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THE MAIN PURPOSES OF THE BHAKTIVEDANTA ARCHIVES ARE THE PRESERVATION AND DISSEMINATION OF THE TEACHINGS OF THE KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS RELIGION AS ESPOUSED BY ITS FOUNDER AND PRECEPTOR,

AUDIO/VEDABASE DEPARTMENT WITH THE FINAL TRANSFER OF AUDIO ANALOG TO DIGITAL FROM 1966- 1977 COMPLETE. THERE HAVE BEEN A FEW NEW RECORDINGS COME TO LIGHT THAT HAVE BEEN ADDED. ALSO, THE CONTINUATION OF FIDELITY CHECKING OF THE PHILOSOPHY RECORDING IS ONGOING FOR PLACING IN THE VEDABASE CURRENTLY 9544 ADDITIONAL NEWLY TRANSLATED RECORDS OF BENGALI & HINDI HAVE BEEN ADDED. WORK IS ONGOING WITH THE ADDITION OF PRE-'78 BOOKS. NUMEROUS CORRECTIONS AND SPELLING ERRORS HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTED. WE EXPECT TO RELEASE AN UPDATE OF VEDABASE IN 2022. DOCUMENTS THE PAST YEAR HAS SEEN THE CORRELATION OF CORRESPONDENCE FROM A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI FOR YEARS 1973-1974. THE DIGITAL SCANNING OF THESE YEARS HAS ALSO TAKEN PLACE. THIS SCANNING WAS DONE AT HI RESOLUTION IN THE ARCHIVAL FILE TYPE TIFF. A SPREADSHEET HAS ALSO BEEN CREATED OF META DATA FOR EACH DOCUMENT. SEVENTY-FOUR TYPED DIGITAL COPIES OF CORRESPONDENCE NOT CURRENTLY FOUND IN THE VEDABASE HAVE ALSO BEEN COMPLETED FOR THE YEARS 1967-1977. PHOTOS THIS YEAR THE RE-SCANNING OF THE SRILA PRABHUPADA BLACK & WHITE NEGATIVE COLLECTION WAS COMPLETED. THE COMPLETE COLLECTIONS PROOF SHEETS ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE. NOW THE SRILA PRABHUPADA COLOR NEGATIVE COLLECTION IS BEING SCANNED AND WILL BE COMPLETED THIS YEAR. THE PROOF SHEETS WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE ONLINE. WE ARE STARTING TO GO THRU THE OLD AND EARLIEST ISKCON BLACK & WHITE NEGATIVE COLLECTION, 1000 PAGES. PROOF SCANNING THE NEGATIVE PAGES AND WILL BE AVAILABLE AS THEY BECOME AVAILABLE. ALSO, DURING THE IS PROCESS WE ARE RE-PAGING AND REHOUSING THE COLLECTION -PICS-. THE IS PREPARING THE COLLECTION FOR THE PHOTO VAULT. THERE IS ALSO A LOT OF BLACK & WHITE NEGATIVES THAT ARE NOT PROPERLY SLEEVED AND NEED PROOF SCANNING AS WELL. WE CREATED APPROPRIATE STORAGE AND NUMBER LABELING OF DONATED MATERIALS - NAMES THUS FAR PROCESSED. DULAL CHANDRA 2015-05-22 KURMA'S SLIDES 2015-07-10 DENVER PRANABALLABHA 2018 NOTEBOOK FROM DAIVISAKTI VRINDAVANA 2018-06 PETER JULIAN LANE-1974 MELBOURN RATHA YATRA 2020 GOVINDA DASI DONATION DAMAGHOSA VISAKHA PREVIOUSLY DONATED OR LENT MATERIAL WAS COPIED IN 4X5 FILM FORMAT, AND A FILING SYSTEM DEVELOPED AROUND THEM. OVER THE YEARS MORE MATERIAL HAS BEEN DONATED/LENT AND COPIED DIGITALLY OR KEPT (USUALLY UNLABELED) BUT NOT KEPT IN ANY PARTICULAR ORDER OR CATEGORY OR LOGGED INTO ANY FILE. SO, THIS IS A START TO FILL IN THE GAPS BY DOING SOMETHING WITH THE DONATED/LENT IMAGES THAT HAVE COME TO THE BA AFTER 2008 OVER 200 HOURS WERE SPENT ON 61 VARIOUS REQUESTS.