Content type: Spoken word / Format: Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.) - RPTF/ARSC Sound Collections Database Search Results

Description:: Collection of daily interview shows, news stories, topical reporting projects, and historical features.
Content types:: Spoken word and Still image
Formats:: Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.), and Text document
Extent:: "Main Street" (talk/interview show) currently over 4500 54 min. programs, Dakota Datebbok (short history feature), currently 4700, News stories starting in 1991, topical documentaries and special feature sets, 25
Repository/Collector:: Prairie Public Broadcasting

Description:: Transcription discs, tapes, and sound files spanning the Old Time Radio era.
Content types:: Sounds (Other than music & language) and Spoken word
Formats:: Pressed LP disc, Pressed 78rpm disc, Lacquer disc, Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Metal disc, Analog audiocassette, Digital Audio Tape (DAT), Polyester open reel tape, Acetate open reel tape, Paper open reel tape, Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.), and Microfilm
Extent:: 1000+ lacquer transcription discs, 100,000+ wav files
Repository/Collector:: Sammy Jones

Description:: Episodes of the radio program Jazz City, produced weekly at WRST-FM in Oshkosh, Wisconsin during the years 1966-2008.
Content types:: Performed music and Spoken word
Formats:: Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Analog audiocassette, Digital Audio Tape (DAT), and Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)
Extent:: Eight episodes: two from 1981, three from 1991, one from 1996 and one from 1997
Repository/Collector:: WRST-FM

Description:: The Gay Peoples Union Collection presents digital copies of primary source materials documenting GPU and Milwaukee’s gay liberation movement. Materials were selected from the following collections held by the Division of Archives and Special Collections of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries: the Gay Peoples Union Records, GPU News, and the Eldon Murray Papers.
Content types:: Spoken word and Text
Formats:: Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Analog audiocassette, Open reel tape (unknown material), and Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)
Extent:: 1.2 cubic ft. (4 boxes), 29 audio reels, 1 audio cassette
Repository/Collector:: University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
Online finding aid:: View on digicoll.library.wisc.edu

Description:: OTR, NTR, BBC, Foreign OTR, and any dramatic audio.
Content types:: Dramatic Audio Productions, Performed music, and Spoken word
Formats:: Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Analog audiocassette, and Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)
Extent:: 350,000+
Repository/Collector:: Ted Davenport

Description:: Collection comprises 135 15-minute episodes of Freedom Story, a radio program produced by Spiritual Mobilization, Inc., from 1951 to 1956. The programs feature dramatizations on conservative and libertarian themes and commentary.
Content types:: Spoken word
Formats:: Analog audiocassette and Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)
Extent:: 135 digital audio files
Repository/Collector:: University of Oregon Special Collections and University Archives
Online finding aid:: View on archiveswest.orbiscascade.org

Description:: Recordings of a San Francisco Bay Area independent radio news program from 1984-1987 covering labor issues with a primary focus on California. Includes numerous interviews with local labor leaders regarding significant strikes and labor struggles such as the historic Latina-led Watsonville Cannery Strike, United Farm Workers' (UFW) "Wrath of Grapes" campaign, and the month-long SEIU Local 250 Kaiser healthcare workers strike; as well as issues regarding AIDS, plant closures, and other workplace concerns.
Content types:: Spoken word
Formats:: Analog audiocassette and Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)
Extent:: 27 audiocassette tapes
Repository/Collector:: Labor Archive and Research Center, J. Paul Leonard Library

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