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The following message has been posted by the ARSC Outreach Committee. If you
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--- ARSC PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP 2008 ---

The Education and Training Committee of the Association for Recorded Sound
Collections presents "A Workshop on Funding, Partnerships, and Dissemination
for Audio Preservation." The workshop will be held Wednesday, March 26, 9:00
a.m. - 5:00 p.m., in the Campbell Recital Hall, at Stanford University, Palo
Alto, California.

Many archives, libraries, and other repositories have acquired a basic
knowledge of preserving their audio holdings. They understand and have
addressed equipment, metadata, workflow, and storage issues. Funding for
preservation activities is the next step, but what resources are available
and what requirements must be met?

Archivists, librarians, and collection managers -- anyone who works with or
manages archival sound recordings -- will gain information about identifying
grant-making institutions, meeting intake requirements, and exploring
possible partnerships with other institutions.

The workshop features the following sessions:

PLANNING, EXECUTING, AND REPORTING FOR GRANT FUNDING

"Music and the Recorded Sound Heritage of the Americas: Preservation
Planning 
and Implementation Funding."
Speaker: Kristin Murphy, Grant Officer, GRAMMY Foundation.

"Recorded Sound Collections: Preservation and Access Funding Opportunities."
Speaker: Charles C. Kolb, Senior Program Officer, National Endowment for the
Humanities.

"Recorded Sound and the Digital Library: Success Stories of the National
Leadership Grant Program."
Speaker: Rachel L. Frick, Senior Program Officer, National Leadership
Grants, Institute of Museum and Library Services.

"Save Our Sounds: The Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access
Project."
Speaker: Adi Gevins, Coordinator, The Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation
and Access Project, and Gary Handman, Director, Media Resources Center,
University of California Berkeley, Moffitt Library.

INTAKE REQUIREMENTS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND DISSEMINATION

"Acquisitions Partnerships: Collaborative Strategies for Preservation and
Access."
Speaker: Gene DeAnna, Head, Recorded Sound Section, Library of Congress,
National Audio Visual Conservation Center.

"Modeling Cooperation: What Does Partnership Look Like?"
Speaker: Bruce Gordon, Audio Engineer, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard
University.

"Preserving America's Cultural Traditions: A Collaborative Archival
Initiative of the Nation's Folklife Centers."
Speaker: Steve Zeitlin, Executive Director, City Lore.

"The Arhoolie Foundation's Frontera Project: How a Small Non-Profit with No
Money, No Paid Staff, and Little Experience Was Able to Find Funding to Free
Its Archive from a Locked Vault and Share It with the World."
Speaker: Tom Diamant, Digital Archiving Director, Arhoolie Foundation's
Strachwitz Frontera Encyclopedia of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings.


Additional speakers to be announced.


The workshop registration fee is not included in the conference registration
fee. Early workshop registration (postmarked by March 7) is $75 for ARSC
members, $85 for non-members, and $40 for students. After that date,
registration is $85 for members, $100 non-members, and $45 students.
Detailed information about the workshop can be found at:
http://www.arsc-audio.org/conference/workshop.html

Please direct all workshop-related questions to:
Karen Fishman, [log in to unmask], 202-707-5856.



The 2008 ARSC Conference, March 26-29, offers a number of learning
opportunities, including preservation-oriented talks:

-- "Bits is Bits, Right? Check Again!" (George Blood)
-- "The iPod in the Archive, or the Potentials and Pitfalls of Consumer
Technology as a Model for Preservation and Access" (Aaron M. Bittel)
-- "Initial Developments in Developing Principles and Methodologies for
Moving Image and Audio Preservation in Research Libraries" (Joshua Ranger)
-- "Choosing Your Favorite Children: A Prioritizing Tool for AV Collections"
(Marcos Sueiro Bal)
-- "Using the Field Audio Collection Evaluation Tool (FACET) to Aid
Selection for Preservation" (Mike Casey)

The topic of this year's Technical Committee Roundtable is "A Primer on
Analog Playback." Talks planned for this session are:

-- "Why Analog Playback is Critical for Successful Audio Preservation" (Mike
Casey)
-- "Playback of Magnetic Tape" (George Blood)
-- "Playback of Grooved Media: Are Equipment, Supplies, and Expertise
Becoming Obsolete?" (Seth Winner)
-- "Playback of Grooved Media: Transfer Methodology" (Eric Jacobs)

Don't forget to bring your technical questions to the "Ask the Technical
Committee" special evening session.

For further preliminary program details:
http://www.arsc-audio.org/conference/pdf/2008-prelim-agenda2.pdf




The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is a nonprofit organization
dedicated to the preservation and study of sound recordings -- in all genres
of music and speech, in all formats, and from all periods. ARSC is unique in
bringing together private individuals and institutional professionals --
everyone with a serious interest in recorded sound.