Re: [ARSCLIST] Analog Masters (side comment)

[Steven Smolian <smolians@xxxxxxxxx>]

 The name of the organization supporting the reformatting was identified on
the air as "The Smolian-Giovanoni Foundation."

This was a bit of an inside joke, since Dave Giovanoni and myself both do
things with NPR.

Dave and I now hold regular board meetings to complain about how slowly the
project is being implemented.

Steve Smolian




----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Taylor" <rtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Analog Masters (side comment)


> Last month I spoke about audio preservation at a conference attended
mostly by
> art conservation students.  One of them approached me afterwards and asked
me
> if I'd heard anything about this big reformatting project that was going
on at
> LOC.  She said they were reformatting everything to large discs.  I was
> thinking some kind of super-sized, super audio CD.  But then she said the
discs
> were made of shellac.
>
> She was a little bit irked at NPR when I told her I thought they were
pulling
> her leg.
>
> http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1216161
>
>
> Rick Taylor
> Graduate Student
> Preservation and Conservation Studies
> School of Information
> University of Texas at Austin
> rtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Quoting Jerry <gerald.green@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > I hadn't heard that show, and for the second time in many years I was
taken
> > in by NPR on April Fool's Day.  The first time was several years ago
when
> > my clock radio came on to a story about an innovative technique whereby
> > newborns were fitted out with an implanted chip that enabled them to
> > acquire new learning effortlessly.  As I cursed away at this
"advancement,"
> > my wife said "April fool, dear!" --   Jerry
> > At 08:35 AM 5/15/2004, you wrote:
> > >>If shellac discs have a "best before" date...
> > >this reminds me of the story on NPR about how the LOC was converting
> > >all audio to shellac 78's for posterity. (it was on April first last
> > >year)
> > >Dale
> > >dale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >www.longrunaudio.com
> >
>