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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