American Archive of Public Broadcasting
 Casey Davis: Why Archive Public Media?, 2016, 19:48, WGBHforum
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Karen Cariani: The History of Public Media and the AAPB, 2016, 29:42, WGBHforum
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 The American Town: A Self-Portrait: Durand, Michigan, 1967, 29:50, American Archive of Public Broadcasting |
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Prospects of Mankind with Eleanor Roosevelt; What Status For Women?, 59:07, 1962. Eleanor Roosevelt, chair of the Commission, interviews President John F. Kennedy, Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg and others, Open Vault from WGBH via AAPB |
The American Archive of Public Broadcasting is a collaboration of the Library of Congress and WGBH Educational Foundation, founded through the efforts of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Its Online Reading Room, providing access to a large amount of American public broadcasting content, opened in October, 2015.
About 20% of the 40,000 hours of broadcasting in the collection is accessible in the United States via the Online Reading Room. Public access to the entire collection is available at the WGBH Media Library and Archives on Guest Street in Boston, Massachusetts or at the James Madison Memorial Building of the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Sound recordings are available at the Recorded Sound Research Center at the Performing Arts Reading Room and video is available at the Moving Image Research Center of the library. Appointments are often required at any of these facilities.
Funders include the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the Council on Library and Information Resources, and Institute of Museum and Library Services.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) began inventorying US public media content in 2007. By 2013, 2.5 million items had been inventoried including 40,000 hours of broadcasting which was being digitized with funding from the CPB. An advisory council, which included Ken Burns, John W. Carlin, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Cokie Roberts, Stephen D. Smith, Margaret Spellings, Howard Stringer, and Jesús Salvador Treviño, recommended that a collaboration between WGBH and the Library of Congress form and operate the archive.
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