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ARSC is pleased to recognize outstanding published research in the field of recorded sound with our annual Awards for Excellence. The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. Begun in 1991, the awards are presented to authors and publishers of books, articles, liner notes, and monographs, to recognize outstanding published research in the field of recorded sound.

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This is a friendly reminder that:

Early Bird Registration is ending 31 August for the IASA Annual Conference, "Connecting Cultures: Content, Context, and Collaboration", held 5-9 October 2014 in Cape Town South Africa.

http://2014.iasa-web.org/registration

Don’t miss this opportunity for significant savings! Register now and ensure your place at this gathering of the best and brightest from the sound and audiovisual archival community.

A study carried out by Audiovisual Preservation Solutions for the Library of Congress concerning an appropriate model for AV material has just been published: 

BIBFRAME AV Modeling Study: Defining a Flexible Model for Description of Audiovisual Resources

http://www.loc.gov/bibframe/pdf/bibframe-avmodelingstudy-may15-2014.pdf

"A rich treasure trove that not many know of, and even fewer have access to. Here, the air is thick with echoes from the past."

The All India Radio (AIR) sound archives is the largest library of music recordings in India, and also contains a large collection of spoken word recordings including interviews ranging from Pearl S Buck to George Harrison, speeches by Subhash Chandra Bose and public addresses by Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, and many others.