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Observing the Slightest Motion: Using Visual Tools to Preserve Sound

Posted by: Tana Villafana

This is a guest post written by Peter Alyea. Peter is a Preservation Science Specialist in the Research and Testing Division of the Library of Congress and has been working with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on imaging recorded sound collections for preservation and access since the inception of the IRENE project. Although making audio recordings …

Posted in: Conservation, Heritage Science, Music, Preservation, Sound Recordings, Tools of the Trade

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But, What Is It? How Research Science Informs Preservation

Posted by: Tana Villafana

I’m a research scientist and I’ve worked in a laser, microscopy, or spectroscopy laboratory (and sometimes a lovely combination of the three) for the past seventeen years. The last five of those years I’ve been lucky to call myself a Chemist at the Library of Congress, working in the optical properties lab of the Preservation …

Posted in: Conservation, Heritage Science, Preservation, Tools of the Trade