Michael O’Driscoll and his partner and Department of English and Film Studies colleague, Cecily Devereux, worked with other colleagues to inventory and preserve hundreds of reel-to-reel audio tapes once slated for disposal.
Some gems include readings and interviews with the likes of Rudy Wiebe, Sheila Watson, W.O. Mitchell, Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje.
Through a seven-year, SSHRC-funded partnership called SpokenWeb, O’Driscoll and others are helping to make recorded lectures, interviews, performances, oral histories and other creative artifacts across the country more readable and accessible online.
Read more about their work to preserve this vital archive of Canadian culture.