March 24, 2015, Filed Under: Digital Collections, Research + TeachingNational Endowment for the Humanities awards grant to preserve and enhance access to sound recordings The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded the Ransom Center a $18,900 grant to preserve and enhance access to the Ransom Center’s non-commercial sound recordings. The grant allows the Ransom Center to complete a preservation survey of more than 13,000 archival sound recordings to establish and document preservation… read more
December 21, 2012, Filed Under: Film“On the Road” actors used audio recordings from Ransom Center’s collections to prepare for roles The film On the Road, an adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s acclaimed novel of the same name, opens in theaters today. The Ransom Center holds a number of items related to the lives and works of the “Beat Generation” artists, including a journal Kerouac kept from 1948 to 1949 while preparing… read more
