[78-L] cleaning and digitizing 78s

[Michael Biel]

I would recommend for information on cleaning for you to look at
http://discdoc.com/  especially since you say that the records are not
in very good condition.  I would also suggest you looking into a Keith
Monks record cleaning machine.  


I also agree that you check with IASA  www.IASA-web.org  and ARSC (it is
not IARSC) at http://ARSC-Audio.org , but even more important is for you
to join the important organization in your part of the world, SEAPAVAA, 
SouthEast Asia-Pacific AudioVisual Archives Association. 
http://www.seapavaa.org/  Unfortunately their annual conference starts
in TWO DAYS in Indonesia!!!!  I'm looking at the pictures of last years
conference right now and I see a couple of friends of mine and two of my
former students from Thailand who went to my university in Kentucky,
Morehead State University.  Oh my goodness, I just noticed that one of
them is now the President of the association!!!!!!!  She is TUENJAI
SINTHUVNIK, who we called Lek.  My other student is Kannika Chivapakdee
who is chair of the Collection, Promotion and Access Committee.  Contact
them next week when they have gotten home to Bangcock from the
conference.  Mention my name and I am sure they will bend over backwards
to help you out!!  I last saw them at the IASA Singapore conference in
2000.  I am sure they can also put you in touch with the other archives
in Taiwan.    

Good luck in setting up your digital archive.  It will be a valuable
resource.

Mike Biel   mbiel at mbiel.com   


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [78-L] cleaning and digitizing 78s
From: "I. Cubillo" <i.cubillo at telefonica.net>
Date: Tue, May 12, 2009 4:37 am
To: ".78L" <78-l at 78online.com>

What I recommend to you is to search through Google. There are myriads
of
websites devoted to these subjects. Try to attach to official websites,
like
the ones sustained by national archives, The Library Of Congress (US),
The
BBC, British Sound Research Institute (into the British Library) and the
like. You'll find lots of information about the matter.

You'd better try first websites devoted to recordings, like IASA
(International Association for Sound Archives), IARSC (International
Association for Recorded Sound Collections) and the like.

Sure you'll have lots of documents on the subject to study thoroughly!

Iñigo Cubillo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ying-fen Wang" <nanguanl at ntu.edu.tw>
To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 2:31 AM
Subject: [78-L] cleaning and digitizing 78s


> Dear list,
>
> As a new subscriber to the list, I am writing to seek your advice on
> cleaning and digitizing 78s.
>
> I am a faculty member at National Taiwan University. We just purchased
about
> 550 78s of Taiwan music and some records recorded in Amoy.
>
> We are now looking for ways to clean and digitize these records. The goal
is
> to set up a digital archive of these records (and hopefully with more to
> come).
>
> I wonder if there has been discussion on this on this list. I tried to
> search for this on the list's archive. But there are too many of them, and
I
> don't have time to go through each of them.
>
> Any help and advice would be most appreciated.
>
> One thing I would add is that the condition of the records collected in
> Taiwan are usually rather bad.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ying-fen Wang
>
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>
>
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