I want to introduce our panelists. We will go in the order listed in your program. So this panel and National Heritage and we are going to hear first from jane gilden and a member of npr who will talk about how they created the npr historical archive. Good morning everybody. This is a jane, my colleague. We are from the Research Archive and Data Strategy team at the National Public radio. We are known as rad. Please make sure to introduce yourself and say hello. Sittingf rad officer is in the front, will also be presenting tomorrow at a plenary session. Please make sure you attend her talk. We are here to tell you about nprs historical archives in 2013 from scratch while we were during the move to a new building. Always valued research and archives. We have had an expertly organized audio archive going back to the beginning of all ofngs considered at the end may 1989. One of the first persons they hired was a researcher exclusively to help in the newsroom. Having said all of that, we have never had an inhouse collection npr historical items as i from our audio and metadata about the show. If any items were saved they were saved by individuals at their own desks, probably produced by them or they inherited from someone else and kept it in their own space. Relationship we have had with the archives has been with the university of maryland and they have stored some paper archives for us, papers. Roduction it is unknown how many items were kept for npr during the worktime during their time with npr. When they left a organization, they probably took along with them. A lot of them might have been drawn away and lost forever. For let us set the theme 2012 and 2013. Moved into its new location near chinatown, which some of you might have visited that building. We have most of that to building into the 1990s from the location we had previously. Hadnpr organization outgrown that space. In 2012, after several years of planning, npr was planning to move to a new headquarters which in theping some of you audience visited yesterday and had a chance to see the amazing new headquarters. Npr had already been in planning and rad team had already been working with the move team in terms of preparing how to move the audio collection. Collectiong audio was and plans to move. A head of the move, management started asking employees to kindly clean their desks, purge their documents and desk areas. General counsel created a documentation retention policy, was fairly jay carney and in terms of what should be thrown out and of course, there was no fairly draconian and in terms of what should be thrown out, there was no clear plan. We thought we were mandated to create an historical archive. We had a lot of challenges. Imagine trying to educate our colleagues. We had a race against time. We had to secure a spot. We had to make sure we were physically collecting as many items as possible and we had to preserve those items and move them to our new location. How did we educate our colleagues . Whatid we explain to them a record is . We used the National ArchivesAdministration Guidelines to teach them what it means to secure an historical item. We had to teach them what it is that is of value. What can have value in the future. Historically and financially. It that tellss is a unique story about npr. Unfortunately could not have our presentation slides but we had many different examples theh patti said showed paddy said which showed the relationship with listeners. Painting. E, a Susan Sanders used to share every thanksgiving a relish recipe hand a listener painted a picture of somebody making that recipe. Also, we had a pair of slippers with the npr logo on them sent to us by our listeners. Somebody had to keep all of these items. Decide within our organization. We had to find people who supported our mission. People who had already been keeping their own little archives and convince them to share it with us and give it to us. We found that looking for allies in unexpected places often yielded incredible results. Get 24 boxes from our Engineering Department which describe the whole department andory, function, importance. They trusted us and gave all of that to us. People trusted us with confidential information. People trusted us with Sensitive Information that otherwise they would not have shared with others and we also received 14 boxes of photos which, at that point, as established our photo archives. It did not exist before. Those photos, those found images of carl and peter. We found a lot of a amazing images of very early days of all Things Considered and orning and edition. And with that, i will hand it to my colleague, jane. Thanks, ada. I want to describe that picture of peter and carl. Share mored to energy on twitter. If you can imagine, peter sehgal pno and carla castle has draped himself over piano lovingly, just to say hello to peter. These were political shots and definitely demonstrated how carl transformede into who we know he is today on , whichit dont tell me has a bit of a humorous edge to it. One of the first things we had to do was think about space consideration. Ate itpartners who mentioned to ely or who had a capacity to receive information from us and we knew we would have much space. Not have much space. The best weoing could in collections by department and individuals. Perhaps some of the most dramatic parts were after everyone had left our old holding we went in, a team of us, and went fourtofloor to see what was left behind and what archival items needed to be safe. Great dramatic. We have incredible pictures. If anyone has ever been in an abandoned off as before, it has a very apocalyptic feel. It is incredible the number of shoes people left behind. Those did not make it into our archival collection. [laughter] our we worked with partners at you m. D. To help preserve. Was of hight historical or financial value or had confidential information or or still ininished production we kept in our collection. We really found some pretty incredible things, one of which on a bird that was named drudge. A stuffed parrot that has her hang up. To she hunt in the morning edition area for a long time. In the morning for a long time. We also found a laptop. One of our reporters was reporting from iraq in 2005, she was in a car that was fired up. Luckily, no one was hurt. When they got to the destination they found her laptop had it hit by a bullet. It is a panasonic. But it was eventually given to an executive at npr who gave it to their assistant to take care of and the assistant brought it to us to take care of. Ofis an incredible piece history from npr, detailed in youbook this is npr, and can also find more information about it at our website at npr. Org. So we not only receive these physical items, but we also received a digital items from people who wanted to share a copy. We had to grapple with digital storage, naming conventions, and capturing all of the metadata associated so we can find it later. As weve physically created the inventory we also had to create policies and guidelines around its existence. We of course looked to other institutions that had established best practices. Our Current Situation is different ban a few years ago. We have a lot more items that you m. D. Available to the public for research. A rich history. We had volunteers into interns work with us on inventory projects and we have at least two collections fully inventoried and several more partially inventory. That time toate at create the archive from our internal partners and we capitalized on that so we can find the historical record for npr and move forward. Some of the lessons we wanted to share with you because i am sure a lot of your institutions are looking at historical archives, whether they are previously created or not. To identify institutional memories within the organization. People were help all and giving us names of others to talk to or others are at cap aims to make sure they had not been lost. To make surehings they had not been lost. We found allies in unexpected places, do not discount someone based on the department they are in and someone you do not think have a highho might recognition of historical value. And make sure you talk to your coworkers about what has historical value. Reach out to archivists and his historians locally. Also, feel free to reach out to us if you would like more information or guidance or best practices we could share. Take you all for coming. We appreciate it. You can find us on a lot up social media sites. We are npr underscore rand on ter read on twitter andrad on twitter instagram. I would like to turn things over to chuck howell whois librarian for journalism and Communication Studies at the university of maryland who will op goes to war, the voice of the people during world war ii. Chuck first of all i would like to say it is a shame we did not have the slides, but if you ask tomorrow nicely, perhaps someone will take you down to the bowels of the holding where the parent is in plain sight, as well as various, helmets and bulletproof vest and Satellite Uplinks from 1993 that are as big as a portable bar or something. It is a great collection. I am here to talk about fox pop pop, a great collection at the university of maryland. Anyone who has ever touched vo p pop pretty much is here today. Marryial shout out to from the university of congress. Michael henry, are you here . Michael henry, who without his work on this collection over literally decades, i would not be able to tell you some of the things i am going to tell you today micah of the university of congress who at that time was at the university of maryland and took me on a very educational trip to texas and picked this collection up from the son of the gentlemen i will tell you about at the ranch in wimberley, where mr. Johnson, and the vox popof fox pop retired to. We had a great time in texas. In charge who is now of that collection of him on the other things at the university of mary and stop at the university of maryland. Vox pop is an amazing collection and amazing show. Radios contribution to the war effort during the conflict was immeasurable. Not only did it provide the government with the best means of communicating to the populace as well as back about wartime programs such as rationing and sugar conversation and things of that nature. It also provided millions of lonely soldiers on base is with entertainment and news. Only one program, though, that we are aware of regularly taught of theput the voice average american on the homefront during this war in soldiers training to go a freeseas on the air for the and soldiers training to go overseas on the air. An abbreviation of the latin for voice of the people. It was one of the first interview shows going back to the early days of the depression. It became one of the biggest homefront morel boosters and ale boosters. One of the first Human Interest shows. Probably one of the besttravel programs and broadcast history. I think you will begin to understand that vox pop was a very unusual program. In 1932, and if i can get this to work this picture, as the caption says, was taken in 19 85. We do not have any pictures that i know what from the very early days of the show when it was first in houston and then on something called the texas quality network, i believe. A small regional hook up of stations in texas. Sound. Some you might have to boost it because it starts soft. Sound from one of the prenetwork shows that we were fortunate enough to have. Start sound recording] two of those have the microphone and we hope they will interest you. [indiscernible] me frombeside what you have read in the rs, the lindbergh kidnapping. From the newspapers. Can you tell us a you formed to that opinion pressure mark he looked like a man that would be capable of [indiscernible] that incredible . That little snippet is indicative of the entire program. I mean, just this one recording from early 1935, right before isy were picked up by nbcs, just a treasure trove of information about texas, about Mass Communication at that time, about accents, dialects, the average educational attainments of your houston man on the street. There is just so much that can be unpacked just from what one program in this series. To the important oft, which is the giving out dollar bills for the correct answers to a variety of lightertopic questions like biblical references and movie stars and work. He asks him later, do you think you could addlive and he says, i do not know i would have to see him first. He thinks ad lib is somebodys name. It starts out as a man on the street show where they would dangle him i could from the second story of the hotel where the station was. Portable equipment not being in existence at the time, at least for texas. Time, and this may be an impossible story, but one day a quick squall came through the streets of houston while they were on the air and the streets were deserted. Everybody went inside. So supposedly, one of the creators of the program it was up amin at k trh rounded crew, ran into a coffee shop, got change for a dollar bill and started interviewing one of the technicians and giving him a dollar for every question he answered right. Released in they were mobbed. People were coming out of the woodwork. This was depression air at texas and one dollar was one dollar. Secondly, they invented the quiz show or at least one of the very earliest incarnations of a question and answer with prices type program. Said they were picked up for nbc inl distribution by the summer of 1935. There for show was on july 7. They would do a brief interview h people before they got before they got to the important part with contestants. They kept demand man on the street interview kind of style but it sort of took a backseat to the question and answer part. Of broadcasting from lobbies around new york, hotels, lobbies, Grand Central station, anywhere they could get a lot of people passing by they could throw in front of a microphone. Is notcture here actually will rogers, as much as it might look like them. It is a taken in 1938, will rogers impersonator. A lookalike will stop he won a lookalike contest. As the rogers had unfortunately been dead a couple years before this time. But this is here not only because i had to really look twice. This guy really does look a lot like will rogers, but also to show you the kind of information that mr. Johnson meticulously over 2100very one of photographs associated with the collection and we will see some of his notes for every episode later as we get deeper into this. Your left, you see parks and wally butterworth. His first partner, jerry belcher, briefly made the transition to new york but unfortunately had a drinking problem and had to be let go. Butterworth was an established announcer who was tapped for the job. We have cbs and nbs microphones represented here. They jumped networks pretty frequently in the early days until they settled into cbs for a long stretch. Wally watching the microphone and you see what a typical show would look like with people mobbing the microphone and one of the cutest york there. In new that is mr. Johnson holding the child. Program continued to give money away. They would also get involved in banks like this, where they sponsored a silly hat contest and people sent in entries to the show. It all started out with a ridiculous at that woman was wearing on the show. I do not think they told her her hat was ridiculous, it was just a grandiose at in those days of high millinery fashion and they just went with it. Itwas not as scripted as would later become or is organized as it would later become and these are two winning entries in laundry day had so you could drier clothing as you but id down fifth avenue guess you have to be pretty small to where some of these close. And ferdinand, like ferdinand the full was popular at like was populare bull at that time. They went to the worlds fair and broadcast for a large chunk of 1939 from there. Electro, are meeting the motor man as he ws called. Smoke coming out of his the and wally is treating dog as in ottoman. There are lots of pictures like that. They would interview a serious scientist at bell labs and would even go to bell labs. They traveled all over the place. Two fairs, two events, movie openings. Here they are at dell labs. Labs. L this is the guy who invented the artificial voice synthesis in the late 1930s and what did they do . They started quizzing him and giving him dollar bills rather than talking about his invention. They briefly talk about it but you can see money in his hands right there. What is funny as some of these celebrities, like here we have Fred Mcmurray had murray, would actually get really excited about winning some money even know their salary was 50 times the average of a regular american. Answeringdea of questions right and being handed money seemed amazing to people. There is a show from 1940, the ly rose appliqued a one of thewhere actors makes a full of himself over some of the money. Gimme, it is hilarious to listen to. So they would go on the road a lot to it visit with the stars. Lead was a very patriotic gentleman. Clouds darkened that long before the United States was formally in the war and well welle it became and before it became a major topic of debate. How much help should we give britain, etc. , he started pushing the program into defense at that time. It was politically known as defense issues. This was the very first show they did on july 4, 1940, at the Merchant Marine Academy and they are on board a ship there. Takehe change started to place. Here, again, before the war was actually started they did a show froman apple is, not far here. They would do things for young soldiers like not far from they did a show from annapolis. I am going to have to pick up the pace. Here he is at west point. This is one of wallys last programs at four knocks. If you can just listen to some of this audio. Audio] monday, march 23, from fort knox, kentucky. Thepop, the voice of people. Tonight, box pop is vox pop is broadcasting from fort knox. When a terrific crowd we have. 4000 soldiers already to raise the roof. Ok. Cheering] say, that sounds like the whole army is here. Drags it you said it, bert. Fulks, there are folks from all uncle sams army. His armyoducing him as name, acting Sergeant Michael stevens. [applause] mike, what is your outfit . I am in the fifth detachment. Who is the commanding general . General henry. Yessiree. Henry, in your you doing company . I am acting supply sergeant. When you mean acting supplies under . That means i am still a private, but it is going in for a sec