Preservation of reel-to-reel, etc.

[Lisa Coats <lcoats@xxxxxxx>]

> I am the Archive Assistant at the Institute for Advanced Study in
> Princeton, NJ.  We are in need of some help here.  We have several
> reel-to-reel audio tapes of lectures that have occurred here (these are
> from the 1960s, primarily) that we need preservation copies made of, but
> we don't even have the equipment to listen to them.  We also have quite a
> few regular cassette tapes of an oral history project from the 1980s (that
> is currently on hold) that we aren't sure how to preserve.  I have read
> that cassettes are not the best preservation medium and they should be
> converted to reel-to-reel as "masters," but obviously having the cassettes
> makes them easier to listen to for research purposes.
> 
> Does anyone know of a place, preferably in the Princeton area, that does
> this sort of work?
> 
> Thank you for your help.
> Lisa Coats
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