Behind the Scenes: CLIR Recordings-at-Risk Grant to Digitize Senate Audio, 1993-2005
The Senate Audio for 1993-2005 has been flagged as problematic for a few years, because the Dictaphone equipment used for production and playback was first discontinued and then totally abandoned by its maker. Although we had access to an old Dictaphone machine, it eventually broke down, and there was no way to procure the parts…