Reports, Guidelines and Standards

• Care and Handling of Archival Materials
  • Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs (joint publication of NIST and CLIR)
  • The Care and Handling of Recorded Sound Materials (Gilles St. Laurent, National Library of Canada)
  • Care of Sound Recordings (National Library of New Zealand)
  • Cylinder, Disc and Tape Care in a Nutshell (Library of Congress)
  • Magnetic Tape Storage and Handling - A Guide for Libraries & Archives [PDF]
• Description, Organization, Access and Surveys
  • Audio Archiving: Current Issues and Selected Readings
  • Audiovisual Archiving: Philosophy and Principles (UNESCO Document) [PDF]
  • Preserving Access to Digital Information: Audio and Audiovisual Material (National Library of Australia)
  • The Safeguarding of the Audio Heritage: Ethics, Principles and Preservation Strategy (IASA, TC-03 version 2)
  • Survey of Reissues of US Recordings (CLIR)
  • Survey of the State of Audio Collections in Academic Libraries (2003)
• Hardware, Formats, and Other Technology
  • Data Storage Technology Assessment [PDF]
  • Digital Formats for Content Reproductions (Library of Congress)
  • DVD Drive Compatibility Test Project (NIST)
• Preservation, Digitization, and Restoration
  • Audio Digitization Standards (Michigan State University Libraries)
  • Audio Preservation and Restoration (John R. Gibbs, University of Washington Music Library)
  • Capturing Analog Sound for Digital Preservation: Report of a Roundtable Discussion of Best Practices for Transferring Analog Discs and Tapes (CLIR)
  • Cleaning and Preservation of Cylinders and Discs
  • Digital Audio at the National Library of Canada (guidelines and best practices)
  • Directory of Information Sources on Scientific Research Related to the Preservation of Sound Recordings, Still and Moving Images and Magnetic Tape
  • The Galvano/Cylinder Mould Player
  • Preserving Oral History Recordings (Colin Webb and Kevin Bradley)
  • Procedures for Recovering Audio and Sound Recording Materials
  • Restoration Tips and Notes (Richard L. Hess)
  • The Safeguarding of the Audio Heritage: Ethics, Principles and Preservation Strategy (IASA, TC-03 version 2)
  • Sound Savings: Preserving Audio Collections
  • Working Paper on Digitizing Audio for the National Gallery of the Spoken Word and the African Online Digital Library