[rfu-automation] Fwd: [Stubblefield] Radio Notes, Getting Record Service

Wed Aug 27 12:03:57 CDT 2008

Well, after talking to my librarian girlfriend... we can really plow
through the cds and start indexing like madmen and madwomen if we got
a barcode scanner and an integrated library service like this:
http://www.koha.org/

But that only gets things indexed.

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Andrew Ó Baoill <andrew at funferal.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
> The forwarded mail (below), and the attached documents, may be useful in any
> work to build up the WRFU music library. I think this falls most directly
> under the Automation group, and I hope building our library might be one of
> the projects taken on by the group in the coming months (along with
> improving our process for dealing with PSAs).
> Two issues we're going to have to grapple with as we build our library:
> * Physical space for CDs and other media - this is already a concern, given
> the large number of CDs received from WEFT. We're temporarily storing many
> in the ramp area, but this isn't a long-term solution.
> * An effective cataloguing system, so that volunteers can readily identify
> what we have available. This could be linked to a digitization process,
> where CDs are made available on our fileserver(s) - it may be useful to work
> with our tech group on a long-term solution here, so we limit the risk of
> losing our entire library if a hard drive fails (something that happened to
> me some years ago).
> Andrew
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: cwtiii at comcast.net
> Date: August 27, 2008 5:53:19 AM CDT
> To: "Stubblefield" <stubblefield at lists.prometheusradio.org>
> Subject: Re: [Stubblefield] Radio Notes, Getting Record Service
> Reply-To: Stubblefield <stubblefield at lists.prometheusradio.org>
> Hi,
> Along with Bobby Powers I led an NFCB workshop this Spring on "Getting
> Record
> Service for your Station".
>
> I have attached two documents to this email:
> 1. The outline we worked from which does include hints on who to contact
> 2. An internal WTJU guideline to my volunteer music directors on how our
> particular
> music gathering works: how music should be handled once it has arrived and
> etc.
>
> A few caveats: WTJU has been receiving recordings since 1957 so we have an
> advantage over many of you whose stations are much younger. It is in the
> interest of a
> music servicer that their music be heard! So it's your job to convince them
> of your
> audience.
>
> The main caveat is that even we have seen a reduction in the number of
> recordings sent
> to the station. This has many reasons but primary amongst them is that the
> music
> companies have determined that most younger audiences want music digitally
> and not
> as a hardcopy.
>
> Though there is nothing inherently wrong with that there are a quite a few
> "gotchas"
> waiting in the wings of the corporate music world. Number one is the use of
> "proprietary"
> media delivery systems such as MPE http://plaympe.com/v3/
> MPE is one of MANY delivery systems including the well-known versions from
> Apple
> itunes.
>
> If you're trying to build a library of music using a proprietary media
> delivery system is a
> road to failure because many of these delivery systems will go out of
> business at some
> point in history (some, sooner than later). It is best to utilize downloads
> that allow you to
> save it as a wave file or something that is likely to prevail. You can burn
> the downloads to
> CD but will you? I hope the attached documents will help.
>
> Chuck
> (WTJU-FM)
>
>
>
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