[Preservenw] Samuel Brylawski Talk on Audio Preservation

[Gary Menges]

Date: May 16, 2006
Time: 2:00pm
Place: Mary Gates Hall, Room 420
 	University of Washington

What goes around has come around--
New policies, practices, and trends in audio preservation

In the past few years, historical recordings, sound archives, and audio 
preservation have received unprecedented support and interest from 
Congress, endowments, and private foundations. The National Recording 
Preservation Act of 2000 will result in a national plan for the 
preservation of sound recordings and a foundation to support preservation 
work. In 2007, the Library of Congress will open its National Audio Visual 
Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia. Both the Mellon Foundation and 
the National Endowment for the Humanities have recently funded historical 
audio projects.

Sam Brylawski, editor of the University of California Santa Barbara 
Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings, and former head of the 
Library of Congress Recorded Sound Section, will present an overview of 
many promising developments in audio archiving, offer his view of what the 
future holds for audio archives in the United States, and point out some 
the existing impediments to ensuring the preservation of our audio 
heritage and wide access to the hundreds of thousands of historical 
recordings held by public archives.