Jim Duran came to his job knowing there would be challenges ahead.
It was February 2018, and he’d just been appointed director of the Vanderbilt Television News Archive, one of the world’s largest collections of news broadcasts from national networks such as ABC, CBS and NBC. The archive had been growing quickly and steadily since the day it was created in 1968.
Until the early 2000s, Vanderbilt University Libraries, which manages the VTNA, had turned to its own shelves to store the physical tapes used to record the broadcasts. That changed when the National Science Foundation awarded them a…
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