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Thank you for all the suggestions and help... please keep it coming. I am still sifting through all of Richard Hess's suggestions and the threads that stem from them. I have my copy of Marvin Camras' book on the way too. However, I wanted to clarify my second question, about institutions digitizing their own cassettes, and I apologize in advance because I suspect this question is naive. Nonetheless, I didn't mean to suggest that anyone with a tape deck and a PC should start digitizing cassettes. Rather I was wondering if folks on the listserv thought that there was some middle ground and if audio cassettes might be a part of that middle ground? So I guess a better way to state the question is: WIth some modest investment in equipment, resources and training do folks on this listserv believe an archive/museum/historical society could responsibly digitize (for preservation) its own audio cassettes of spoken word materials? or even more dynamic content like music? Or is this just something that should only be done by professionals in a professional environment? (and Mr. Hess did answer this in his response, but I wonder what other opinions might be.) Best, -Derek > >