“WGBH has created an unparalleled Selected Collections From the MLA Media Library public media archive with over 350,000 With some 350,000 media resources in various forms, the MLA represents one and Archives master-level materials on various formats of the nation’s most important archives of public media history. The following including videotape, film and audiotape. are just a small sampling of programs and series in the extensive collections. The Campaign for WGBH These materials, many vulnerable EDUCATION AND CHILDREN’S MEDIA JOURNALISM to complete deterioration, must be Arthur The Advocates Curious George Basic Black* preserved and digitized so that they can If You Live in a City, Where Do You Live?* FRONTLINE* The Kindergarten Child* FRONTLINE Special Report: Comrades* be available for future generations. We Long Ago and Far Away* Louis Lyons and the News are literally in a race against time.” Rebop* The March on Washington Teaching Math: A Video Library The Nader Report KAREN CARIANI, DAVID O. IVES EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, The New Voice* Say Brother* WGBH MEDIA LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? War and Peace in the Nuclear Age Zoom WGBH Ten O’Clock News*

HISTORY, ART & CULTURE SCIENCE American Experience* Discovering Women* American Playhouse* Evolution Antiques Roadshow Fast Cars and Science Ascent of Man The Machine That Changed the World Boston Symphony Orchestra NOVA* Julia Child and Company* NOVA/FRONTLINE Special Report Korea: The Unknown War* NOVA ScienceNow Masterpiece Of Science and Scientists Rock and Roll Race to Save the Planet* Vietnam: A Television History Science by the Sea

*Indicates items supported by NEH challenge grant.

7% AMOUNT OF CONTENT DIGITIZED

1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. PRESERVING & SHARING 83,000 10–15 60+ NUMBER OF MEDIA YEARS OF TIME BEFORE YEARS OF MEDIA HISTORY IN RESOURCES UNPRESERVED MLA FILM, WGBH ARCHIVES, ONE OF THE DEMANDING IMMEDIATE VIDEO & AUDIO RECORDINGS MOST SIGNIFICANT PRESERVATION ARE LOST FOREVER COLLECTIONS IN THE WORLD A RACE The 1972 cast of ZOOM, a WGBH Master Control operations Alistair Cooke, who, for 22 years between groundbreaking WGBH-produced in 1978 or 1979 1971 until 1992, hosted Masterpiece Theatre, AGAINST TIME educational TV program, which now Masterpiece, WGBH’s award-winning aired on PBS for six years beginning showcase of quality British television in 1972

“There are not enough funding resources for preservation The Promise of Preservation In 2018, WGBH received a $750,000 challenge Media by the People, for the People Archiving Modern America Preserve History. Protect the MLA. grant from the National Endowment for the The WGBH Media Library and Archives The MLA’s rich media documentation of the Support for WGBH’s MLA helps ensure that projects like ours,” laments Karen Cariani, the David O. Ives Humanities (NEH) to hasten preservation (MLA) preserves and shares a great national The MLA brings iconic WGBH media to producers, scholars, researchers, civil rights movement, Vietnam, presidential American history remains available to all, so and digital archiving activities of the WGBH treasure—one of the world’s richest archives of elections, rock and roll concerts, James that future generations of scholars and citizens Executive Director of the Media Library and Archives. collection, specifically focusing on 83,000 educators, students, lifelong learners and the public through a number of film, video and audio recordings dating to 1946 Baldwin’s incisive cultural commentary have unfettered, free access to one of America’s items most vulnerable to deterioration. The venues and projects as well as footage licensing. Onsite research at WGBH “There is a rich history that has been chronicled over the and covering many of the most culturally and and the resignation of Richard Nixon—and most significant collections of public media. grant calls for a 4:1 match, or $3 million in historically important events of our time. is open to the public by appointment. thousands of hours more—offers a compelling years by public media. Yet, as the years go by, this record of matching dollars. Gifts directed at specific collections or efforts visual and audio record of our times. From the beginning, the drive and focus for within the MLA, funds earmarked for digitiza- our nation’s history—news, culture, science—becomes OPEN VAULT resulted in the preservation of more than WGBH has been on creating compelling “…it can be argued that WGBH is tion and preservation, naming opportunities for 50,000 hours of programming from some 100 increasingly vulnerable.” programs and leading public media. Today, currently designing and…implementing MLA’s digital archive, openvault.wgbh.org, “...the WGBH Archives will usher many facilities, endowed positions—all of these repre- public media organizations across the country. recognizing the extraordinary resource the most ambitious and cutting-edge provides free online access to unique and scholars into the video age, and for the first sent important ways that philanthropic support More than 30,000 items are available online. represented by the MLA, our attention turns digital humanities project in the U.S., historically important content produced by time give researchers real access to valuable, can help WGBH make history by preserving it. Efforts to preserve and digitize the archives have been toward preservation of the archive we have at least related to the history of media WGBH and digitized for viewing by the public. irreplaceable data with which to inform BOSTON TV NEWS DIGITAL LIBRARY built and ensuring that future media assets are and technology.” Providing direct access to vast quantities their scholarship.” LEARN MORE gaining steam, but time is of the essence. Volunteer A collaboration between WGBH, the Boston DR. JAMES BLIGHT, Professor of International properly preserved as they are created. DR. JOSH SHEPPERD, Assistant Professor of of historically significant content, the site Public Library, Cambridge Community Relations, Watson Institute for International transcription events and a crowd-sourced approach to Due to the ephemeral nature of film stock and Media Studies and Director of the Library of also serves as a search tool of the archive, Find out how you can help shape the Television and Northeast Historic Film, the Studies, Brown University magnetic media, much of the material in this Congress Radio Preservation Task Force, Catholic generally where users can request that future of WGBH. For more detailed digitization on demand are helpful, but efforts must accel- Boston TV News Digital Library makes available astonishing collection is rapidly deteriorating. University of America specific resources be digitized on demand. information about funding opportunities local news stories produced in and around Hailed alongside the Library of Congress as erate. That’s why philanthropic support is so important. In order to avoid any loss, it must be preserved and ways to give, please contact: AMERICAN ARCHIVE OF Boston between 1960 and 2000. Nearly “the gold standard” in media archives by noted within the next decade, and saving the most In the context of this important challenge grant Winifred Lenihan PUBLIC BROADCASTING 2,000 news programs are available online. journalist Steven V. Roberts, the MLA includes vulnerable materials over the next four years is a and the Campaign for WGBH, there’s never Vice President, Development the 1963 premier episode of The French Chef central goal of the Campaign for WGBH. There been a better time to support MLA’s efforts. In 2013, the Corporation for Public 617.300.3804 STOCK SALES AND LICENSING starring Julia Child on 16 mm film; interviews has never been a better or more critical moment Gifts made during the Campaign and directed Broadcasting awarded WGBH and the Library [email protected] and release signatures from Martin Luther King, to support this historic effort to preserve this toward MLA will be counted toward both the of Congress joint stewardship of an historic At wgbhstocksales.org, the WGBH Stock Jr., Malcolm X and other civil rights leaders; and Lisa Bevilaqua unique record of American culture and history. NEH challenge grant and Campaign goals. collection of American public radio and Sales and Licensing website, producers, early recordings from the Lowell Broadcasting Associate Vice President | Campaign Director Philanthropic support can and will make a sig- television content dating back to the early filmmakers and others can search rights- ready clips and discover additional material Institute dating back to 1946. And that is just the 617.300.3684 “the world should be more like nificant impact in preserving WGBH’s archives. 1950s with the goal of permanently preserving available for licensing by WGBH. tip of the iceberg. A climate-controlled vault at [email protected] @wgbharchives—this Open Vault is cool...” the collection and making it available to the public through the American Archive of Public WGBH headquarters houses some 350,000 SOCIAL MEDIA COMMENT Broadcasting (AAPB). This collaboration has archival items at a cool 62˚F and a dry 35% humidity. More material is housed offsite.