Hoover Archivists Innovate for the Preservation and Access of Rare WWII Recordings
From the Hoover Institution:
In October Jim Sam, Digital Migration Analyst at the Hoover Library & Archives, delivered a convention presentation concerning the preservation and digitization of the valuable and fragile WWII-era sound recordings held at the Hoover Archives. Sam and his colleagues, Brandon Burke and Rayan Ghazal, are setting new standards for the care of lacquer discs that are notoriously susceptible to disintegration
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Filed under: Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Preservation
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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