Re: arsclist LP, CD, cassette packaging

["Richard L. Hess" <ArcLists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jane,

Are you looking for information on preserving the packaging of sound 
recordings independently from the sound recording itself?

If so, I believe there are products to protect album jackets, etc. 
available from the usual suspects like Gaylord (and Brodart?) I haven't 
looked in a while.

In addition, there are specialty houses -- I don't have one I deal with, 
but I'm sure a quick google search will turn them up -- that sell to record 
collectors. Sleeves and such both for the LP and for the jacket.

Some of the LPs I buy from used dealers are in PVC? sleeves.

Now the ultimate question is: when you've decided to preserve all this in a 
digital archive, how do you go about scanning the print so that it is added 
to the sound record as metadata. I think this is an important function for 
access and preservation (with the copyright owners' permissions, or some 
blanket "fair use" exclusion).

Does this help at all?

Cheers,

Richard

At 10:56 PM 10/29/2001 -0600, you wrote:
> Hi all, I'm hoping you can help me out.
> I'm a Masters student in Library and Information Science at the University
> of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  I'm taking a preservation course and will
> be presenting to my class next week on the topic of preserving sound
> recordings.  I'd like to specifically focus on the packaging- LP sleeves,
> covers, CD cases and liner notes, etc.  I've not found much information on
> this either online or in the library science literature, even though my
> professors gave me a great, long bibliography!  If any of you know
> anything about this, could you please send me links to sites, citations
> for articles, your own personal experience, anything!
>
> Thanks
> Jane Cronkhite
> cronkhit@xxxxxxxx
>
>
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