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National Endowment for the Humanities

NEH helps to break the sound barrier

April 5, 2018 - Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa

Rare sound recordings to be preserved and made accessible with grant

For the first time, sound recordings documenting the work and lives of notable cultural figures such as Julia Alvarez, Truman Capote, William Faulkner, Norman Bel Geddes, Norman Mailer, Anne Sexton, and Gloria Swanson will be publicly available for research. [Read more…] about NEH helps to break the sound barrier

Filed Under: Conservation Tagged With: audio, National Endowment for the Humanities, sound recordings

Help us meet this year’s goal for a National Endowment for the Humanities challenge grant

July 17, 2017 - Amy Kristofoletti

In 2010, The Chronicle of Higher Education noted, “No campus library in the U.S. mounts exhibitions to rival those of the University of Texas at Austin’s special-collection library, the Harry Ransom Center.” [Read more…] about Help us meet this year’s goal for a National Endowment for the Humanities challenge grant

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Research + Teaching Tagged With: National Endowment for the Humanities

Deadline: 2028—Countdown to preserve audio materials

April 27, 2017 - Amy Armstrong

A wax cylinder in new housing.

We left off in part one wondering how to evaluate the Ransom Center’s unique non-commercial sound recordings, particularly when we aren’t able to access their audio content prior to preservation. Verifying written descriptions helps, but there are other considerations to keep in mind, such as a recording’s physical format—different types of material become increasingly unstable with age, but at different rates, and in different ways. [Read more…] about Deadline: 2028—Countdown to preserve audio materials

Filed Under: Conservation, Digital Collections Tagged With: Amy Armstrong, audio, audiocassettes, audiovisual materials, belts, compact disc, David Douglas Duncan, Denis Johnson, dictation discs, digitization, Ernest Lehman, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mel Gussow, microcassettes, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Recording Preservation Plan, Norman Mailer, phonograph records, preservation, Preservation Self-Assessment Program, reel to reel audio tapes, sound recording, survey, wax cylinders, wire recordings

Deadline: 2028—Time is not on our side

April 27, 2017 - Amy Armstrong

A lacquer disc.

High stakes for cultural heritage

In just 11 years, the Harry Ransom Center could reach the point of no return!

[Read more…] about Deadline: 2028—Time is not on our side

Filed Under: Conservation, Digital Collections Tagged With: Amy Armstrong, audio, audiocassettes, audiovisual materials, belts, compact disc, David Douglas Duncan, Denis Johnson, dictation discs, digitization, Ernest Lehman, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mel Gussow, microcassettes, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Recording Preservation Plan, Norman Mailer, phonograph records, preservation, Preservation Self-Assessment Program, reel to reel audio tapes, sound recording, survey, wax cylinders, wire recordings

NEH Grant Supports Ransom Center’s ‘Writers Without Borders’ Project

March 29, 2017 - Jennifer Tisdale

The Harry Ransom Center has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support a two-year, $195,000 project to arrange, describe, selectively digitize, and share its PEN records. The Ransom Center holds the archives of PEN International and English PEN, who share the mission of promoting literature and defending freedom of expression around the world.

[Read more…] about NEH Grant Supports Ransom Center’s ‘Writers Without Borders’ Project

Filed Under: Research + Teaching Tagged With: Cataloging, literature, National Endowment for the Humanities, PEN International

Writers without borders: The power of PEN

March 27, 2017 - Harry Ransom Center

PEN. Appeal to All Governments, printed text in English, French, and German, 1931.

The story of twentieth-century political activism, persecution, and creative expression cannot be fully understood without exploring the rich materials in the PEN records at the Harry Ransom Center. [Read more…] about Writers without borders: The power of PEN

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: National Endowment for the Humanities, Nobel Prize, PEN archive, PEN International

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