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Eric Jacobs wrote: > On Friday, December 04, 2009 7:33 AM, Michael Biel wrote: > > >> I discuss in my Ph.D. dissertation "The Making and Use of Recordings >> in Broadcasting Before 1936" >> > > So cool! Mike, would you be willing to scan and share (or even > update and republish) your dissertation? > > > It's 1,183 pages long! I have been hoping to update it but have said that I need it scanned into a word processing format first! But in its current form it is available like any other PhD dissertation in microfilm or hard copy from University Microfilms or whatever it is called this year. >> ARSC-AAA published an extensive preservation manual about 20 years >> ago, >> > > See http://www.arsc-audio.org/publications.html and order a copy of > > Pickett, A.G., and M.M. Lemcoe. Preservation and Storage of Sound > Recordings (74 pp., paper.) 1991 reprint of this standard-setting > Library of Congress booklet originally published in 1959. > > There have been advances since 1959, of course, and different > chemistry is available today, but Pickett and Lemcoe are still an > excellent starting point. > > > This is good but doesn't have much of value on lacquers. The report I had meant is ARSC-Associated Audio Archives Committee. /Audio Preservation: A Planning Study./ (860 pp.) which is also listed on that page. Mike Biel [log in to unmask] >> there are a number of web sites that have pages about the topic. >> But there is a lot of mis-information floating around out there. >> > > My webpage on the subject: > > http://www.theaudioarchive.com/TAA_Resources_Disc_Transcription.htm > > > Eric Jacobs > > The Audio Archive, Inc. > tel: 408.221.2128 > fax: 408.549.9867 > mailto:[log in to unmask] > http://www.TheAudioArchive.com > Disc and Tape Audio Transfer Services and Preservation Consulting > > >