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The NCTA Collection (Cont'd)The collection, currently housed at the NCTA offices in a temperature and humidity-controlled environment, includes reel-to-reel tapes, digital audio tape (DAT), cassettes, and CDs, which chronicle traditional music, oral history, dance performance, and workshops from festivals, tours, concerts and rare studio sessions. Aware that these irreplaceable recordings were deteriorating and were at risk of being lost, the NCTA created a plan to preserve its collection, one that allowed for continuous access to this working archive. The NCTA has built a state-of-the-art audio lab in its own offices to handle the work of digitizing and preserving its endangered collection. Once processing is completed, The NCTA Collection will be permanently housed at the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress. The NCTA is dealing with its collection in new ways on the digital frontier, and believe our activities will contribute meaningfully to the base of knowledge on new preservation and access technologies and other issues of specific importance to folk heritage collections. The NCTA retains the intellectual property rights to its collection, and has extensive plans for projects that will provide public access to these precious recordings in the near future. It also plans to make its digital audio lab and experienced technicians available to others with at-risk collections in need of preservation. |
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