The Rockefeller Foundation. (Notes for Notes).(makes donation to support Save Our Sounds project to preserve American folklore)(Brief Article)

The Rockefeller Foundation has awarded a grant of $250,000 in support of the Save Our Sounds audio preservation project, a joint initiative undertaken by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress and the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage at the Smithsonian Institution. Save Our Sounds is supported by Save America's Treasures, a public-private partnership of the National Park Service and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The purpose of the project is to restore, preserve, describe, and digitize endangered sound recordings in the collections of the Library and the Smithsonian and to set standards for other institutions to preserve and make accessible their collections of sound recordings. The grant will help to finance this project over the remainder of the year 2002.

Already undergoing preservation treatment are sound recordings of traditional singers from New England, song and story-telling from the Pennsylvanian Germans, revival ...