jcwlib

How has the SCOTUS changed over the past 20 years and how is it the same?

One of my favorite older NPR stories is the coverage of the Vietnam War protests that aired on the first broadcast in May 1971. You are transported back to the busy and crowded streets in DC instantly.

Good question! Most of our collection is on CD (from 1984-2013) with these CD copies being created in the last 3-5 years. 1971-1983 are still on reel-to-reel tapes and we convert to digital files as requests come in. From May 2013 - present we only store digital files.

Providing context for the materials within an archive as well as preserving the content is important. Perhaps describing what the app did in the metadata for an record can help future users understand the context of the content.

We mostly converted from reel-to-reel to CD for the NPR collection. We have done some conversion from DATS to CD and cassette to CD.