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THE ARSC COMMUNITY
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ARSC 55th ANNUAL CONFERENCE and WORKSHOP
May 12-15, 2021 | Virtual Conference
ARSC’s 55th Annual Conference and Pre-Conference Workshop will be hosted online, May 12-15, 2021. Registration is now open. Read more....
NEWS and EVENTS
ARSC's announces third continuing education webinar, a presentation by Gerry Lawson (UBC Museum of Anthropology) and Elizabeth McManus (Musqueam Indian Band Archives) titled "Indigitization: A Practical Relationship-based Approach to Indigenous Community-Based Digitization." This webinar is free and open to the public! Read more...
The ARSC Journal 51.2 (Fall 2020) is now available online to members! The issue features four original articles, a new regular section on community archiving, and more! Read more...
The The Spring 2021 issue of the ARSC Newsletter is here! Catch up on recent ARSC news and more! Read more...
ARSC announces Awards for Excellence Winners for 2020, recognizing the very best in historical recorded sound research. Read more...
ARSC Opposes Racism and Police Brutality. The ARSC Board issued a statement opposing racism and police brutality and committing to initiatives to improve its operations. Read more...
ARSC announces award for Distinguished Service to ARSC. Congratulations to ARSC member Al Schlactmeyer on his outstanding contributions to ARSC over an extended period. Read more...
ARSC announces awards for Lifetime Achievement and Distinguished Service to Historical Recordings. Congratulations to ARSC members Kip Lornell and Doug Pomeroy for their outstanding achievements! Read more...
ARSC announces recipients of research grants designed to encourage and support scholarship and publication by individuals in the field of sound recordings or audio preservation. Read more....
The current issue of The ARSC Journal is now available online via AMP! for ARSC members. Be sure to check out Ray Moore's article with Victor Svorinich on studio life at Columbia Records, 1957-1995 and Albert Haim's research on Joe Venuti's "Running Ragged," along with Copyright & Fair Use, Book Reviews, and more.
The Collections Directory project led by ARSC and the Radio Preservation Task Force continues to accept collection submissions. If you have not already submitted information about your radio and radio-related collections to the project, please use the Google Form created for that purpose or contact William Vanden Dries. To view the current listing of collections in the directory, please visit arsc-audio2.org.
Introducing ARSCLIB: The ARSC Library and Archives Electronic Discussion List! ARSCLIB has been created to be a forum for discussing issues of concern to individuals who are responsible for caring for recorded sound collections within institutions. The discussions are expected to have a narrower professional focus than the main ARSCLIST, discussing issues such as collection policies, deaccessioning, cleaning, digitization, metadata, etc. To subscribe to ARSCLIB and/or ARSCLIST, go to www.arsc-audio.org/listservs.html.