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For schools with existing content on audio tape, SANS provides a PC Cassette
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shuttle analog audio in a digital language lab. Control for the tape deck has
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> I'm the new part-time coordinator for the language lab in the intensive
> English program here at Iowa State, where we have a ton of old paper- and
> cassette-based materials that are collecting dust on our shelves.
It is not legal to digitize it without permission.
A possible exception might be if cassette players are so antiquated you
don't have them any more and this is the only way you can access the
material. That wouldn't work for a book, though! And it only applies to
libraries that serve the public, I think.
Look in your files and see whether there is a folder of permissions
regarding this material. While foreign-language textbook publishers
typically give (occasionally sell) permission to copy or digitize
materials FOR STUDENTS WHO HAVE PURCHASED THE TEXTBOOK, ESL publishers
often do not give such permission. I think they assume the students are
more motivated and can purchase such materials themselves. At any rate,
such permissions usually apply only to the audio for a textbook
currently in use.
A turnkey language lab, if you have one, should allow you to play a
cassette for a student or group of students. Often such tapes were
designed to be used this way by an instructor.
This kind of old ESL material is one reason we keep a few cassette
players in the lab (the remnants of our trusty 1987 Sony lab). The
students can sort through the old books, pick out one that appeals to
them, find the tape, and sit down to work with book and tape. A few
students a year do this regularly.
But--most of these ESL materials in our lab DO collect dust, because
they are not appropriate for self-study (old course books) or outdated
(Toefl/TSE prep).
I am not sure what to do with the old materials. You could give them
away to students who want them, maybe, if they are complete sets, or to
teachers who are familiar with the materials. If you only have one set
of tapes and many books, that's not as useful to anyone.
Judy Shoaf
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