Teachers' tales go online: digitizing oral histories on cassettes
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Authors
Pearman, Alice
Date
1/1/2019
Type
text
Language
en_US
Keywords
Digitization of archival materials , Digital preservation , Metadata , Online collections , Oral history , Sound recordings
Alternative Title
Abstract
Article.
Description
For a time beginning in the 1970s, cassette tapes were very popular for recording oral histories. Today, these cassettes have exceeded their expected lifespan. Photographs, newspapers, and yearbooks fill many online repositories, but libraries and archives may find themselves wondering how to digitize an audio collection. This article presents a case study of one librarian's effort to run a pilot digitization project for twenty-one oral history cassettes.
Citation
Pearman, A. (2019). Teachers' tales go online: Digitizing oral histories on cassettes. The American Archivist, 82(1), 124-136.
Publisher
The American Archivist (ISSN 0360-9081), volume 82, issue 1