Full-Text ARSC Journals available free online

I received the following e-mail today from Bill Klinger through the ARSC Listserv. It is very encouraging to see how slowly, but steadily important information resources for our field become more accessible. Such activities facilitate research and early-day practice in the audio archives:

The Outreach Committee of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections
(ARSC) posts the following message.

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