Audio and Video Archiving

After reading about the challenges and successes with archiving this type of data, it convinces me (now more than ever) that there should be a 501 Intro to Science and Tech course AND a 502 Intro to Science and Tech II course.  For newbies to the technical side of libraries, like myself, the knowledge I gained in the intro course just skimmed the surface of information pertinent to archiving. Chapter 9 eloquently described it: there are the technical issues (obsolete formats, etc) and then there’s the different metadata knowledge and considerations that are required for archiving these materials.  I think there should be two jobs: one techie and one metadata expert for each project!