Radio Station’s Music Collection Brings Big Challenges to U. of Texas at Austin

Wired Campus 2014-02-17

Summary:

The Fine Arts Library struggles to process the 60,000 unorganized CDs that will be available to the public. (Photo courtesy of U. of Texas Libraries)

The U. of Texas at Austin’s Fine Arts Library has 60,000 CDs to process and store before they can be made available to the public. (U. of Texas Libraries photo)

Some of us remember the days when CD organizers were a thing. Whether you had CD towers in your living room or binders with plastic sleeves for the discs, it always seemed as if there never was enough space.

For most of us, those days are history—albums nowadays are easily stored in our computers, phones, or tablets. But the University...

Link:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/radio-stations-music-collection-brings-big-challenges-to-u-of-texas-at-austin/50551

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Authors:

Danya Perez-Hernandez

Date tagged:

02/17/2014, 13:40

Date published:

02/17/2014, 13:35