Les archives sonores de la poésie: production – conservation – utilisation

As recent reports by the United States Library of Congress have shown, many historical sound recordings are in danger of degradation or destruction, due to the decomposition of the media upon which they are inscribed (Library of Congress; CLIR and Library of Congress). Reel-to-reel tapes, which have a stated shelf-life of 25 years, threaten to disintegrate into chips and powder as they await digitization in sometimes less-than-ideal archival storage. The same is true of acetate transcription ..