After three organizational meetings in 1965 and 1966, and the election of its first president, Philip L. Miller, Chief of the Music Division, New York Public Library, ARSC's first annual conference was held at Indiana University in March 1967. Its first publication was the "Preliminary Directory of Sound Recording Collections in the United States and Canada" (1967), listing 1,500 public and private collections. This was followed by the launch of the "ARSC Journal" (1968), the "ARSC Newsletter" (1977), and other publications. Other important projects have included The Rigler-Deutsch Index, a union catalog of the 615,000 78 rpm holdings of five major public archives. Data from this massive project is now part of the WorldCat online library catalog.