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Hear the Voices of Brooklyn’s Diverse Past Through a New Digitization Project

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 11, 2017

The Brooklyn Historical Society’s oral historian discusses the museum’s new online platform for audio.

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Shuffle 200,000 Tracks from European Sound Archives

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 18, 2017January 18, 2017

Europeana Radio is a new platform to access thousands of historic tracks from audio collections in European libraries, universities, and other institutions.

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Digitized Artist Talks from the 20th Century, from Alice Neel to Gordon Parks

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 28, 2016November 28, 2016

The Maryland Institute College of Art’s Decker Library is digitizing rare audio from their cultural lecture archives, and offering them to stream on the Internet Archive.

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Listening to Archived Sounds Amid the Stacks at the New York Public Library

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 23, 2016May 31, 2016

Up on the second floor of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, you might hear the rising notes of opera faintly ringing from a card catalogue, or see people wearing headphones at the ends of the sheet music aisles.

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An Archive of 10,000 Cylinder Recordings Readied for the Spotify Era

by Claire Voon November 4, 2015November 17, 2015

From cakewalks to carols, historic sounds of all kinds are preserved at the University of California, Santa Barbara’s Cylinder Audio Archive.

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The World’s Largest Wildlife Sound Archive and the Urgency of Preserving Noise

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 17, 2015August 20, 2015

Digital archives are essential for sharing information and encouraging its preservation, especially for sound.

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