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0000017a-15d9-d736-a57f-17ff8ca00001NHPR began broadcasting in 1981, and in the intervening years has documented the the stories of New Hampshire. From policy makers in Concord, to residents around the state affected by those policies; from notable Granite Staters, to our ordinary neighbors with a good story, NHPR has produced compelling radio for New Hampshire, by New Hampshire. These stories are the components of the NHPR archives, and on this blog we'll dust off some old stories that are newly relevant, and even find some that were never broadcast. We hope to demonstrate how we've changed as a state by charting our narrative on a longer scale.

From The Archives: Links

This week, I'm packing up another batch of old tape reels from the NHPR archive, which I'll send to Crawford Media in Atlanta for digitization (or "migration", as they call it). I'll be documenting the process on the blog, so check back next week to see how it's moving. We worked with them last spring to digitize about 300 of our tape reels, courtesy of the American Archive Content Inventory Project (more below).

This is great news, because this batch will contain the last (roughly) 300 tape reels in our archive. These represent the most delicate assets in our archive; and to have them all digitized means we can not only access the audio more easily, but share it with you more easily. Among the recordings in this batch are Gov. Judd Gregg's State of the State Address from 1991, a recording of the WEVO Jazz Festival from 1985, and NHPR's live coverage of the 1984 general election. 

This is all to say that I have no new-old audio for you this week. So instead I've collected a bunch of links for those interested about our archives project, or just plain old history buffs.

  • The American Archive of Public Broadcastingis what has allowed NHPR to gain access to hundred of hours of audio trapped on legacy media (like tape reels).
  • WBEZ spokewith Karen Cariani about the American Archive Project (starts at about 54:30 in).
  • WNYC's Senior Archivist,  Marcos Sueiro Bal, had a great postabout the two factors with which archivists must wrestle to rescue audio from obsolete formats (ex. tape reels, wax cylinders, etc.).
  • NPR is remembering 1984 throughout the year on this Tumblr, which recently featured this humble blog.

More audio next week. 'Til then!

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