Welcome to our new Ward Irish Music Archives, WIMA, blog. Because we have so much going on here at WIMA we hope that this blog will be a good way to communicate with those interested in our projects and activities.

One recent event was the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, ARSC, conference which was hosted by the Library of Congress in Washington DC this past weekend.

We had a great time at the conference mingling with many others who have a love for collecting and preserving our “aural” history.

We got to see the new Packard Campus of the Library of Congress in Culpeper, VA. This is the new home of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center (NAVCC), an amazing facility. See link
http://www.loc.gov/avconservation/packard/

We also gave a presentation of the life and times of Morton Downey.

Next week we’re off to the Fort Collins Irish Fest where we’ll be taking our “History of Irish Rock Music” exhibit.

Barry Stapleton