creative approaches in achieving peace, security, and sustainability in an interdependent global community. Until its closing in early 2014, it was particularly involved with placing top policy analysts, social innovators, and on-the-ground organizers on radio and television stations across the country and globe. One such project, A World of Possibilities radio show, founded in 2001, was an award-winning one hour weekly show hosted by Sommer. A program \"of spirited global conversations,\" featuring interviews searching for understanding of, and solutions to, longstanding global public affairs challenges, A World of Possibilities was nationally and internationally syndicated until it ceased broadcasting in 2011. The MMP Records contain over ten linear feet of CD and DVD masters of uncut interviews and produced radio shows. Shows, including Heart of the Matter and A World of Possibilities, explore promising new thinking and experimentation in fields ranging from energy, food, water, and wilderness to human rights, global security, and public health, and include interviews with leading experts and innovators, such as Studs Terkel, Pete Seeger, Laurie Garrett, Wangari Maathai, Frances Moore Lappe, Howard Gardner, Lily Yeh, Robert Reich, Majora Carter, Van Jones and many more. The collection also contains MMP business files, consisting of correspondence, reports, articles, grant information, and organizational materials.", "collectionOwnerId_txt" : "agent_96", "collectionOwnerName_txt" : "UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives", "collectionOwnerCategory_txt" : ["Personal", "College or university"], "collectionOwnerLocationCountry_txt" : "United States", "collectionOwnerLocationState_txt" : "Massachusetts", "collectionOwnerLocationCity_txt" : "Amherst", "collectionCreators_txt" : ["Sommer, Mark"], "collectionDates_txt" : "1995/2012", "collectionContentTypes_txt" : ["Spoken word"], "collectionFormats_txt" : ["Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD)"], "collectionExtent_txt" : "16 linear feet", "collectionLanguages_txt" : ["English"], "collectionLocalId_txt" : "MS 976", "collectionCondition_txt" : ["Playable with proper equipment"], "collectionFindingAidUrl_txt" : "http://scua.library.umass.edu/umarmot/mainstream-media-project/", "collectionInventoryDescription_txt" : ["Online catalog record"]},
{"id" : "collection_781", "documentType_txt" : "collection", "collectionTitle_txt" : "Bill Duesing Collection", "collectionDescription_txt" : "A pioneer in organic agriculture in New England, Bill Duesing has been as an environmental educator, writer, artist, and lecturer over for four decades. After graduating from Yale University (1964), Duesing worked as a Cooperative Extension agent before turning to organic principles in the early 1970s. Emphasizing sustainability and greater local food sufficiency, he has been instrumental in developing organic standards for gardening and land care and he has served as both founding president and later executive director of the Northeast Organic Farming Association Connecticut and president of the NOFA Interstate Council. During the 1990s, Duesing produced two radio shows, \"Living on the Earth\" (WSHU) and \"The Politics of Food\" (WPKN), and he is author of (1993). The Duesing collection consists of transcripts of his radio show, \"Living on the Earth\" (1990-2000) and fourteen recordings of \"The Politics of Food,\" which was broadcast monthly over WPKN (89.5 FM) in Bridgeport in 1997-1998. Each half hour segment of \"Politics\" included news, a fifteen minute interview, recipes, and tips, with interviewees including Mel Bristol, Jac Smit, Vincent Kay, John Wargo, Hugh Joseph, Joseph Kiefer, Julie Rawson, Michael Sligh, Kathy Lawrence, Lee Warren, and Elizabeth Henderson.", "collectionOwnerId_txt" : "agent_96", "collectionOwnerName_txt" : "UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives", "collectionOwnerCategory_txt" : ["Personal", "College or university"], "collectionOwnerLocationCountry_txt" : "United States", "collectionOwnerLocationState_txt" : "Massachusetts", "collectionOwnerLocationCity_txt" : "Amherst", "collectionCreators_txt" : ["Duesing, Bill"], "collectionDates_txt" : "1995/2000", "collectionContentTypes_txt" : ["Spoken word"], "collectionFormats_txt" : ["Polyester open reel tape"], "collectionExtent_txt" : "14 items", "collectionLanguages_txt" : ["English"], "collectionGenres_txt" : ["Sound recordings"], "collectionLocalId_txt" : "MS 760", "collectionCondition_txt" : ["Playable with proper equipment"], "collectionFindingAidUrl_txt" : "http://scua.library.umass.edu/ead/mums760.html", "collectionInventoryDescription_txt" : ["EAD finding aid"]},
{"id" : "collection_782", "documentType_txt" : "collection", "collectionTitle_txt" : "James A. Freeman Broadcast Radio Collection", "collectionDescription_txt" : "A professor of English at UMass Amherst, James A. Freeman is a scholar of seventeenth century British literature who has compiled an impressively eclectic array of publications and research projects. Educated at Amherst College (AB 1956) and the University of Minnesota (PhD 1968), Freeman joined the faculty in the English Department at UMass shortly after completing his doctorate. He has published on topics ranging from Latin and Greek poets to Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Tennyson, James Agee, Donald Duck, 17th century regicides, and 1930s radio. He has also served as a regular contributor and editor for the Association for Gravestone Studies Quarterly. The Freeman collection consists of many hundreds of cassette tapes of radio broadcasts from the 1930s through early 1950s, reflecting the culture of commercial radio during its golden age. The collection includes representatives of most of the major genres, including comedy, drama, suspense and mystery, soap operas, and westerns. There is some depth popular programs such as Amos and Andy, the Great Gildersleeve, Philip Marlowe, and Nero Wolfe, but the collection also includes less common and short-lived shows.", "collectionOwnerId_txt" : "agent_96", "collectionOwnerName_txt" : "UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives", "collectionOwnerCategory_txt" : ["Personal", "College or university"], "collectionOwnerLocationCountry_txt" : "United States", "collectionOwnerLocationState_txt" : "Massachusetts", "collectionOwnerLocationCity_txt" : "Amherst", "collectionCreators_txt" : ["Freeman, James A."], "collectionDates_txt" : "ca. 1930/1955", "collectionContentTypes_txt" : ["Spoken word"], "collectionFormats_txt" : ["Analog audiocassette"], "collectionExtent_txt" : "27 linear feet", "collectionLanguages_txt" : ["English"], "collectionLocalId_txt" : "MS 759", "collectionCondition_txt" : ["Playable with proper equipment"], "collectionFindingAidUrl_txt" : "http://scua.library.umass.edu/umarmot/freeman-james-a/", "collectionInventoryDescription_txt" : ["Online catalog record"], "collectionHistoricalRelevance_txt" : "Primarily home recordings of \"old time radio\" shows."},
{"id" : "collection_783", "documentType_txt" : "collection", "collectionTitle_txt" : "Bill Cosby Radio Program Collection", "collectionDescription_txt" : "\"The Bill Cosby Radio Program\" was a daily syndicated radio series of roughly 5-minute comedy inserts by Cosby and produced by Frank Buxton (who also served as the show’s announcer and comedic \"straight man\"). Along with sound man Gene Twombly, Cosby and Buxton improvised the episodes, which were syndicated to more than 200 top-40 radio stations around the nation on transcription discs by The Coca-Cola Company and distributed by McCann-Erikson (Coke’s ad agency). The show marked the beginning of Cosby’s long association with Coca-Cola and was the debut of many characters from Cosby’s comedy. This collection features twelve radio broadcast transcription discs (one 12-inch disc and eleven 16-inch discs) of \"The Bill Cosby Radio Program\" containing programs #21-130 (1968 Jan 29-Jun 24) and programs #141-145 (1968 Jul 15). The disc labels contain the original program description and art.", "collectionOwnerId_txt" : "agent_96", "collectionOwnerName_txt" : "UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives", "collectionOwnerCategory_txt" : ["Personal", "College or university"], "collectionOwnerLocationCountry_txt" : "United States", "collectionOwnerLocationState_txt" : "Massachusetts", "collectionOwnerLocationCity_txt" : "Amherst", "collectionCreators_txt" : ["Cosby, Bill"], "collectionDates_txt" : "1968-01/1968-07", "collectionContentTypes_txt" : ["Spoken word"], "collectionFormats_txt" : ["Pressed LP disc"], "collectionExtent_txt" : "12 items", "collectionLanguages_txt" : ["English"], "collectionLocalId_txt" : "MS 981", "collectionCondition_txt" : ["Playable with proper equipment", "Unknown"], "collectionFindingAidUrl_txt" : "http://scua.library.umass.edu/umarmot/bill-cosby-radio-program/", "collectionInventoryDescription_txt" : ["Online catalog record"]},
{"id" : "collection_784", "documentType_txt" : "collection", "collectionTitle_txt" : "Black Mass Communications Project Collection", "collectionDescription_txt" : "The Black Mass Communications Project was founded as an educational and informational outlet for Black students at UMass Amherst in 1968 and authorized in the following year as a Registered Student Organization. Over the years, BCMP played varied roles on campus, hosting cultural events, lectures, workshops, and social gatherings as to help keep black music alive. Many of its early members were also affiliated with the student radio station WMUA, and throughout the 1970s, the organization played a prominent role in providing programming to the station, offering programming highlighting African American music and current affairs. The BCMP collection consists of many dozens of reel to reel audiotapes of radio broadcasts aired over WMUA during the 1970s and early 1980s by and for the university’s African American community. Included is a range of locally-produced public affairs, cultural, and music programming, with some content licensed from around the country. A few of the tapes are associated with the Five College’s National Public Radio affiliate, WFCR.", "collectionOwnerId_txt" : "agent_96", "collectionOwnerName_txt" : "UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives", "collectionOwnerCategory_txt" : ["Personal", "College or university"], "collectionOwnerLocationCountry_txt" : "United States", "collectionOwnerLocationState_txt" : "Massachusetts", "collectionOwnerLocationCity_txt" : "Amherst", "collectionDates_txt" : "ca. 1970/1985", "collectionContentTypes_txt" : ["Spoken word"], "collectionFormats_txt" : ["Polyester open reel tape"], "collectionExtent_txt" : "15 linear feet", "collectionLanguages_txt" : ["English"], "collectionLocalId_txt" : "RG 045/30 B4", "collectionCondition_txt" : ["Playable with proper equipment"], "collectionFindingAidUrl_txt" : "http://scua.library.umass.edu/umarmot/black-mass-communications-project/", "collectionInventoryDescription_txt" : ["Online catalog record"]},
{"id" : "collection_785", "documentType_txt" : "collection", "collectionTitle_txt" : "Local Rural Life Audiotape Collection", "collectionDescription_txt" : "Audiotape recordings of interviews conducted with members of the Pioneer Valley community for a public radio program. Titles of the shows that aired include: \"Portrait of a Farm Woman,\" \"Hadley: the Portrait of an Endangered Town,\" Keeping Rural Businesses in Business,\" and \"Shepherds, Bumpkins and Farmers’ Daughters.\"", "collectionOwnerId_txt" : "agent_96", "collectionOwnerName_txt" : "UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives", "collectionOwnerCategory_txt" : ["Personal", "College or university"], "collectionOwnerLocationCountry_txt" : "United States", "collectionOwnerLocationState_txt" : "Massachusetts", "collectionOwnerLocationCity_txt" : "Amherst", "collectionDates_txt" : "ca. 1985", "collectionContentTypes_txt" : ["Spoken word"], "collectionFormats_txt" : ["Analog audiocassette"], "collectionExtent_txt" : "0.25 linear feet", "collectionLanguages_txt" : ["English"], "collectionGenres_txt" : ["Sound recordings"], "collectionLocalId_txt" : "MS 507", "collectionCondition_txt" : ["Playable with proper equipment"], "collectionFindingAidUrl_txt" : "http://scua.library.umass.edu/umarmot/local-rural-life-audiotapes/", "collectionInventoryDescription_txt" : ["Online catalog record"]},
{"id" : "collection_786", "documentType_txt" : "collection", "collectionTitle_txt" : "Edward Gordon Craig Collection", "collectionDescription_txt" : "A noted figure in modernist theater, Edward Gordon Craig was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, on Jan. 16, 1872, the illegitimate son of the renowned actress Ellen Terry and the architect Edward William Craig. Although the most productive portion of his career was brief, he exerted a strong influence on the field of set design and lighting, and was fairly prolific as a writer on theatre. The six audio recordings that comprise the Craig collection originated from a series of BBC radio talks in the early 1950s. The reel to reel tapes include Craig’s reminiscences of Ellen Terry, Isadora Duncan, the old school of acting, celebrities, and how he played Hamlet in Salford, Lancashire.", "collectionOwnerId_txt" : "agent_96", "collectionOwnerName_txt" : "UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives", "collectionOwnerCategory_txt" : ["Personal", "College or university"], "collectionOwnerLocationCountry_txt" : "United States", "collectionOwnerLocationState_txt" : "Massachusetts", "collectionOwnerLocationCity_txt" : "Amherst", "collectionCreators_txt" : ["Craig, Edward Gordon"], "collectionDates_txt" : "1951/1956", "collectionContentTypes_txt" : ["Spoken word"], "collectionFormats_txt" : ["Analog audiocassette"], "collectionExtent_txt" : "0.5 linear feet", "collectionLanguages_txt" : ["English"], "collectionGenres_txt" : ["Sound recordings"], "collectionLocalId_txt" : "MS 344", "collectionCondition_txt" : ["Playable with proper equipment"], "collectionFindingAidUrl_txt" : "http://scua.library.umass.edu/umarmot/craig-edward-gordon/", "collectionInventoryDescription_txt" : ["Online catalog record"]},
{"id" : "collection_787", "documentType_txt" : "collection", "collectionTitle_txt" : "University of Massachusetts Literary Society Collection", "collectionDescription_txt" : "In 1955, the Literary Society of the University of Massachusetts and Professor H. Leland Varley received a grant of $5,800 from the Educational Television and Radio Center to produce a series of one-hour radio programs centered on a discussion of the impact of eight major American novelists from a European perspective. The subjects included Henry James, Sinclair Lewis, Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck (who replaced the original choice, John Marquand). The collection is comprised of recordings of the Literary Society radio program, ‘As others see us.’ Moderated by a member of the UMass Department of English, each broadcast featured discussions by distinguished literary critics such as W.H. Auden, R.P. Blackmur, Perry Miller, Maxwell Geismar, and Renato Poggioli. Dos Passos, Faulkner, and Steinbeck participated in person.", "collectionOwnerId_txt" : "agent_96", "collectionOwnerName_txt" : "UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives", "collectionOwnerCategory_txt" : ["Personal", "College or university"], "collectionOwnerLocationCountry_txt" : "United States", "collectionOwnerLocationState_txt" : "Massachusetts", "collectionOwnerLocationCity_txt" : "Amherst", "collectionCreators_txt" : ["University of Massachusetts Literary Society"], "collectionDates_txt" : "1956", "collectionContentTypes_txt" : ["Spoken word"], "collectionFormats_txt" : ["Polyester open reel tape"], "collectionExtent_txt" : "0.5 linear feet", "collectionLanguages_txt" : ["English"], "collectionLocalId_txt" : "RG 40/3 L4", "collectionCondition_txt" : ["Playable with proper equipment"], "collectionFindingAidUrl_txt" : "http://scua.library.umass.edu/umarmot/university-of-massachusetts-literary-society/", "collectionInventoryDescription_txt" : ["Online catalog record"]},
{"id" : "collection_788", "documentType_txt" : "collection", "collectionTitle_txt" : "Milo Ryan KIRO-CBS Radio News Phonoarchive, 1935-1978", "collectionDescription_txt" : "The Milo Ryan / CBS Radio News Phonoarchive is a unique audio time capsule that documents many historic 20th century events. It consists of sound recordings of CBS Radio News programs, public affairs shows, actualities, speeches, interviews, wartime dramas, daily World War II news updates. The recordings capture groundbreaking broadcasts by Edward R. Murrow and his \"Boys\": William L. Shirer, Eric Sevareid, Tom Grandin, Larry LeSueur, Charles Collingwood, Howard K. Smith, Winston Burdett, Bill Downs, Mary Marvin Breckinridge, Cecil Brown, and Richard C. Hottelet. The collection also includes recordings of programs and speeches made by public figures during and beyond WW II, including Churchill, Eisenhower, Einstein, Hitler, and JFK. As Dr. Donald Godfrey writes in his 1973 article \"History Held a Microphone\": \"There are twenty-two hundred and twenty-seven newscasts. All but a handful originating from CBS. Their newscasts represent every weekday without a miss, from September 7, 1939, with the Germans entering Poland, to April 2, 1945, with the allies entering Germany.... Tapes contain examples of special events coverage: the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor, the bombing of Japan, landings in North Africa, the 13 Normandy Invasion, the World Security Conference, April, 1945, the function of the American and Russian Armies, April, 1945, the death and funeral of FDR, and miles of tape on V. E. and V.J. days. Elmer Davis' daily five minute reports are represented in entirety from his debut, September 16, 1939, to February 13, 1941, and occasionally to July 9, 1943. H. V. Kaltenbom edits the news, complete from August 27, 1939, until January 26, 1940, and sporadically thereafter. Our library includes 21 speeches by Winston Churchill, representing 12 hours of this master of language. There are 51 talks by President Roosevelt totaling 24 continuous hours.\" A detailed description of most of the recordings in the Phonoarchive is available in Milo Ryan's book History in Sound (UW Press).", "collectionOwnerId_txt" : "agent_428", "collectionOwnerName_txt" : "University of Washington Libraries", "collectionOwnerCategory_txt" : ["College or university"], "collectionOwnerLocationCountry_txt" : "United States", "collectionOwnerLocationState_txt" : "Washington", "collectionOwnerLocationCity_txt" : "Seattle", "collectionCreators_txt" : ["CBS Radio Network (broadcaster)", "KIRO (Radio station : Seattle, Wash.) (broadcaster)"], "collectionDates_txt" : "1935/1978", "collectionContentTypes_txt" : ["Performed music", "Spoken word"], "collectionFormats_txt" : ["Acetate open reel tape", "Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)", "Photographic print", "Text document"], "collectionExtent_txt" : "2849 items", "collectionLanguages_txt" : ["English"], "collectionGenres_txt" : ["Interviews", "News recordings", "Radio drama", "Sound recordings", "Speeches, addresses", "World War II", "Cold War"], "collectionLocalId_txt" : "201401", "collectionCondition_txt" : ["Playable with proper equipment"], "collectionWebsiteUrl_txt" : "http://guides.lib.uw.edu/miloryan/", "collectionFindingAidUrl_txt" : "http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv09838/op=fstyle.aspx?t=i&q=waseumc", "collectionInventoryDescription_txt" : ["EAD finding aid"]}
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