The Preservation of Sound Recordings

Abstract

For more than 130 years, our sounds have been recorded and those recordings have become vital to our collective history and memory. Much of this is not available commercially, and the only way for those recordings to be saved for future generations of researchers and scholars is for libraries and archives to make every effort to preserve them. History and proper storage and handling of cylinder recordings, discs (shellac and vinyl), magnetic tape and wire, and digital recordings are addressed, including re-recording onto newer formats as necessary.

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