Sunday, June 8, 2008
In the News: Vinyl makes a comeback
Vinyl goes from Throwback to Comeback
Not everyone has the same preferences, and preferences change over time, so it is important when considering preservation to also consider that what is popular now may not be what is popular in the future. A good example of this is the recent upsurge in interest of vinyl records, which have experienced a %20/year growth rate over the last five years, due in part by the tactile and audio differences presented by vinyl records compared to other audio formats. According to one interviewee in the article, "no one cares about CDs anymore, but people will buy an album because it's huge artwork and it's limited pressing" (Perry, 2008).
Because of these sorts of characteristics, making decisions about what it to be preserved, and in what format, must be made carefully. Not all preservation methods retain every aspect of the original piece of information, and choosing the wrong format for the type of information to be preserved could negatively impact the value of the preserved information.
works cited:
Perry, J. (2008, June 2). Vinyl goes from throwback to comeback. The Boston Globe.
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The return of the older music format is apparent in USF too as the media Resources area in the Library is constantly asked for records from on-site storage. In my humble opinion they sound better than CDs.
I tend to agree, and that is something that I talk about in the next post - the experience of information and what that means in relation to it's preservation. Certain types of information have other attributes that make them what they are, and if we lose these in the process of preservation, what does that do to the original?
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