Saving Your Sounds: An introduction to preserving and using sound collections.

This free event will look at conserving and using sound recordings. This will interest any local history group or museum, library, archive or individual that holds sound recordings or is thinking of working with old sound recordings. It is organised by the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage Midlands Hub  and the East Midlands Oral History Archive (EMOHA), with support from the Oral History Society.

Date and time: Tuesday 9th July from 10am–3.30pm.

To register contact Colin Hyde on ch38@le.ac.uk or tel: 0116 229 7358. If you want lunch please state if you have any particular dietary requirements.

Location: Ogden Lewis seminar rooms, David Wilson Library, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH

Maps and directions can be found here – http://www.le.ac.uk/maps/ . The nearest public car park is the Granville Rd/Victoria Park car park, while the campus is a 20 minute walk from the train station.

Provisional Timetable

09.30-10.00         Tea/coffee/registration.

10.00-10.20         Introductions from Colin Hyde of the UOSH project. Updates from Helen Foster of EMOHA and Cynthia Brown of the OHS.

10.20-11.00         Why the UOSH project has been set up. What sound recordings exist in the region and why they are ‘at risk’? What will we be doing?

11.00-11.45         The history and identification of recording formats with hands-on examples.

11.45-12.00         Tea/coffee break.

12.00-12.45         Preservation of formats. A guide to digitisation.

12.45-13.30         Lunch (provided).

13.30-14.15         Cataloguing your sound recordings. Hints and tips.

14.15-14.30         Tea/coffee break.

14.30-15.15         Using the archives – ideas for what to do with your sound recordings. Learning and engagement.

15.15-15.30         Summing up/close with option of a look at the digitisation studio.