Dear experts on recorded sound preservation, The National Federation of the Blind owns thousands, if not tens of thousands, of hours of sound recordings that we need to preserve in the most efficient way, while still having ready access to them. All of our current recording is done digitally, and stored on MAM-A professional grade gold CDs. Our collections extend back to the 1950s and include reel-to-reel and cassette masters, as well as digital audio tape and other digitized recordings on CDs. Much of the digitization of the older material was done haphazardly. As you can imagine, the sound archives are quite important to an organization of blind people. We would like retrospectively to insure that all our recordings are digitized professionally and stored in a little space as possible given concerns for preservation. We recently joined ARSC, and I signed up for this listserv in order to learn from folks in the sound preservation enterprise. Any advice you can provide will be much appreciated! I thank you in advance. Ed Morman Edward T. Morman, MSLS, PhD Director, Jacobus tenBroek Library NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND JERNIGAN INSTITUTE 1800 Johnson Street Baltimore MD 21230 410.659.9314 x2225 410.6595129 (fax)