Audio Digitizing for United Methodist
Seminaries, Archives, and Historical Societies
DIGITIZED ♦ PROCESSED ♦ RETURNED ♦ WAV & MP3 FILES ♦ ONLINE ♦ ARCHIVED AT GCAH
United Methodist seminaries, archives, and historical societies may have audio reels, cassettes, and DATs processed at a cost of $35 per audio program. Note: All of this is included:
♦ Standard service of digitizing the program and saving the audio as an original WAV file, a processed WAV file, and MP3 file, and the metadata.
♦ Unless inappropriate (see the right column,) the program may be included on SoundTheology.org for online listening. Students and others can listen any time with no sign-up and no cost.
♦ The programs will become part of the permanent collection to be archived by the United Methodist General Commission on Archives and History (GCAH).
Inclusion online at SoundTheology.org:
Musical programs will not appear online unless copyright-cleared. Those programs will still be digitized, returned to the school with audio files, and included in the GCAH archive collection. Speech recordings of school-sponsored events prior to February 15, 1972 are usually the property of the school and not a copyright issue. Voice recordings after February 14, 1972 will be considered individually for concerns. Most of those we process are “works for hire” or participants in a school-sponsored program and are appropriate to put online.
PDF Download a PDF submission form to fill out for sending tapes. Alternatively, you may have an existing set of records to send with the tapes.
PDF Download a PDF sheet with instructions for packing and shipping.