--- Forwarded Message from Lucinda Miller <[log in to unmask]> --- >User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.2509 >Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:47:27 -0400 >Subject: Audio archiving >From: Lucinda Miller <[log in to unmask]> >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> I have been asked to throw out our entire collection of audiotapes (for an idea of what we have, http://languagelab.bh.indiana.edu/audio/tapeinfo.html) in order to clear the room they are in for use as a classroom. (It would be a horrible space for a classroom, by the way.) When I balked at that, it was suggested they be put in storage on the other side of campus. I sincerely hope that I have staved that off for the time being, by offering to shrink the collection, but I can see what's coming, sooner or later, and I'm afraid, sooner. What I have been doing with the old tapes that I believe are worth archiving is digitizing them at 44.1 kHz, 16-bit mono, and making audio CDs of them along with CD-roms of the aif files. I know this is not a good solution, either, because the CDs are likely to last only 7 years or so. Does anyone have any better ideas? Part of the problem, of course, is that I really do need to thin the collection, and I haven't had time! I guess I had better find time. We probably have upwards of 2000 hours of material that I think we should keep, but I don't know if I can convince the powers that be. Thanks. -- Lucinda Miller, interim assistant director Center for Language Technology and Instructional Enrichment Indiana University 120 Ballantine Hall 1020 E. Kirkwood Bloomington, IN 47405-7103 (812) 855-0005; fax: (812) 855-5656 *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning, and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://consortium.dartmouth.edu). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************