[PADG:486] Re: ALA Audio Preservation and Digitization Program

["Doris Hamburg" <Doris.Hamburg@xxxxxxxx>]

I am away and will be returning to the National Archives on Monday, June 13.

Please direct immediate questions to Clarence Simmons who will be Acting Director, Preservation Programs, clarence.simmons@xxxxxxxx in my absence.  301-837-2982

If there is a records emergency, please contact NARA security at 301-837-2900.  They will contact the Records Emergency (Beeper) Response Team.


Doris A. Hamburg
Director, Preservation Programs
National Archives and Records Administration



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Saving Sound:

Identifying Endangered Recordings

And Planning for Preservation of Audio Collections

 

ALA Annual Conference/Chicago

Sunday, June 26, 2005

4:00 - 5:30 p.m.

McCormick Place Room N231

 

Join us for the first in a series of programs on preserving and
digitizing audio materials.  This session will help you identify the
types of audio collections held by libraries and their patterns of
deterioration.  Funding sources for audio preservation will also be
explored.  Join Grammy Award Nominee George Blood, President of Safe
Sound Archives, and Charles Kolb, Senior Program Officer, Division of
Preservation and Access, National Endowment for the Humanities, for an
overview of issues in this new area of preservation focus.  Extensive
handout materials and a CD with resource information will be provided.
For more information, please e-mail Tom_Clareson@xxxxxxxx or call
800/848-5878, ext. 6071.