In May 2018, I took over as manager of the J-R Library & Archives (JRLA). It was a dream come true for me. Though I have been on MSIA staff for a handful of years working with Products, I had spent many years working as a volunteer for the JRLA. Naturally, it is my greatest pleasure to work here now, immersed in J-R’s teachings.<\/p>\n
The Library was primarily focused on transcribing and organizing decades worth of John-Roger’s recordings and documents. As I became involved in my current post, I took a step back and along with the Presidency, looked at the vast MSIA archival picture. When we examined the archival process of the transcripts, original recordings, and digital files we quickly realized that while NOW Productions and the JRLA were both archiving J-R’s content, we needed to unify all of our systems to ensure that nothing was missed; to create the most comprehensive archive possible for posterity. At the most granular level, this means reviewing and analyzing the extensive NOW database to identify which older generations of media stored at the vault have not been digitized. Due to the vast volume of works, part of the digitizing is being outsourced and some of the more vulnerable pieces are being lovingly digitized in-house.<\/p>\n
Through this process, my role has shifted and my title has become NOW Productions Archive Manager. My most important mandate from the Presidency right now is to coordinate getting every J-R recording digitized and catalogued, with a transcript to match, into a singular searchable system. Of course, the preservation and digitization of J-R’s books, Discourses, articles, continues as well.<\/p>\n
We are building a digital library of audio, video and transcripts, which will ultimately converge in a Digital Asset Management system so we can make the teachings more readily available for you.<\/p>\n
Why am I sharing all of this and what is the John-Roger Archive Portal?<\/p>\n
It has been a dream and goal of ours for quite some time to offer a way to share John-Roger’s teachings — where users can explore content brought together all in one place. Some of this content, dating to back to the late 60\u2019s, hasn’t been published since it originally came out. Additionally, we have wanted to do a much better job of keeping our MSIA community informed on all the inner-workings going on “behind the scenes” to preserve J-R’s teachings.<\/p>\n
The home page of J-R Archive Portal features the searchable archive content of over 2,500 Loving Each Day quotes by category, date, or free-form word search. This is just to get us started! Next, we will have an MSIA chronology and history, that we are planning to expand (any volunteers?).<\/p>\n
This Blog page is where you can read about newly added content, you’ll also find a section on How-to-Volunteer (because we always need your help!) and a section where you can read about how your donations can support the John-Roger Legacy Fund, which MSIA set up for the purpose of preserving and publishing of J-R’s teachings well into the future.<\/p>\n
If you are new to MSIA and not so familiar with John-Roger, browse around. We invite you to take a look at J-R’s bio page. You can also learn about MSIA’s current Spiritual Director, John Morton, here<\/a> and watch his videos here<\/a> .<\/p>\n We couldn’t be more excited to finally have it up and running.<\/p>\n This archive will continue to expand with even more content, coming soon! We are building a text search feature for J-R’s books, along with deeper archival content in the works.<\/p>\n Please take a moment to subscribe to our email newsletter to tune into all the future developments and get alerts when there\u2019s a new blog post (see subscription option below).<\/p>\n Last but certainly not least, we are building an awesome team. John Pavilonis has joined the archive staff and we are looking to fill at least two more positions.<\/p>\n In love and Light,<\/p>\n Marina Van Wormer, the NOW Productions Archive Manager<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In May 2018, I took over as manager of the J-R Library & Archives (JRLA). It was a dream come true for me. Though I have been on MSIA staff for a handful of years working with Products, I had spent many years working as a volunteer for the JRLA. 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