Vinyl-Loving Librarian Speaks About Preservation Week [video]

By Josh Hadro on April 28, 2011

Brian Schottlaender, University Librarian at the University of California, San Diego, likes records. And he’d like to see others be able to listen to them decades down the road; fortunately, he’s in the right profession. In a video produced for Preservation Week, he describes his personal collection and philosophy on preservation:

Don’t miss the Captain Beefheart and Mothers of Invention albums in there. Seems taste isn’t dead after all, and future generations might just have a chance at having some–if librarians can figure out the best way to preserve these popular and other less popular but essential materials.

via Preservation Week: A Vinyl Obsession | At Your Library.

See also: the Preservation Week website, as well as the latest on music and digital preservation from the Library of Congress:

–Library of Congress Sets Goals in Digital Preservation Report, Including Push for Copyright Change
–Library of Congress Study Shows Dire State of Sound Recording Preservation

Comments

Steven V. Kaszynski says:

April 28, 2011 at 10:58 am

I find a particular value in playing a record in its original format. Some more modern records sound awful on vinyl and are better off kept digital. Unfortunately, most people aren’t music snobs or audiophiles, and vinyl, like 8-tracks, cassettes, and CDs, was doomed for the cutout bin.
Still, I’d hate to see library vinyl collections end up in non-circulation or confined to listening rooms due to the vulnerability of the medium.