Association of Professional Recording Services, earlier the Association of Professional Recording Studios (APRS)

This collection includes: minutes and papers of executive/board and various committees, 1975-1996; papers concerning APRS exhibitions, 1980-1997, Audio Engineering Society exhibitions/conventions, 198-1997; APRS and other courses and seminars, 1983-1996; out-letters and circulars, 1992-1996; records concerning members and membership, 1947-1999; records of the British Record Producers Guild, later Re-Pro (Guild of Recording Producers, Directors and Engineers), 1978-1998.

Initially known as the Association of Professional Recording Studios, the APRS became a limited company in 1951 and changed its name to the Association of Professional Recording Services in the early 1980s. In 1986 it created a separate membership group for record producers, the British Record Producers Guild (BRPG) (re-named Re-Pro in 1993), followed in 1990 by a group for recording pressers and duplicators (PAD), a section for manufacturers, distributors, hire companies and consultants (the Suppliers Group) and, in 1997, the Audio Post-Production Studios Group (APPS). It also established an education and training section.

Reference: Association of Professional Recording Services website (http://www2.aprs.co.uk/) accessed 7 March 2002 and 27 July 2015; information in deposit file.

This collection is available to researchers by appointment at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. See http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/using/

This collection was deposited in the Centre by the Association of Professional Recording Services in 1999.

Link to full catalogue: http://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/APR

Further deposits are not expected.