Comments on: Reference Question of the Week – 5/18/08 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2008/05/24/reference-question-of-the-week-51808/ or, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Fear and Loathing at a Public Library Reference Desk Mon, 20 May 2013 23:17:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Rob McCausland http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2008/05/24/reference-question-of-the-week-51808/#comment-522 Rob McCausland Sat, 24 May 2008 15:42:29 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2008/05/24/reference-question-of-the-week-51808#comment-522 The Alliance for Community Media is a 32-year old nonprofit organization that supports and advocates for public, educational, and government (PEG) access television. We published the “2004 Community Media Resource Directory” which lists over 600 US PEG access providers. This is available for purchase, in book and on CD, from our website. We are currently collecting information for a new edition, since much of the data has changed, and since now there are many more PEG access channels.

The Mapping Access site you found was created by Ben Sheldon, now at CTC VISTA, based at UMASS-Boston. Access centers list themselves there – currently it includes about 200 stations.

The most current comprehensive directory of US PEG access channels – over 700 – is probably the linking table I created and maintain, “Websites of US PEG Access Channels”- http://www.ourchannels.org/alpha.htm .

Most public access centers have rules that determine how the residents they serve can use their equipment to make programs and put those programs on their channels. If those rules are on their websites, this table allows a direct click through to them.

Finally, the ACM is a grassroots membership organization, with regional and state chapters. Most of those chapters hold annual conferences and video contests — some also host periodic day-long workshops. The very active Massachusetts chapter is “MsssAccess” – http://massaccess.org .

The ACM is pleased to answer questions from the public, and to help them learn how they can become involved in community television. We also are eager to help community media advocates learn how to protect against the loss of these channels from various legislative and regulatory assaults. Please feel free to contact us for any further information.

Rob McCausland
Director of Information & Organizing Services
Alliance for Community Media
202-393-2650
http://alliancecm.org
http://rghm.wordpress.com

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