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A treasure trove in All India Radio's sound archives

"A rich treasure trove that not many know of, and even fewer have access to. Here, the air is thick with echoes from the past."

The All India Radio (AIR) sound archives is the largest library of music recordings in India, and also contains a large collection of spoken word recordings including interviews ranging from Pearl S Buck to George Harrison, speeches by Subhash Chandra Bose and public addresses by Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, and many others.

IASA Journal, Issue 43 is now available online!

Fellow IASA members --

I'm thrilled to announce the arrival of the latest issue of the IASA Journal—issue 43. The print version is hot off the press and will be packaged and shipped to you or your institution very soon! In the meantime, IASA members can access the electronic version of the journal on the IASA website at the following address:

http://iasa-web.org/iasa-journal-no-43-july-2014

IASA Executive Board 2014 elections: cast your vote!

2014 is an election year for the IASA Executive Board.

As required by the constitution, a nominating committee was appointed at the 2013 conference and a call for nominees was undertaken.  The nomination process is now complete and the committee is pleased to announce the results (viewable by logged-in IASA members):

Preview of IASA Journal Issue 43

Over the past few months many of our IASA colleagues have been diligently preparing a new slate of articles that together will constitute the upcoming IASA Journal Issue 43, which will be delivered to your door in early July.

Following is a preview of the articles that are included in this issue:

The Cost of Inaction: A New Model and Application for Quantifying the Financial and Intellectual Implications of Decisions Regarding Digitization of Physical Audiovisual Media Holdings
[Chris Lacinak, AVPreserve, USA]

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