The Digitization Station supports SISLT’s collaboration with KOPN Community Radio in providing access to time-based public media. As a participant in the IMLS-funded Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellowships (PBPF), the MU iSchool is committed to students’ skills-building with audiovisual archives. Students in the Archival Studies emphasis encounter audiovisual topics and issues throughout their coursework, in preparation for professional practice. Through ongoing activities including Audio Preservation Workshops and Research Discussion at The Bridge, the Digitization Station provides students with research experiences related to the expression, digitization, preservation and study of a community archive of national significance. Our KOPN subcollection in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting continues to expand at https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/kopn-women.

News and Updates

• February 2022: IMLS-funded Fellowship available for MLIS student archivist
• July 2021: Fellows and Faculty Advisor presentation at AERI 2021
• March 2020: KOPN in AAPB Online Learning Resources
• February 2020: KOPN in Transcribe to Digitize Challenge
• September 2019: Faculty Advisor Research Discussion at The Bridge
• March 2019 & 2021: KOPN Special Collection featured by AAPB for Women’s History Month
• November 2018: Fellows poster presentation at AMIA 2018
• October 2018: Faculty Advisor, Fellows, and Project Director presentation at Digital Preservation 2018
• August 2018: Fellows and Faculty Advisor poster presentation at SAA Research Forum 2018
• August 2, 2018: Campuswide Audio Preservation Workshop led by Fellow at SISLT
• April 7, 2018: Campuswide presentation by Fellow at SISLT Spring Conference 2018
• October 2017: School of Information Science and Learning Technology Will Use Technology to Save Local History

PBPF Project Website

Contact Dr. Sarah Buchanan at buchanans@missouri.edu for more information.