Jane Pipik appointed Manager of Audio Preservation Services at NEDCC

With the assistance of AVPreserve, NEDCC has completed a year-long
business planning study to expand its digital audio preservation
service for libraries, archives, and museums to include traditional
methods for digitally reformatting legacy audio carriers, such as
magnetic and digital audio tape.

The new Audio Preservation Service is expected to launch in spring
2016, and builds upon NEDCC's successful implementation of "IRENE,"
the IMLS-funded optical scanning technology, developed by Berkeley
Labs and the Library of Congress, for digitizing grooved media such
as discs and wax cylinders.

NEDCC acknowledges the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation for underwriting both the audio business planning study
and the implementation of its full audio preservation service.

NEDCC is also very pleased to announce the appointment of Jane Pipik
as its Manager of Audio Preservation Services.  Jane brings
extensive audio engineering experience to her role at NEDCC,
including work as Recording and Production Engineer in public radio,
first at WNYC New York (1984-1989) and then WGBH Boston (1989-2014).
Her work has involved all aspects of recording and preservation;
including studio and remote live recording, post-production,
mastering, and digital reformatting.  Jane has had the pleasure of
recording a wide range of individual artists and performing groups:
from Joan Baez to Yo Yo Ma, from Anthrax to the Boston Symphony
Orchestra.  She holds a BA, summa cum laude, in Communications and
Culture from the City University of New York, and will earn her
Library and Information Science degree with an Archives
Concentration at Simmons College in December of 2015.

Learn more at

    <URL:https://www.nedcc.org/newsletters/audio-announcement>

Questions? Contact

    Jane Pipik
    Manager of Audio Preservation Services
    jpipik<-at->nedcc<.>org

Join the NEDCC E-News List for updates on the project and other
preservation news:

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