Re: [ARSCLIST] National Recording Preservation Board (NRPB) Study

[steven c <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Tom Fine" <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Once again, you can't ever automate or replace a knowledgable and
> skilled human being, and a true archivist with all those skills I
mentioned
> above is a very rare bird.
>
You posted this back in May! Anyway...it seems to me that the folks
who create archival catalogs (or want to?) are actually slightly
deranged by any normal standards! There are a very few people (Brian
Rust, apparently Steve Abrams of the C8T project, and myself if I had
the requisite time and money, usw.) who are actually DATA collectors
along with/as opposed to record (or other forms of preserved sound)
collectors! Worse yet, any project needing this task accomplished
really requires one of these slightly-crazed individuals...we've seen
the results when we use uninterested personnel for that task or set
thereof...

Steven C. Barr