Workshop
Tuesday, September 10th from 11:00am to 1:00pm
What is the difference between disc and DAT? How can I give my patrons access to audio recordings? Why on earth would you bake a tape? This hands-on workshop will examine the current state of audio preservation for libraries and archives—both as physical formats and digital files.
By the end of the workshop, you should be able to:
- Identify most audio formats found in a library or archive, and understand their operating principles
- Determine the best environment for long-term care of your physical media
- Prioritize your audio materials for reformatting according to their fragility, obsolescence, value, and property-rights issues
- Know current best practices and standards in reformatting of physical audio formats
- Be knowledgeable about long-term preservation issues of digital audio objects
Bring a curious mind, alert ears and—if you wish—an audio item you want to identify!
Recommended reading: Guidelines on the production and preservation of digital audio objects. (Aarhus, Denmark): International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA), 2004. Available from https://www.iasa-web.org/tc04/audio-preservation
About our presenter:
Marcos Sueiro Bal is the Archives Manager at New York Public Radio. He is a member of the technical committees of the Association of Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) and the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA), and was part of the Collection Management Task Force that drafted the Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Plan in 2012. In 2011 he co-translated the definitive text on audio preservation, IASA's Guidelines for the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects. He is a member of the Standards Committee of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), and has taught Audio Preservation at Long Island University's Palmer School of Library Science. In 2011 he mastered and restored Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy (Hyperion), and in 2008 was nominated for a Grammy for his restoration work on Polk Miller and His Old South Quartette (Tompkins Square). Marcos has worked at the Alan Lomax Archives, Columbia University Libraries (where he developed AVDb, a preservation prioritization tool), the Center for Black Music Research, Masterdisk mastering studios, and Emory University.
Where ?
Brooklyn Public Library, 10, Grand Army Plaza, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, 11238, United States