Scope + Content Founded in 1976, the Media Access and
Preservation Center has a mission to acquire, organize, preserve
and provide access to the WGBH Educational Foundation's
production assets and historical records, whether paper-based,
magnetic or digital in nature. The Archives holds extensive
footage from WGBH news programming, including nearly 10,000
tapes from The Ten O'Clock News library, and from its
predecessor, Evening Compass. A grant from the Institute of
Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has allowed the Archives to
preserve and digitize a portion of its Ten O'Clock News
collection. The 523 tapes included in this project focus on
coverage of the local and national African American community
and related civil rights issues from 1974 to 1991. The Archives
has been making a concerted effort to identify and preserve
materials in the WGBH collection that document the local and
national African American community. The justification for this
focus is based on the dearth of historical moving image collec