Proceedings from the Symposium

July 24-26, 2003

Co-sponsored by:

• Preservation and Conservation Studies, University of Texas at Austin, School of Information
• Library of Congress
• National Recording Preservation Board
• Association of Research Libraries

Table of Contents, Preface, and Introduction from the printed publication (PDF)

Introduction to the Papers

Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa, Mark Roosa

Welcome

Dean Andrew Dillon (School of Information, UT Austin)

• A Sound Education: Audio and the Next Great Leap in Information Studies

Session I: Environmental Overview

• Review of Audio Collection Preservation Trends and Challenges
  Sam Brylawski (Library of Congress)

Session II: Assessing Preservation Needs

• Pictorial Guide to Sound Recording Media
  Sarah Stauderman (Smithsonian Archives)

• Surveying Sound Recording Collections
  Hannah Frost (Stanford University)

• Relevamiento de colecciones de grabaciones de sonido por Hannah Frost
  Traducción al castellano: María Antonieta Sacchi de Ceriotto and Maria Esteva

Session III: Setting Priorities and Taking Action

• Risk Reduction Through Preventive Care, Handling, and Storage
  Alan Lewis (National Archives and Records Administration)]

• The Save Our Sounds Project
  Dr. Michael Taft (Library of Congress)

Session IV: Reformatting Issues

• The Case for Audio Preservation
  Dr. Karl Miller (UT Austin)

• Contracting for Services
  Alan Lewis (NARA) and Anji Cornette (Cutting Corporation Inc.)

Session V: Creating, Preserving and Making Available Digital Sound

• The Library of Congress Digital Audio Preservation Prototyping Project
  Carl Fleischhauer (Library of Congress)

Digital Sound Projects

• Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum Audio Reformatting Project
  Jill Hawkins

• Archiving 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)

Session VI: Intellectual Property Issues and Sound Recordings

• Copyright Law and Audio Preservation
  Georgia Harper (UT System)

Session VII: Building for the Future

• Shaping an Education and Research Agenda (Panel Session)
  Moderator: Mark Roosa
  Panelists: Sam Brylawski, Tom Clareson, Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa, Carl Fleischhauer, Alan Lewis, Sarah Stauderman

Sound Savings: Bibliography and Resources

Sarah Cunningham