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Sound recordings -- Conservation and restoration

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• Sound recordings
• Conservation and restoration

• Capturing Analog Sound for Digital Preservation: Report of a Roundtable Discussion of Best Practices for Transferring Analog Discs and Tapes (2006) (PDF at clir.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Sound Souvenirs: Audio Technologies, Memory and Cultural Practices (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2009), ed. by Karin Bijsterveld and José van Dijck (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Wonderful Inventions: Motion Pictures, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound at the Library of Congress (Washington: The Library, 1985), ed. by Iris Newsom, contrib. by Erik Barnouw (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Latest Blues by Columbia Race Stars: Columbia New Process Records, Made the New Way, Electrically, Viva-Tonal Recording, The Records Without Scratch (ca. 1927), by Columbia Records, Inc. (page images at HathiTrust)

• Capturing Analog Sound for Digital Preservation: Report of a Roundtable Discussion of Best Practices for Transferring Analog Discs and Tapes (2006) (PDF at clir.org)

• Copyright and Related Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Unpublished Pre-1972 Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives (2009), by June M. Besek (PDF with commentary at clir.org)
• Copyright Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Pre-1972 Commercial Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives (2005), by June M. Besek (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• Record Labeling: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session, on Contents of Music and the Lyrics of Records, September 19, 1985 (Washington: GPO, 1985), by United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cash Box (partial serial archives)
• Recording Musician (British magazine, 1992-1993) (full serial archives)

• Gramophone (1923-) (partial serial archives)

• The Piracy Crusade: How the Music Industry's War on Sharing Destroys Markets and Erodes Civil Liberties (Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, c2013), by Aram Sinnreich (PDF with commentary at piracycrusade.com and various other sites)

• Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-to-Peer Debates (West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, c2006), by John Logie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Copyright and Home Copying: Technology Challenges the Law (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Bytes and Backbeats: Repurposing Music in the Digital Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2011), by Steve Savage (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Vinyl Theory (Amherst, MA: Lever Press, c2020), by Jeffrey R. Di Leo
  • HTML and Epub with commentary at Lever Press
  • HTML and PDF at JSTOR

• Copyright and Related Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Unpublished Pre-1972 Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives (2009), by June M. Besek (PDF with commentary at clir.org)
• Copyright Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Pre-1972 Commercial Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives (2005), by June M. Besek (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• Protection for Pre-1972 Sound Recordings under State Law and Its Impact on Use by Nonprofit Institutions: A 10-State Analysis (2009), by Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, contrib. by Peter Jaszi and Nicholas B. Lewis (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• The Art and Science of Audio Book Production (1995), by Billy R. West (HTML at loc.gov)

• Science Fiction and Fantasy (1994), by Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (page images at HathiTrust)

• Braille Book Review (partial serial archives)

• Talking Book Topics (with additional materials) (partial serial archives)

• A Philosophy of Cover Songs (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by P. D. Magnus (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Rock This Way: Cultural Constructions of Musical Legitimacy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Mel Stanfill (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• A Philosophy of Cover Songs (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by P. D. Magnus (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Recording, Documentation, and Information Management for the Conservation of Heritage Places (2 volumes; Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2007), contrib. by Robin Letellier, Werner Schmid, François LeBlanc, Rand Eppich, and Amel Chabbi
  • Volume I (Guiding Principles): PDF at getty.edu
  • Volume II (Illustrated Examples): PDF files at getty.edu

• Airborne Particles in Museums (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 1993), by W. W. Nazaroff, Mary P. Ligocki, Lynn G. Salmon, Glen Rowan Cass, Theresa Fall, Michael C. Jones, Harvey I. H. Liu, and Timothy Ma (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• The Nature of Conservation: A Race Against Time (Marina del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute, c1986), by Philip R. Ward (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Metallography and Microstructure of Ancient and Historic Metals (Marina del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute and Archetype Books, c1991), by David A. Scott (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Monitoring for Gaseous Pollutants in Museum Environments (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c2006), by Cecily M. Grzywacz (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Questioni Pratiche di Belle Arti: Restauri, Concorsi, Legislazione, Professione, Insegnamento (in Italian; Milano: U. Hoepli, 1893), by Camillo Boito (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Minbar from the Kutubiyya Mosque (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; et al., c1998), contrib. by Jonathan Bloom, Aḥmad Tawfīq, Stefano Carboni, Jack Soultanian, Antoine M. Wilmering, Mark D. Minor, Andrew Zawacki, and El Mostafa Hbibi (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• The Stoa of Attalos II in Athens (Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1992), by Homer A. Thompson, illust. by Alison Frantz (page images at Google)

• The Stoa of Attalos II in Athens (Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1992), by Homer A. Thompson, illust. by Alison Frantz (page images at Google)

• Boxes for the Protection of Books: Their Design and Construction (Washington, DC: Preservation Directorate, Collections Services, Library of Congress, 1994), by Lage Carlson, John Bertonaschi, Margot Healey, Lynn Kidder, Nancy Lev, Bob Muens, Carol Paulson-Crawford, and Carrie Beyer, illust. by Margaret R. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Care and Repair of Books (New York: R. R. Bowker, 1946), by Harry Miller Lydenberg and John Archer (page images at CMU)
• Book Preservation Technologies (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• The Enemies of Books (1888 edition), by William Blades
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text

• Planning and Engineering Guidelines for the Seismic Retrofitting of Historic Adobe Structures (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c2000), by E. Leroy Tolles, Edna E. Kimbro, and William S. Ginell (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Seismic Stabilization of Historic Adobe Structures: Final Report of the Getty Seismic Adobe Project (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c2000), by E. Leroy Tolles, Edna E. Kimbro, Frederick A. Webster, and William S. Ginell (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Early Gothic Saint-Denis: Restorations and Survivals (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Pamela Z. Blum (HTML at UC Press)

• International Study on the Impact of Copyright Law on Digital Preservation (updated version, September 2008), by National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (U.S.), Joint Information Systems Committee, OAK Law Project, and Stichting SURF (PDF at digitalpreservation.gov)

• E-Journal Archiving Metes and Bounds: A Survey of the Landscape (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2006), by Anne R. Kenney, Richard Entlich, Peter B. Hirtle, Nancy Y. McGovern, and Ellie L. Buckley (PDF at clir.org)

• Recording, Documentation, and Information Management for the Conservation of Heritage Places (2 volumes; Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2007), contrib. by Robin Letellier, Werner Schmid, François LeBlanc, Rand Eppich, and Amel Chabbi
  • Volume I (Guiding Principles): PDF at getty.edu
  • Volume II (Illustrated Examples): PDF files at getty.edu

• Recording, Documentation, and Information Management for the Conservation of Heritage Places (2 volumes; Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2007), contrib. by Robin Letellier, Werner Schmid, François LeBlanc, Rand Eppich, and Amel Chabbi
  • Volume I (Guiding Principles): PDF at getty.edu
  • Volume II (Illustrated Examples): PDF files at getty.edu

• Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization: A White Paper (2008), by Oya Y. Rieger (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• Manuscripts and Documents: Their Deterioration and Restoration (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, c1955), by W. J. Barrow (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Conservation of Artifacts Made from Plant Materials (Marina del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute, c1990), by Mary-Lou E. Florian, Dale Paul Kronkright, and Ruth E. Norton (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Oxygen-Free Museum Cases, ed. by Shin Maekawa (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

• Inert Gases in the Control of Museum Insect Pests (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1998), by Charles Selwitz and Shin Maekawa (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)
• Oxygen-Free Museum Cases, ed. by Shin Maekawa (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.