[ARSCLIST] Audio Preservation Symposium - Austin, Texas

[Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa <e.cunnk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Audio Preservation Symposium - Austin, Texas

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Sound Savings: Preserving Audio Collections

Austin, Texas

July 24-26, 2003

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 Preservation Directorate, 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-Austin 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, please visit http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~soundsavings. To register for the symposium, please use the online registration form.

We look forward to seeing you in July!

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Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa
Assistant Director, Preservation and Conservation Studies
The Center for the Cultural Record
The University of Texas at Austin
School of Information
1 University Station D7000
Austin TX 78712-0390
Phone: 512.471.8287
FAX: 512.471.8285
E-mail: e.cunnk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx