Radio or sound archives and their scarcity have been an ongoing researcher concern. This issue of the Journal of Radio & Audio Media features a symposium on Radio Research as Critical Archival Studies. The symposium showcases work from the recent conference of the Radio Preservation Task Force, which is a project of the Library of Congress's National Recording Preservation Board. This second conference of the Radio Preservation Task Force focused on the theme, "From Archive to Classroom." This theme emerges in the contributions to this issue's symposium. In their introduction to the symposium, Amanda Keeler and Josh Shepperd note that the record of media is incomplete (Keeler & Shepperd, 2019). As current director of the Radio Preservation Task Force, Shepperd notes that "radio's new association with the critical archival studies landscape makes it a promising avenue for coalitional work (p. 6)." Moving beyond the collection of archival materials, the crucial work to make materials available in the curriculum has begun.
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