Folk heritage collections in crisis.
Danielson, Virginia.
Cohen, Elizabeth(Elizabeth A.)
Seeger, Anthony.
American Folklore Society.
American Folklife Center.
Washington, D.C. : Council on Library and Information Resources,
c2001.
In December 2000, a group of folklorists, sound engineers, preservation experts, lawyers, librarians, and archivists met to discuss what would be needed to ensure the long-term accessibility of folk heritage sound collections. The American Folklore Society and the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress convened the meeting, with support from CLIR, National Endowment for the Arts, and National Endowment for the Humanities. This report includes the text of the three keynote presentations. A list of 27 recommendations for access, preservation, and rights management is presented, as well as responses to the presentations and summaries of the discussions.
Contributors: Virginia Danielson, Elizabeth Cohen, Anthony Seeger.
"May 2001".
Includes bibliographical references.
In December 2000, a group of folklorists, sound engineers, preservation experts, lawyers, librarians, and archivists met to discuss what would be needed to ensure the long-term accessibility of folk heritage sound collections. The American Folklore Society and the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress convened the meeting, with support from CLIR, National Endowment for the Arts, and National Endowment for the Humanities. This report includes the text of the three keynote presentations. A list of 27 recommendations for access, preservation, and rights management is presented, as well as responses to the presentations and summaries of the discussions.
Stating the obvious : lessons learned attempting access to archival audio collections / by Virginia Danielson -- Preservation of audio / by Elizabeth Cohen -- Intellectual property and audiovisual archives and collections / by Anthony Seeger.
Sound recordings
Archival materials
Sound archives
Audio-visual archives
Folklore archives
Also available via the World Wide Web.