The Outreach Committee of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections
(ARSC) posts the following message. If you have any questions, please click
on one of the links or e-mail addresses below.
--- 2009 ANNUAL CONFERENCE ---
You are invited to join friends and colleagues for the 43rd annual
conference of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. The event will
be held at The Liaison Capitol Hill, an Affinia Hotel, at 415 New Jersey
Avenue NW, Washington, DC, May 27-30.
The hotel, which opened in April 2008, is located three blocks from the
Union Station railway depot, ten minutes from Reagan National Airport, and
within walking distance of the U.S. Capitol, Library of Congress, the
memorials on the National Mall, and the Smithsonian museums.
For ARSC conference attendees, a block of rooms has been reserved for the
nights of May 26-30, at a special rate of $149 per night, single or double
(one king bed or two queen beds). The rate also applies three days prior and
one day after the conference, based on availability. Reservations must be
made by May 5 at (866) 233-4642 or reservati...@affinia.com. Remember to
request the ARSC 2009 DC Conference Rate. Rooms are available on a
first-come, first-served basis. We expect our room block to sell out before
the conference, and possibly prior to May 5.
For more information about the Liaison Capitol Hill:
http://www.affinia.com/Washington-DC-Hotel.aspx?name=Liaison-Capitol-Hill
Register early and save! Full conference registration postmarked by May 4 is
$145 for ARSC members, $170 for non-members, and $85 for students. After
that date, registration is $170 for ARSC members, $195 for non-members, and
$95 for students.
Single-day registration fees are as follows: $50 per day, members; $58 per
day, non-members; $30 per day, students. After May 4, $58 per day, members;
$65 per day, non-members; $35 per day, students.
For the complete preliminary program, registration form, and further details
about the conference:
http://www.arsc-audio.org/conference/
For further information (including exhibitor and sponsorship opportunities),
contact Brenda Nelson-Strauss, Conference Manager, at bnels...@indiana.edu
or 812-855-7530.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
ARSC is dedicated to the preservation and study of sound recordings -- in
all genres of music and speech, in all formats, and from all periods.
Reflecting this broad mission, the upcoming conference offers talks and
sessions that will appeal to both collectors and professionals.
Scheduled presentations include:
-- Copyright Reform: The Fight for Copyright Reform and What It Means for
You (Tim Brooks) and The Outlook for Sound Recording Copyright Reform in
2009 and Beyond (panel) comprise this keynote session, as ARSC actively
advocates in Washington for copyright reform to promote better preservation
of and access to our recorded heritage.
-- Dawn of Recording: The Julius Block Cylinders (Ward Marston),
Adventures in Archeophony (David Giovannoni), and New Directions in
Phonautographic History (Patrick Feaster) form the session devoted to
Recovering the Earliest Sound Recordings.
-- World premiere of the one-hour video documentary For the Record,
profiling record collectors (Leah Biel)
-- Use, Structure, and Furnishings of Edison Laboratory Room 13 (Gerald
Fabris)
-- Reproducing Cylinder Recordings: An Examination of Differences Between
Acoustic and Electronic Methodology (Lance Christensen)
-- Hoagy and Bix: The Seed of Harvestry (Rob Bamberger).
Don't forget the Collectors' Roundtable on Friday evening, May 29, where
you can share your expertise or favorite collecting stories.
PRE-CONFERENCE TOUR OF NAVCC
The Library of Congress invites registered conference attendees to tour the
new National Audio-Visual Conservation Center (NAVCC), in Culpeper,
Virginia, on May 27. Visitors will enjoy an in-depth tour of the
state-of-the-art facility that houses the sound-recording and moving-image
collections of the Library of Congress. The buildings on the 45-acre campus
provide 415,000 square feet of space for cataloging, re-formatting, and
storage of more than five million sound recordings, videotapes, motion
pictures, and born-digital works.
The library staff has planned this full-day open house especially for the
ARSC conference. Participants will be welcome in all the primary areas of
NAVCC: the Moving Image Section, Recorded Sound Section and Vault Spaces,
Digital Archive, Audio and Video Preservation Sections, Film Laboratory and
Nitrate Film Vaults, and the Mt. Pony Theater and Listening Auditorium.
Library staff will be on hand to discuss the facility and demonstrate their
work in many areas, including: high-end audio preservation suites for disc
and tape preservation; rooms for high-throughput audio digitization; IRENE
and SAMMA, new technologies for digitization of discs and videotapes;
vintage A/V equipment; cataloging and collection management tools and
strategies; processing of paper collections; new workflow
