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April 15, 2003

Contact:
Helen Dalrymple (202) 707-1940, [log in to unmask]

Web site:
www.ischool.utexas.edu/~soundsavings/



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AND THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS TO HOST SYMPOSIUM ON SOUND
PRESERVATION

Conference Scheduled for July 24-26 in Austin, Tex.

The Library of Congress Preservation Directorate and the Preservation and
Conservation Studies Program of the School of Information at the University
of Texas at Austin, realizing the growing need for a national forum on audio
preservation, are sponsoring a symposium on "Sound Savings: Preserving Audio
Collections."

The symposium, which is co-sponsored by the National Recording Preservation
Board and the Association of Research Libraries, will be held July 24-26 in
the newly renovated Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center on the
University of Texas campus at Austin.

"Sound Savings" will feature talks, demonstrations and exhibits by experts
in the field of audio preservation, on topics ranging from assessing the
preservation needs of audio collections to creating, preserving, and making
publicly available digitally reformatted audio recordings. The
two-and-a-half-day symposium will explore many of the technical, procedural
and practical issues central to preserving and making available sound
recordings.

For more information and to register for the symposium, visit the "Saving
Sounds" Web site at www.ischool.utexas.edu/~soundsavings/.


The Library of Congress has the most extensive preservation program in the
world.  Each year the Library's preservation staff provides conservation
treatment to approximately 500,000 items from a collection of more than 126
million items in all formats.  The Library's Conservation Division has been
a world leader in developing the profession of library conservation, and
many innovative treatments have been developed in its laboratory over the
years.  For additional information on the activities of the Library's
Preservation Office, visit the Library's Web site at www.loc.gov.


Iona McCraith
AAO Preservation Consultant
Bethany, Ontario
Tel: (705) 277-1309
Fax: (705) 277-2091
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