Symposium on audio preservation

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
<URL:http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~soundsavings>. To register for
the symposium, please use the online registration form.

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
512.471.8287
Fax: 512.471.8285


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