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Yes, I agree that many archivists are ignorant of audio, so that is why we need trained engineers to work with them. There is usually some audio-heads available on any campus that would be happy to help out part-time on archival projects, some even willing to volunteer if the subject interest is there. We have to be careful to not make the same mistakes as in some other fields, such as land mapping where it is assumed software can replace trained cartographers, and the output is a hard to read map without a proper key or scale or low resolution data is mistakenly used for high resolution work. By bringing more engineers into archival work is a very good thing for both professions. Robert Wasserman WI Historical Society Sound Achives [log in to unmask] > >And for Alyssa's comments about sound engineers. I'd like to hire one, but >I think that for many institutions it is a stretch just to hire somebody at >the curatorial level with expertise in audio media let alone an audio >engineer. We do have an audio engineer in the library that I consult with >regularly, but she works for another branch. In my experience, training as >a sound engineer does not qualify one to do archival work, though audio >people are not nearly as ignorant of archival issues as the video people >are. (Why aren't you burning everything to DVD? I get that at least once a >month.) The audio training is great for pulling cable and getting rid of >ground loops all sorts of other important things that many archivists are >terrible at, but an archival sound technician/engineer needs two kinds of >training to do their job right. > >David > >David Seubert, Curator >Performing Arts Collection >Davidson Library Special Collections >University of California >Santa Barbara, CA 93106 >(805) 893-5444 Fax (805) 893-5749 >mailto:[log in to unmask] >http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/pa/ _________________________________________________________________ Get McAfee virus scanning and cleaning of incoming attachments. Get Hotmail Extra Storage! http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es