For over 25 years WGBH Media Library and Archives (MLA) has preserved, catalogued, and provided access to materials produced by WGBH. It currently houses more than 10,000 boxes of material, more than 500,000 items, and more than 50,000 audio, video, and film masters.

MLA establishes policies and procedures for the access, acquisition, intellectual control, and preservation of WGBH's physical media, digital production, and administrative assets. Please see our access policies for further information. The MLA's Media Production Organizational Tools are freely available to the production community. The tools, created by the WGBH MLA, consist of a handbook and four Filemaker databases. Use them as you move through the different phases of production to help you in organizing tapes and photos, compiling cue sheets, tracking licenses with third party sources, and in creating a final program log.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently funded a report on the assessment of the WGBH Media Library and Archives for scholarly use. Please see The WGBH Media Library and Archives Assessment for Scholarly Use for further information.

We welcome your comments on this research. Please share your thoughts on our assessment here.