[Dixielandjazz] Sound Savings: Preserving Audio Collections Symposium

[Dan Augustine]

Folks--
     I just happened to see a link to this on UT's home page 
(http://www.utexas.edu) yesterday, too late to find out any more 
about it, but it seems closely connected with what a lot of us do and 
think about: collect and try to preserve our own audio-collections. 
I didn't see anything related specifically to jazz in the 
descriptions, but i thought i'd pass this info along in case any of 
you are interested or would like to follow up on it.  I'm glad there 
are groups trying to preserve audio collections, as (at least to me) 
an old original recording of early jazz is at least as deserving to 
be kept as an early copy of a book or article from the same period.

     Dan
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Sound Savings: Preserving Audio Collections
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http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~soundsavings/

"A symposium co-sponsored by:
    * Preservation and Conservation Studies at the School of Information,
      The University of Texas at Austin
    * Library of Congress
    * National Recording Preservation Board
    * Association of Research Libraries

Realizing the growing need for a forum on audio preservation, the 
Preservation and Conservation Studies program of the School of 
Information at the University of Texas at Austin, the Library of 
Congress, the National Recording Preservation Board, and the 
Association of Research Libraries are co-sponsoring Sound Savings: 
Preserving Audio Collections.

The symposium will be held in Austin, Texas, July 24-26, 2003, in the 
newly renovated Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center on the UT 
campus. Sound Savings will feature talks by experts in the field of 
audio preservation on topics ranging from assessing the preservation 
needs of audio collections to creating, preserving, and making 
publicly available digitally reformatted audio recordings. For more 
information, see the schedule portion of this website. To register 
for the symposium, please use the online registration form. 
REGISTRATION CLOSED.

Preservation and Conservation Studies
The Center for the Cultural Record
School of Information
The University of Texas at Austin

1 University Station, D7000
Austin, TX 78712-0390
phone: 512.471.8287
fax:: 512.471.8285

For more information contact:
Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa, e.cunnk at mail.utexas.edu, or
Ann Seago, aseago at mail.utexas.edu

Scheduled Presentations

Sound Savings will take place the fourth weekend of July. Short 
descriptions of scheduled presentations and the speakers are 
available through the following links. The topics covered include 
assessing preservation needs, setting priorities, reformatting 
technologies, archiving, intellectual property issues and planning 
for the future. In addition to speakers the symposium will also 
include "Breakout" session in which conference attendees can discuss 
topics covered.

Thursday, July 24
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10:15 - 11:00 - Where are We Today? What are the Key Issues?
               - Sam Brylawski (Library of Congress)
11:00 - 11:30 - Coffee break and opening of display of sound carriers
                 and associated machines
11:30 - 12:15 - Media Types and Problems - Sarah Stauderman 
(Smithsonian Archives)
  1:45 -  2:30 - Surveying Audio Collections - Hannah Frost (Stanford 
University)
  2:30 -  3:15 - Risk Reduction Through Preventive Care, Handling and Storage
               - Alan Lewis (National Archives and Records Administration)
  3:45 -  4:15 - Reporting Session: Save Our Sounds Project
               - Dr. Michael Taft (Library of Congress)

Friday, July 25
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  9:30 - 10:15 - The Current Market and Options for Rescuing 
Endangered Sound Recordings
               - Dr. Karl Miller (UT Austin)
10:15 - 11:00 - Contracting for Services - Alan Lewis (NARA) and
                 Anji Cornette (Cutting Corporation Inc.)
11:30 - 12:15 - What You Need to Know to Set Up a Reformatting Lab
               - Dr. Karl Miller (UT Austin)
  1:45 -  2:30 - The LC/Culpeper Digital Audio Preservation Prototyping Project
               - Carl Fleischauer (Library of Congress)
  2:30 -  4:45 - Digital Sound Projects
                 * Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Audio 
Reformatting Project
                   - Jill Hawkins (LBJ Library)
                 * Digitizing of the The Arhoolie Foundation's 
Strachwitz Frontera
                   Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings
                   - Tom Diamant (Arhoolie Foundation)
                 * Preserving and Accessing the Concert Recordings of 
the Indiana
                   University School of Music
                   - Konrad Strauss (Indiana University School of Music)

Saturday, July 26
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  9:30 - 10:15 - Understanding and Managing Rights Issues For Sound Recordings
               - Georgia Harper (UT System)
10:15 - 11:45 - Shaping an Education and Research Agenda (Panel Session)
                 Moderator: Mark Roosa
                 Panelists: Sam Brylawski, Tom Clareson, Ellen 
Cunningham-Kruppa,
                            Carl Fleischauer, Alan Lewis, Sarah Stauderman

Speakers
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Tom Clareson		- OCLC Online Computer Library Center (bio)
Dr. James Lastra	- University of Chicago (bio)
Sam Brylawski		- Library of Congress (bio)
Sarah Stauderman	- Smithsonian Archives (bio)
Hannah Frost		- Stanford University (bio)
Alan Lewis		- National Archives and Records Administration (bio)
Dr. Michael Taft	- Library of Congress (bio)
Dr. Karl Miller		- The University of Texas at Austin (bio)
Anji Cornette		- Cutting Corporation (bio)
Carl Fleischauer	- Library of Congress (bio)
Jill Hawkins		- Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library 
and Museum (bio)
Tom Diamant		- Arhoolie Foundation (bio)
Konrad Strauss		- Indiana University School of Music (bio)
Georgia Harper		- The University of Texas System (bio)
Ellen Cunningham	- Kruppa-The University of Texas at Austin (bio)"
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