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Appraisal of audiovisual material should take into account the high cost of preservation to make the media accessible for the future. Always ask yourself: Is this something worth adding to the collection, describing at the item level, and providing long-term access? Additionally, if the material is from a television or radio broadcast available elsewhere, you may not need to keep the material or if it is kept, it can get a very low priority for digitization in AVDCtracker. For TV news broadcasts, see Vanderbilt Television News Archive: http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/
The C-Span archive has most of its content available for streaming, at: http://www.c-span.org/search/
Discuss appraisal decisions with Joanne. See workflow section for more specific suggestions about research to assist with appraisal.
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