Birmingham Black Radio Museum

The Birmingham Black Radio Museum (BBRM) project will complete digitization and access to the museum's collection of oral histories and interviews of radio personalities, civil rights leaders, authors, and entertainers. Only 10 percent of the oral history collection is currently available for the public at www.thebbrm.org. With IMLS funding, the museum will digitize 100 percent of these resources, while creating a blog for public discussion, questions and donation requests. The project will allow the director to devote additional time to post-editing and supervising the continued digitization of the archival materials, all of which reflect a direct connection to the history of Birmingham, Alabama. The University of Alabama School of Library and Information Sciences will provide student intern digitizers and transcribers to assist with this work and the historic Carver Theatre will provide work space in support of the project.