Sound Students in the Archive

Kelvin Smith Library 2014 Digital Scholarship Colloquium
Sound Students in the Archive
Melissa A. Hubbard, Head of Special Collections and Archives, Case Western Reserve University
11/6/2014

This presentation will explore a collaboration between librarians and a Radio & Television faculty member to teach digital preservation methods to undergraduates interested in professional careers in audio engineering. The collaborators designed a series of lecture-based and hands-on instruction sessions to introduce students to a complete audio digitization workflow. Each student eventually digitized a reel-to-reel radio recording from the 1970s, then wrote a paper and participated in a roundtable discussion about digital preservation of archival recordings. Potential future directions for this type of instruction will be considered based on feedback from the student participants.

Colloquium website: http://library.case.edu/ksl/freedmancenter/colloquium/2014colloquium/