Radio Preservation Task Force

About 

The Radio Preservation Task Force was created by the Library of Congress’s National Recording Preservation Board in 2014 to facilitate preservation of, research on and educational uses of radio recordings held by archiving institutions and private collectors in the United States. I have been involved in the Task Force for over a decade. I was the group’s Communications Director 2016-2018, and the Transnational Director from 2019-2021. I am currently a member of the Advisory Committee on International Radio Research. 

Key Research Areas

• Radio Archives and Preservation (Preservation Division)
• Radio History and Scholarship (Research Division)
• Promoting the use of archival radio and sound archives in education (Education Division)
• African American Civil Rights Caucus
• College, Community, and Educational Radio Caucus 

Current Projects

• Cold War Communication Project
• Evolution and Legacy of Black Radio Culture
• Sound Collections Database
• Sound Submissions (digital humanities project facilitate donations and placement of sound and radio archives) 

Recent Publications

• Recent Transmissions is the RPTF newsletter. Most recent issue 2024-Aug-Issue7-RPTF-RecentTransmissions
• Ehrick, Christine. “Journalism and Broadcasting.” Introduction and curated selected of audio holdings on women and broadcasting in Studs Terkel Radio Archive first published August 2019 https://studsterkel.wfmt.com/explore/topics/journalism-broadcasting
• Ehrick, Christine. “Teaching Radio History to Help Save It?: Listening, Radio Preservation, and the History Classroom.” In Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol. 4 (3): “Teaching with Primary Sources Media Studies and the Archive,” Kate Fortmueller and Laura Isabel Serna, eds.  published online May 31, 2017 https://www.teachingmedia.org/teaching-radio-history-help-save-listening-radio-preservation-history-classroom/
• Ehrick, Christine. “Radio Archives and Preservation in Latin America: A Preliminary Overview.” Article included in special issue of Journal of Radio and Audio Media: Radio Preservation Task Force. Vol. 23 No. 2 (2016), 381-388.  

Team 

• Director: Shawn Van Cour, UCLA
• Conference Director: Neil Verma, Northwestern Univ.
• Chair and Sound Submissions Director: Josh Sheppard, Univ. of Colorado Boulder