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Re: [ARSCLIST] audio help
Yes, I agree that many archivists are ignorant of audio, so that is why we
need trained engineers to work with them. There is usually some audio-heads
available on any campus that would be happy to help out part-time on
archival projects, some even willing to volunteer if the subject interest is
there. We have to be careful to not make the same mistakes as in some other
fields, such as land mapping where it is assumed software can replace
trained cartographers, and the output is a hard to read map without a proper
key or scale or low resolution data is mistakenly used for high resolution
work. By bringing more engineers into archival work is a very good thing for
both professions.
Robert Wasserman
WI Historical Society Sound Achives
rawasserman@xxxxxxxxxxxx
And for Alyssa's comments about sound engineers. I'd like to hire one, but
I think that for many institutions it is a stretch just to hire somebody at
the curatorial level with expertise in audio media let alone an audio
engineer. We do have an audio engineer in the library that I consult with
regularly, but she works for another branch. In my experience, training as
a sound engineer does not qualify one to do archival work, though audio
people are not nearly as ignorant of archival issues as the video people
are. (Why aren't you burning everything to DVD? I get that at least once a
month.) The audio training is great for pulling cable and getting rid of
ground loops all sorts of other important things that many archivists are
terrible at, but an archival sound technician/engineer needs two kinds of
training to do their job right.
David
David Seubert, Curator
Performing Arts Collection
Davidson Library Special Collections
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
(805) 893-5444 Fax (805) 893-5749
mailto:seubert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/pa/
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