> Have any of you had experience transferring old audiotapes to CDs for your > library's archives?
Year 2004 prices in the U.S.A. are a total mystery to me but if you project having a lot of stuff to copy now and in the future, you might consider buying the electronic bits and pieces necessary to make CD copies from tapes and/or records for yourself. You already have the computer. There are a lot of tapes and records out there that will never be re-released in CD format. Tapes and videos are utterly passe'; over time, tape stretches and gets all weirded-out. (Filmstrips on the other hand are making a come-back as curiosities from gentler, simpler, lowest-tech times when all you still need is a mega magnifying glass and a large light bulb out of Dodger Stadium.) In 2001 Norman Brickman, member of the AJL list, offered us 719 radio episodes on 8 CD's from the radio program Eternal Light. I bless Norm's name. I kiss his dirty shoe. Fabulous. I especially love the dialogs between Mark van Doren and Maurice Samuel "The Words We Live By". Their words are like a head massage; better than aspirin. In Valencia (which is about as far from the centre of the galaxy that a body can get without actually falling out), there are two places called "Playback" (it's the same place just in two different places). They are open to the walk-in off-the-street public. They sell sodas, water, chocolates, ice cream and bread sticks to help you while away the hours you spend feeding the copying machine with coins. They even have a monitor with non-stop MTV (spanish style a.k.a. boring). I'll wager that places that do tape-to-CD copying in your town are listed in the Yellow Pages. Alas and Alack however, for what I paid those bold-as-brass high-school drop-outs I could have bought all the necessary electronic junk and set up my own studio to boot. Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti "La Javura" http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
