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Magnetic recording—a brief history
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How long will audio and video recordings last?
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Preserving audio recordings

Brandis, Leanne 9 December 1993, Magnetic tape deterioration, Conservation DistList, URL http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/.

National Film & Sound Archive c 1990, How to care for your audio collection, National Film & Sound Archive, Canberra, Australia.

Nishimura, Douglas 13 December 1993, Magnetic tape deterioration, Conservation DistList, URL http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/

Stielow, Frederick J. 1986, The management of oral history sound archives, Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut.

Ward, Alan 1990, A manual of sound archive administration, Gower Press, Aldershot, UK and Brookfield, Vermont, U.S.A.

Smith, Leslie E. 1991, Factors governing the long-term stability of polyester-based recording media, Restaurator, Vol. 12 (4), Munkgaard International Publishers Ltd, Copenhagen, pp 201–18.

Preserving video recordings

Association for Moving Image Archivists-AMIA-L List server. To subscribe send an email message to listserv@ukcc.uky.edu with the following text as your message:
"subscribe AMIA-L first-name family-name".
For example: 'subscribe AIMA-L Alan Howell'
Important: Do not put any other text in the subject or cc message boxes.

Bogart, John W. C. 1995, Magnetic tape storage and handling: a guide for archives and libraries, Washington, D.C.: Commission on Preservation and Access and St. Paul, MI: National Media Laboratory. All Commission on Preservation and Access publications are available from the Commission at 1400 16th Street, NW, Suite 740, Washington, D.C. 20036-2217. Phone +1 202 939 3400,

Fax +1 202 939 3407.

Botte, David 1992, A basic guide to colour TV and VCRs: An Electronics Australia publication, Federal Publishing Company, Alexandria, NSW.

Boyle, Deirdre 1993, Video preservation: securing the future of the past, Media Alliance, New York.

Boyle, Deirdre 1996, Forgetting tomorrow: preserving the present and the past for the future, The Helix, CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Vic, pp 11–12.

National Film & Sound Archive c1990, How to care for your videos, National Film & Sound Archive, Canberra, Australia.

Saffady, William 1991, Stability, care and handling of microforms, magnetic media and optical disks, part two, magnetic media, Library Technology Reports, Vol 20 (1), American Library Association, Chicago.

Smith, Leslie E. 1991, Factors governing the long-term stability of polyester-based recording media, Restaurator, Vol 12, Munkgaard International Publishers, Copenhagen, pp 201–218.

Swartzburg, Susan G. 1995, Image and sound: the care and preservation of motion pictures, sound recordings and videotape, Preserving library materials: a manual, The Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, New Jersey & London.

Vidipax, the magnetic media restoration company World Wide Web home page and resources, URL http://www.panix.com/~vidipax/.

Waters, Edgar 1995, Guidelines for audio and audiovisual recording in the South Pacific, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

Wheeler, Jim, 6 March 1996, The Current State of American Television and Video Preservation, Statement by Jim Wheeler before the Library of Congress Panel, Listserv AMIA-L@UKCC.uky.edu, Thu, 7 Mar 1996.

Preserving digital information

The Commission on Preservation and Access WWW home-page contains several reports on preserving digital information. Their URL is http://www-cpa.stanford.edu/cpa.html

Conservation Online WWW home-page http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/

Dollar, Charles 1994, Issues for archivists, records managers and IT managers: provenance, obsolescence, standards and preservation, A window to the future, School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, University College London, London: International Study Centre for Records Management; Sydney, NSW: Educational Film Services Australia, pp 25–38.

Elkington, Nancy E., ed. 1994, Digital Imaging Technology for Preservation, Proceedings from an R.L.G. Symposium held March 1994, RLG, Cornell University, Ithica, New York.

Freedman, Alan 1994, The computer glossary: the complete illustrated dictionary, 7th ed., American Management Association, New York, N.Y.

Howell, Alan A workshop on the use of digital imaging technology for preservation and access, Lasie, vol. 27, no. 1, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, pp 26–41.

Kenney, Anne & Chapman, Stephen 1995, Digital resolution requirements for replacing text-based material: Methods for benchmarking image quality, tutorial, The Commission on Preservation and Access, Washington D.C.

Mohlhenrich, Janice, ed. 1993, Preservation of electronic formats and electronic formats for preservation, Highsmith Press, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin.

Nader, Jonar C. 1995, Prentice Hall's illustrated dictionary of computing, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, Sydney, NSW.

Pilgrim, Aubrey 1995, Upgrade or repair your PC, McGraw-Hill, New York, N.Y.

Robinson, Peter 1993, The digitization of primary textural sources, Office for Humanities Communication Publications Number 4, Office for Humanities Communication, Oxford.

Rothenberg, Jeff, 1995, Ensuring the longevity of digital documents, Scientific American, vol. 272, (1), Scientific American Inc., New York, pp 24–29.

Schuller Dietrich, Chairman 1995, Recommendations of the Memory of the World Programme International Advisory Committee, Sub-committee on Technology, UNESCO, Paris.

The Commission on Preservation and Access & the Research Libraries Group 1995, Preserving digital information, Draft report of the task force on archiving of digital information, Version 1.0. URL http://www.rlg.stanford.edu.

 

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