The School of Library and Information Studies will offer a course entitled "Preservation and Management of Audio-Visual Archives" (SLIS 839) as part of the 2002 Summer Session. It will be taught by David Seubert, Curator of Performing Arts Collections at the University of California-Santa Barbara. Seubert notes that the course is structured "to teach the students the fundamentals of managing audio-visual archives, including identification, storage, handling and playback of various media, and the myriad of options that the AV archivist is faced with in preserving and providing access to archival audio and moving image materials."
The Music Library's Preservation Studio will serve as a laboratory giving the students an opportunity for hands-on experience with the types of hardware and software used in digital preservation of audio materials.
Seubert, an alumnus of the University, previously taught the course in the summer of 2000. Formerly, he worked in the Music Library and served as the first audio technician in the Preservation Studio, producing its earliest digital transfers.