The American Folklife Center and the National Digital Library Program announce the release of their latest online presentation:

Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, a multi-format ethnographic field collection from the American Folklife Center's Archive of Folk Culture, has just been made available through the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html). This collection documents the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941. This collection consists of audio recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, publications, and ephemera generated during two separate documentation trips undertaken by Todd and Sonkin.

The following materials on our website may also be of interest:

"California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the '30s", another ethnographic field collection from the American Folklife Center's Archive of Folk Culture, continues to be available online (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afccchtml/cowhome.html).  This elaborate online collection includes sound recordings, still photographs, drawings, and manuscripts documenting the musical traditions of a variety of European ethnic and English- and Spanish-speaking communities in California. It comprises 35 hours of folk music recorded in twelve languages representing 185 musicians.

"Folklife Sourcebook: A Directory of Folklife Resources in the United States" has been revised and expanded for 1997. Chapters include directories for graduate programs, public sector folklore organizations, archives, serial publications, and more. This edition will be available as an online resource only. Please send updates on information in the directory to Peter Bartis, peba@loc.gov. The URL for this publication is: http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/sourcebk.html

The Folklife Center's web pages include many popular publications, guides to collections, information about projects to publish recordings from the collections on CD, and the Folkline information service. The URL for the Center's home page is:  http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/