Volunteer/Donate: A Dream to Preserve TV News, on the Road to Realization… with Your Help

[morgandawn]

The Internet Archive posted this in Jan 2014:

"We are about to receive a remarkable private collection of video taped U.S. television news that spans 35 years.  We welcome contributions of TV news recorded before the year 2001 to help broaden our research library.

Marion Marguerite Stokes, a librarian, social justice advocate and TV interview program host, believed that it was vital to preserve television news.

Mrs. Stokes started recording news at home in 1977 — and never stopped. Before her death in December 2012 she recorded 140,000 video cassettes. Her family searched for a home for her unique collection and found us in June.

It is a unique collection of local news from Boston (1977-1986) and Philadelphia (1986-2012), as well as all the national news. The Boston era is particularly notable for the busing/desegregation strife that raged throughout."

To donate: https://archive.org/donate 

And if you live in the San Francisco Bay Area and want to volunteer: https://archive.org/about/volunteerpositions.php They are looking for people to staff events, to help them run VHS machines and burn DVDs, and to scan books.