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The Archives Project was launched in 1998. The first phase, funded entirely by CBC, concluded in March 2002. As a result of this work, hundreds of thousands of hours of radio and television history - at both the CBC and Radio-Canada - have been restored, preserved and catalogued for safe-keeping and future generations' use. Still more material was brought up to speed in a couple of related CBC radio and TV preservation projects started a few years earlier. Together, they've helped the operation complete its transformation from shadowy, overlooked dumping ground into an active, valuable and trusted resource both inside and outside the corporation. The Archives Project stemmed from a 1995
CBC task force on the Preservation and Enhanced Use of Canada's
Audio-Visual Heritage. That task force recognized that despite the
efforts of some CBC archivists and librarians, age and neglect were
having a devastating effect on national broadcasting heritage. Specifically,
it warned the CBC Board of Directors that "Canada's audio-visual
legacy is fading away - taking essential traces of our culture and
society with it."
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the Archives Project was created with three main objectives:
