NAMLE and TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PARTNER 
ON ARCHIVES PROJECT
 
We are excited to announce that NAMLE will be assembling our archives to be housed at Temple University Libraries. NAMLE has been gathering materials for several years, prompted by the development of the Elizabeth Thoman Media Literacy Archives, also housed at Temple University Libraries.  The NAMLE archives will include materials from past NAMLE conferences, board of director's meetings, and events. The archive will also include materials from the Alliance for a Media Literate America (AMLA) and the Partnership for Media Education, prior organizational names for NAMLE.
 
The Elizabeth Thoman Media Literacy Archives include archival materials from the Center for Media Literacy in Los Angeles for which Thoman was the Founder. The archives consist of approximately 70 linear feet of Elizabeth Thoman's library and her correspondence as editor of
Media & Values. Personal notes and program materials are available from every major conference since UNESCO's first call for universal media literacy education at Grunwald, Germany in 1984. This collection culminates in the founding of the Partnership for Media Education in 1997 which, in turn, birthed NAMLE.
 
Acquisitions and development of the media literacy collection at Temple University is being overseen by Margery N. Sly, Director of Special Collections Research Center.
 
NAMLE organizational partners have also been invited to archive their materials at Temple University Libraries. If you are interested in discussing the possibility, please contact Margery directly at [email protected].
 
Additional archives are being developed through the National Telemedia Council and the North American chapter of the Global Alliance for Partnerships in Media and Information Literacy.

We are excited to see the media literacy archive grow and to provide a home for the historical materials documenting NAMLE's important work. 

If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected].

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