Audiovisual materials come in many formats and can be found throughout our collections. They may be audio recordings of oral histories on reel to reel tape, VHS cassettes with sound and images from campus plays, or a video tape from your local public television station for which you never had a play back machine. Regardless of format, what all analog audiovisual media have in common is that they are depend on format specific players and they are aging. The United States’ National Recording Preservation Plan Sound Study published in late 2012 stated that “many analog audio recordings must be digitized within the next 15 to 20 years—before sound carrier degradation and the challenges of acquiring and maintaining playback equipment make the success of these efforts too expensive or unattainable.”

 

 

This class is not about digitization of audiovisual materials, but about care and handling concerns of the physical media. Care that allows for institutions to make strategic decisions to allocate resources and to get ready for a digitization program down the line.

 

 

 

 

Learning Outcomes:

 

 

• Identify most major audiovisual formats
• Discuss proper material care, storage and handling
• Apply low cost preservation actions to institutional holdings

 

 

This class will be held in the Lyrasis Adobe Connect meeting room. Log-in information will be emailed approximately one week before the course.

 

 

 

 

Presented by: Alix Bentrud, Lyrasis

 

 

 

 

Registration deadline:  03/03/2015

 

 

 

 

Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline.

 

 

Non-Member Registration Form