Workshop on audio preservation

This is an announcement for a pre-conference workshop that will be
held on March 30, 2005 the day before the Association for Recorded
Sound Collections (ARSC) annual conference in Austin, Texas, March
31-April 2, 2005.

The Association for Recorded Sound Collections, Education and
Training Committee and the Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the
Cultural Record, School of Information, University of Texas at
Austin present:

    A Pre-conference workshop on
    The Assessment, Preservation, and Access of Audio Collections in
    the Digital Age: an Archival Case Study
    Travis 3 meeting room, Radisson Hotel and Suites
    111 E. Cesar Chavez St., Austin, Texas
    Wednesday, March 30, 2005, 9:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.

Presenters and their topics:

    Mike Casey
    Coordinator of Recording Services, Archives of Traditional
    Music, Indiana University
        Risk assessment for audio collections **Ranking tool to
        develop priorities for preservation

    The following speakers from the University of Missouri-Kansas
    City on the digital audio project "Voices of World War II:
    Experiences from the Front and at Home - KMBC Radio"
        Rob Ray
        Special Collections Librarian, Miller Nichols Library, Dept.
        of Special Collections
            Creation of digital library projects

        Wendy Sistrunk
        Music Catalog Librarian, Miller Nichols Library
            Metadata for digital audio preservation
            Relationship to the OPAC

        Chuck Haddix
        Director, Marr Sound Archives, Miller Nichols Library
            Transfer of original analog audio to digital files
            Public access

Workshop registration fees:  ARSC members: $70 (before March 4); $80
(after March 4); Non-ARSC members: $85 (before March 4); $95 (after
March 4); Students: $30

Registration Form: ARSC Pre-Conference Workshop

    Registration Form: ARSC Pre-Conference Workshop
    Name:
    Street Address:
    City:
    State:
    Zip:
    Institution:
    Phone:
    Fax:     E-mail:

    Payment enclosed:
        ARSC Member: $70 ($80)
        Non-member: $85 ($95)
        Student: $30

Attendees will be receiving confirmation notices. Mail completed
registration form and payment to:

    Nancy Seeger
    1433 East Capitol St. SE
    Washington DC 20003-1535

Please make checks payable to ARSC, indicating in the memo portion
that payment is for the Workshop. For additional information, please
contact Nancy Seeger <nsee [at] loc__gov> 202-707-5494 or Sara Velez
<svelez [at] nypl__org> 212-870-1662

For more information on the ARSC conference see
<URL:http://www.arsc-audio.org/conference2005.html>

(The ARSC conference page is in the process of being updated)

Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa
Director
The Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the Cultural Record
School of Information
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station D7000
Austin TX 78712-0390
512-471-8287
Fax: 512-471-8285


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