Are piles of VHS tapes and audio cassettes tapes found on the shelves of your collections storage areas? Lack the confidence to jump-start and carry through the preservation of an endangered audio and/or video tape collection?

Through demos, case studies, and practice with hands on activities and discussions, participants in this 5 week course will learn how to:

• analyze information contained in inventories to develop a project scope;
• decide on preservation file types;
• calculate both digitization and storage costs;
• adopt recommended practices for safeguarding the files and metadata;
• evaluate their institutional capacity to carry out audio or video tape preservation in-house.

Participants will also be introduced to finding a vendor and preparing for/managing an outsourced project, along with post-digitization quality assurance to make sure you got what you paid for.

Find out more: https://www.connectingtocollections.org/c2c-care-course-magnetic-media/