| PG-258278-18 | Preservation and Access: Preservation Assistance Grants | Wartburg College | Stabilizing Film Collection Materials at Wartburg College/AIB and Improving Environmental Monitoring | 1/1/2018 - 6/30/2019 | $5,942.00 | Amy | M. | Moorman | | | | Wartburg College | Waverly | IA | 50677-2215 | USA | 2017 | American Studies | Preservation Assistance Grants | Preservation and Access | 5942 | 0 | 5942 | 0 | The
purchase of preservation supplies and environmental monitoring equipment (and
training for staff in its use), to help preserve approximately 23,000 film,
video, and audio resources. The Archive of Iowa Broadcasting’s holdings include
news broadcasts from local radio and television stations, as well as some
archival materials. Together, they cover a wide range of political, economic,
and cultural developments in Iowa since the 1920s.
The Archives of Iowa Broadcasting (AIB) contains oral histories, documents, photographs, promotional materials, artifacts and over 23,000 audiovisual recordings dating back to the early 1920s that document the history and development of radio and television in Iowa. These materials provide a wide variety of resources for research related to media and broadcasting, as well as 20th century regional and national social, political and cultural humanities topics. This project would provide equipment and supplies to rehouse the most at-risk items in the AIB’s film collection as well as purchase environmental monitoring equipment and provide training on its use. These tasks address specific concerns raised in a previous collection assessment and will further efforts to stabilize and preserve the AIB’s extensive audiovisual and other holdings for future researchers. |
| PG-52421-15 | Preservation and Access: Preservation Assistance Grants | Wartburg College | A Preservation Assessment for the Archive of Iowa Broadcasting at Wartburg College | 1/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 | $6,000.00 | Curtis | | Brundy | | | | Wartburg College | Waverly | IA | 50677-2215 | USA | 2014 | American Studies | Preservation Assistance Grants | Preservation and Access | 6000 | 0 | 6000 | 0 | A preservation assessment of the 14,000 audiovisual items in the Archive of Iowa Broadcasting, which not only documents nearly a century of Iowa history including agriculture, athletics, education, politics, economics, and business, but also the evolution of broadcast technology and some of the early pioneers of radio and television broadcasting. Major broadcasters represented in the collection are WMT radio and KGAN/WMT television (Cedar Rapids), KWWL television (Waterloo), KCRG television (Cedar Rapids), WHO radio and television (Des Moines), and KCCI television (Des Moises). The oral history collection contains interviews with over 100 Iowa broadcasters, including Bill Bolster, manager of KWWL-TV, who later founded CNBC; Iowa’s first female TV news anchor, Carole Custer; and Jimmie Porter, civil rights leader and founder of KBBG, one of the few African-American-owned radio stations in the country.
Wartburg College requests a grant of $6,000 to support an assessment and preparation of a report on the condition of the audiovisual collections held by the Archive of Iowa Broadcasting (AIB) at Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa. Mr. Joshua Ranger, Senior Consultant, AVPreserve of New York, NY, will conduct the assessment and prepare the report. The AIB is a collection of nearly 14,000 audiovisual items, and papers of broadcasters, oral histories, and ephemera from 1930 to the present. It is a rich resource for the history of broadcasting in Iowa and the Midwest as well as a unique primary source for the last 80 years of Iowa history. The goal of this project is to conduct a preservation assessment as the basis for ongoing work to ensure that these materials will be preserved and accessible to students, scholars, and the public.
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