Links to Related Resources
Archives and Libraries Section
- American Folklife
Center: Resources in Ethnographic Studies. Includes links
to archives.
- Caring For
Your Collections, Preservation Directorate, Library of Congress.
- The Ethnographic Thesaurus Project, a joint
effort of the American Folklore Society and the American Folklife Center at the Library of
Congress to develop a comprehensive controlled list of terms to be used in describing
ethnographic research collections.
- Folklife Heritage
Collections in Crisis Symposium and Products American Folklife
Center, Library of Congress with the Council on Library and Information
Resources (CLIR). Includes full text of presentations and the post-syposium
report prepared by CLIR.
- Folklife Sourcebook:
A Directory of Folklife Resources in the United States,
Peter Bartis and Stephanie Hall. American Folklife Center, Library
of Congress. Includes a chapter listing ethnographic and ethnomusicological
archives in the U.S.
- New York Folklore Society.
Provides publications on archival practice for folklife collections.
- Save Our Sounds preservation
project, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution.
- Save Our Sounds
preservation project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
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