"The ARSC Guide to Audio Preservation is a practical introduction to caring for and preserving audio collections. It is aimed at individuals and institutions that have recorded sound collections but lack the expertise in one or more areas to preserve them. Our audio legacy is at serious risk because ... of media deterioration, technological obsolescence, and, often, lack of accessibility. This legacy is remarkable in its diversity, ranging from wax cylinders of extinct Native American languages to tapes of local radio broadcasts, naturalists’ and ethnographers’ field recordings, small independent record company releases, and much more." (Publisher website) more

"The Library of Congress' Center for the Book surveys 32 book and book-related programs carried out by governmental, inter-governmental and private agencies in the U.S. to promote books and reading. In an introductory essay John B. Putnam discusses "The Book Crisis in the Developing World," and an a ... ppendix describes the activities of two important but now defunct organizations, Franklin Book Programs (1952-78) and the U.S. Government Advisory Committee on International Book and Library Programs (1962-77). Two earlier government publications are Books in Human Development, a 1965 report on a conference sponsored by American University and the U.S. Agency for International Development, and Who Is Doing What in International Book and Library Programs (1967), the proceedings of a conference sponsored by the International Relations Office of the American Library Association." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1025) more