On May 11, I’ll be co-leading “Audio Archives 101: Identification, Organization, and Preservation,” the pre-conference workshop for ARSC 2011. The conference is in Los Angeles, downtown at the Westin Bonaventure. Audio archives are a fascinating part of the library, archive, and museum sector. As a preservation librarian, the media in these collections pose a lot of challenging problems.
Aaron Bittel (UCLA) and Karen Fishman (Library of Congress) deserve the lion’s share of credit for putting this workshop together. I’ll primarily be talking about assessment, but audio archives require a diverse set of expertise, and Aaron and Karen bring that in spades. I expect to learn just as much as I teach. There will be some lecture, plenty of time for discussion, but most importantly, a significant amount of hands-on examination of materials.