Summary
Unlike many paper materials from archives that we are used to obtaining with relative ease on microfilm (and more recently in digital formats), the legal conundrum that surrounds the copyright status of pre-1972 sound recordings has further inhibited access and use of these materials, even those from the earliest days of commercial recording. The descriptive metadata populating the site is taken directly from the bibliographic records in the catalog, and while the site's searching allows one to specify keyword, author (sic), title, subject, year, or call number, UCSB's OPAC, Pegasus, is a more robust search engine (http://www .library.ucsb.edu/catalogs/pegasus/index .html).
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Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project. University of California, Santa Barbara. http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu (accessed January-February 2007). [Requires an Internet connection; Web browser; Apple QuickTime for streaming; speakers or headphones]
One of the difficulties teachers and scholars have faced when trying to integrate into their work recordings made before the LP era is simply the matter of access. Tim Brooks's recent ...See the full content of this document
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