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Conservation

Hands-on research designed to preserve the Center’s collections

November 13, 2020 - Genevieve Pierce

This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Learn about the series and click here to add your voice to the conversation. 

Our work in the Harry Ransom Center’s Preservation and Conservation Division focuses on caring for the Center’s vast and varied collections. Much like the interdisciplinary nature of today’s engineering and medical professions, science, technology, and craft underpin the work of the division’s conservators and preservation technicians. While our work as preservation technicians focuses heavily on preventive actions such as integrated pest management and monitoring the storage and exhibition environments, we also design and construct protective enclosures to safeguard collection objects, photographs, books, audiovisual recordings, works on paper, and more. [Read more…] about Hands-on research designed to preserve the Center’s collections

Filed Under: Conservation, Featured1, Featured2 Tagged With: Research, What is Research?

Preserving fragile phonographs of T. S. Eliot, Paul Bowles, Norman Bel Geddes, and others

August 13, 2020 - Chloe Gise

Recordings of T. S. Eliot, Paul Bowles, Pablo Picasso, and other notable 20th-century figures have been preserved after the Harry Ransom Center recently digitized 2,800 unique sound recordings in a variety of formats (read more here). Unlocking Sound Stories, a project funded in part by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities is preserving and providing access to 2800 recordings (click here for more on the grant ). Among the sound formats preserved were cassette tapes, reel-to-reel audio tapes, and phonograph discs. [Read more…] about Preserving fragile phonographs of T. S. Eliot, Paul Bowles, Norman Bel Geddes, and others

Filed Under: Conservation, Featured1 Tagged With: archive

Unlocking sound stories

July 8, 2020 - Katherine Quanz

In part one of a two-part blog post series, NEH Audio Digitization Project Coordinator Katie Quanz chronicles the progress of Unlocking Sound Stories, a NEH grant funded project digitizing and preserving more than 2000 rare recordings.  [Read more…] about Unlocking sound stories

Filed Under: Cataloging, Conservation, Digital Collections, Featured1 Tagged With: archive, audio, audio recording, digitization, NEH

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