Notable Projects
Over 300 Hours of "Friends" Radio Tapes Transferred For The Rainbow History Project in Washington, DC (2016):
RHP 2016 Annual Report (PDF outlining the project)
Radio Haiti Recordings on 1900 Cassettes & 1500 ¼" Reels Transferred For Duke University in Durham, NC (2016):
The Digital (After-)Life of Radio Häiti-Inter (Description of Entire Project - Written By The Project Archivist Laura Wagner)
The Radio Häiti Archive (Audio from Radio Häiti-Inter at the Duke Digital Repository)
Over 500 Dictaphone Dictabelts Transferred For The San Diego History Center in San Diego, CA (2015):
Oral History Program Webpage (San Diego History Center Website)
Duke Chapel Recordings on 200 Cassettes & ¼" Reels Transferred For Duke University in Durham, NC (2015):
Digitizing Divinity: New Duke Chapel Recordings Digital Collection (Duke Digital Collections Blog)
Victor Young Collection of over 350 Vinyl, Shellac, and Instantaneous Lacquer Discs Transferred For Brandeis University in Waltham, MA (2014):
Digitization of Victor Young recordings (Brandeis Library & Technology Services Blog)
The Baltimore Sun and WYPR Join Forces to Share World War II 1943 Christmas Program, Giving 71 Year Old Woman Chance to Hear Father's Voice For The First Time (2013):
Dad's Message Recorded At War, A Gift Given Decades Later (NPR Around The Nation)
After 71 years of silence, Margaret Ann hears her father's voice for the first time. (BBC Radio 4)
Unpublished JFK Tape Recordings Containing Interviews with Friends and Leaders Transferred From JFK Library in Boston, MA For Use In Public Radio Show "We Knew JFK: Unheard Stories From the Kennedy Archives." (2013):
We Knew JFK: Unheard Stories from the Kennedy Archives (project website)
Unpublished JFK Tapes Released 50 Years After Assassination (National Geographic Article)
Robert Frost lectures and interviews Transferred For Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH (2012):
Preservation Services at Dartmouth College: DJ: Spin that Disc! (Dartmouth Preservation Blog)
1960 Harry S. Truman Interviews on 102 Dictabelts Transferred For The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in Independence MO (2011):
Martin Luther King Jr. Speech Transferred For Bethel College in Newton, KS (2010):
MLK Day celebration to feature "lost recording," King colleague (Bethel College Press Release)
Lost King Speech To Be Heard After 50 Years (NPR Morning Edition Program)
1500 Compact Cassettes From Osama bin Laden's compound in Kandahār, Afghanistan Digitized For Yale University (2008):
At Yale, bin Laden’s audiotape collection yields new insights (New Haven Register Article)
Yale University preserves bin Laden Tapes (CNN Article)
Guide to the Islamic Fundamentalist Audio Recordings Collection (Yale Finding Aid)
Captain Fuller Sonoband Recordings Transferred For The Field Museum in Chicago, IL (2003):
Fuller Sonoband Recordings (Pacific Anthropology at the Field Museum)
Museum Rescues 'Endangered' Recordings (ScienceDaily Article)