The preservation re-recording of audio materials in sound archives

The purpose of this study was to survey preservation re-recording practices in sound archives and to compare them to the professional literature generated on the subject. This research paper describes interviews conducted with sound archivists to determine the practice of preservation re-recording of audio materials at their respective institutions. Each of the institutions visited carry out some form of preservation re-recording. All of the institutions, however, exhibited large gaps between accepted practice and their own practice. Examples of the gaps were a lack of professional staff familiar with re-recording procedures, insufficient institutional support for re-recording programs, and a shortage of high quality studio equipment