An agreement between the Chicago History Museum and the Library of Congress will preserve in digital form thousands of hours of interviews that Studs Terkel conducted on Chicago radio station WFMT.
Russell Lewis of the CHM: “While we like to claim Studs as one of our own, he is a national treasure and he should have national-treasure status, something he gets with affiliation with the Library of Congress. I think he would be thrilled.”
The New York Times calls the agreement a “deal.” (It does involve Chicago.) Read more:
Terkel Coming Online (New York Times)
(Thanks to Stefan Hagemann for this news.)
Friday, May 14, 2010
Studs Terkel interviews, coming online
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