I can't even imagine doing what Marie or any of the others mentioned
here have done. I've been migrating my little collection to new shelving
and it seems daunting. To suffer that kind of catastrophe and work so
long and hard on recovery...it's mind boggling.
joe salerno
On 5/23/2012 3:02 PM, Tom Fine wrote:
> Hey, Scott just came up with another ARSC Conference panel (set of
> presentations) idea -- "Disaster Recovery, When Hell Breaks Loose."
> Marie and some of the folks from NOLA can tell the whole story, now that
> archives are being rebuilt. It would be interesting also to include
> someone who's had to clean up a more mundane mess, like years of leaky
> pipes in a basement store room that ended up containing valuable unique
> sonic archives. Also, probably not possible, but would be interesting to
> know if UMG was able to salvage anything from the studio lot fire.
>
> Marie, nice to hear things are progressing.
>
> -- Tom Fine
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott D. Smith"
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> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 3:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Progress from New Zealand
>
>
>> Marie:
>>
>> Wow, what a huge undertaking!
>>
>> My guess is at the end of this you should be able to present a great
>> paper on how to deal with handling a collection that has been impacted
>> by an earthquake.
>>
>> Glad to know you are safe.
>>
>> Regards,
>> --Scott
>>
>> Scott D. Smith CAS
>>
>> On 5/23/2012 3:10 AM, Marie O'Connell wrote:
>>> Greetings
>>>
>>> Today we finished sorting our known accessions from 1997 to 2012. We
>>> have
>>> yet to sort the accession analogue discs and Mobile Unit analogue
>>> discs and
>>> are awaiting our custom made crates. This will be the end of the sorting
>>> process and then we have a collection of 'orpans' which will be added.
>>>
>>> Thus far, John Kelcher and myself have physically sorted into crates
>>> well
>>> over 70,000 wax cylinders, analogue discs, open reel tapes, CDR's,
>>> DAT's,
>>> cassettes, VHS, mini disc, U-matic tapes etc. These have all been put on
>>> many spread sheets ready to be uploaded to our database.
>>>
>>> This is a real achievement as we prepare ourselves to get back to actual
>>> preservation which we have not been able to do for over 20 months.
>>>
>>> Our former building has officially been 'red zoned' and is due for
>>> demolition. We remain in temporary digs until a purpose built
>>> building can
>>> be worked out. We do continue to have aftershocks regularly, the latest
>>> being a 4.8 on Sunday, this just keeps you on your toes. The archive was
>>> not affected.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Marie
>>>
>>
>
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Joe Salerno
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