In 2009, Indiana University Bloomington published a report documenting the findings of a campus-wide census of audio, video, and film holdings which identified more than 560,000 media objects, most of them on degrading, obsolete analogue carriers. In 2010, Indiana University began a preservation planning process for time-based media holdings, engaging key campus stakeholders. The results of the first year of this planning project are published in 2011 in the report “Meeting the Challenge of Media Preservation: Strategies and Solutions”. This paper explores the central components of these publications including key recommendations of the Indiana University Media Preservation Initiative to create a centralised digitisation facility and a campus-wide media preservation plan.
