[PADG:1393] Recording Media Discussion Group Report -- Midwinter 2007

["Stephanie A. Lamson" <salamson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Recording Media Discussion Group Report -- Midwinter 2007

Mona Jimenez, Associate Professor and Associate Director of Moving Image
Archiving & Preservation at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University,
presented the results of a random sample survey she conducted at New York
University’s Avery Fisher Center for Music and Media.  The group then
discussed the purpose and benefits of a random sample survey as well as some of
the challenges of evaluating condition and determining the availability of
replacement copies.

Janet Gertz, Director of Preservation at Columbia University Libraries, gave an
update on their work developing a survey tool that inventories and assesses the
physical condition and intellectual control of both audio and moving image
materials, based on visual inspection.  Lastly, the Sound Directions project is
expecting to release FACET (Field Audio Collection Evaluation Tool), a survey
tool for audio formats produced by folklorists and ethnomusicologists, on their
website on March 1, 2007.  In addition, a publication detailing the entire Sound
Directions project is scheduled to be available on their website in May 2007.

For more information or for suggestions of discussion group topics for Annual 2007, please contact co-chairs Stephanie Lamson and Katie McCormick.

Thank you,
Stephanie and Katie

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Stephanie Lamson
Preservation
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA  98195-2900
206.543.4890   salamson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Katie McCormick
Special Collections
J. Murrey Atkins Library
UNC Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd
Charlotte, NC 28223-0001
704-687-6288     kmccormi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx