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Josh Harris / Media Preservation Coordinator / University of Illinois Libraries / jsharrs@illinois.edu
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Illinois Guest Post on Indiana University’s Media Preservation Initiative Blog

Recently I was asked by Mike Casey, head of the Media Preservation Initiative at Indiana University, to write a guest piece for the media preservation blog at IU. My post, published a few weeks back, is part of a series of guest posts on the new trend in media preservation programs at academic libraries. Also […]

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Early sound recording experiments heard for the first time!

Working alongside scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California and specialists from the Library of Congress, curators and researchers at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History have successfully played back some of the earliest audio recordings in the collection.  Testing groundbreaking digital techniques on some of Alexander Graham Bell’s earliest audio […]

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