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Selection in Sound Archives

Selection in Sound Archives: collected papers from IASA conference sessions

Edited by Helen P. Harrison (1984)

IASA Special Publication No. 5

©1984 by the International Association of Sound Archives

[paper edition: ISBN 0 946475 02 4]

web edition published 2010

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Table of contents

  • Preface
  • Preface to this web edition (2010)
  • Introduction (Helen P Harrison)
  • Philosophical and methodological aspects of Selection (Poul von Linstow)
  • Problems of selection in research sound archives (Rolf Schuursma)
  • Oral history criteria for selection in the field (David G Lance)
  • The art of appraisal and selection of sound recordings archival retention (Leslie Waffen)
  • Selection for Whom? (Ernest J Dick)
  • Selection in theory and practice at the Public Archives of Canada (Jacques Gagné)
  • Selection in practice (Mark Jones)
  • Selection in radio sound archives: a problem of documentation (Ulf Scharlau)
  • Criteria for Selection and classification in the BBC Gramophone Library (Derek Lewis)
  • Selection and classification in the BBC Popular Music Library (Leslie Wilson)
  • Selection policy in the Imperial War Museum sound department (Peter Hart)
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