Colleagues,

The Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) has recently received
funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission
(NHPRC) for a two-year project, "Preserving Local Television."  This project
will address the problems of preserving the vital yet endangered record of
20th Century American life contained in local television footage and
programming.  Conducted in association with the National Academy of
Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), the project will open a dialog between
archivists and broadcasters, and through the analysis of case studies will
develop guidelines for the preservation and management of the products of
local television.

An important and formative part of the project is a survey of local
television collections in the hands of archives, museums, libraries and (in
some cases) the stations themselves.  A database that will result from this
survey will not only help with the selection of case studies for the
project, but it will provide a useful resource for understanding the extent
of local television materials in America and the breadth of their
preservation needs.

We would like to enlist your help with this survey.  If you know of any
existing local television collections, regardless of condition or
accessibility, please send a note to Karen Cariani,
WGBH Educational Foundation ([log in to unmask]) with station call
letters, city, state, repository, and (if known) contact person.  Colleagues
responsible for local TV collections may respond directly to the survey in
electronic or hard-copy form if they wish: You can access it at
http://granite.sentex.net/~ritchpat/websurve.html.

If you would like further information on the Preserving Local Television
project, feel free to contact Project Manager Sharon Blair at
[log in to unmask]  For more on the Association of Moving Image Archivists,
visit its website at www.amianet.org.

Thank you for your help with this important endeavor.


Paul J. Eisloeffel
Curator of Audio-Visual Collections
Nebraska State Historical Society
P.O. Box 82554
Lincoln, NE 68501
(402) 471-4750
Fax: (402) 471-8922
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www.nebraskahistory.org

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