Television coverage has impacted politics through the years. Cspan founder, brian lamb, moderated the Panel Discussion with two former u. S. Representative from indiana, steve buyer and tim roemer. Rolealso talked about the of social media and its impact on politics. Good evening. Welcome to the 30th anders bursary anniversary celebration of the cspan archives. I am robert browning, the director of the archives. Ago this month that we turned on the vhs machine. I have to explain what those are. Noise as theyt of rewound. We round it is all digital recording. Was to indexgoal it and make it available for public use. Fun 30 years later to look at how those goals have been met which is what our panel is about. Back then, the internet did not exist. Digital recording was unknown. The cloud was something you watched in the sky. Vision a vision of what could be if we kept this material not knowing how it would be used and we are creating the future of american democracy the history of americ
Community Heritage Grants Recipients 2017
The Community Heritage Grants (CHG) program provides grants of up to $15,000 to community organisations such as libraries, archives, museums, genealogical and historical societies, multicultural and Indigenous groups. The grants are provided to assist with the preservation of locally owned, but nationally significant collections of materials that are publicly accessible including artefacts, letters, diaries, maps, photographs, and audio visual material.
In 2017, 56 grants were awarded, totalling $356,843.
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