Auburn journal june 14 20188/1/2023 But even that was lost when, over the years, Auburn University Libraries lost its ability to play magnetic tapes.Īs a founding member of the international digital preservation community and a longtime advocate for sharable knowledge, Trehub has long been concerned about the loss of certain legacy media (such as magnetic tapes and magnetic computer media) that contain a great deal of irreplaceable material. By the time the project is complete, we will have hundreds of recordings digitized.”Īt one time the only way to hear these tapes was to physically come to Auburn to listen to them in the library on a reel-to-reel tape deck. And we’re just beginning to scratch the surface of what we have in these tapes. There is probably no more primary a resource than to hear a person speak without the filter of a person writing their words down as they understood them or reporting after the fact. I also love listening to Auburn students engage with these speakers during question and answer periods. To hear their view of the world then in their own voice is inspiring. These are all people who had reached the pinnacle in their fields. “Boxer Mohammad Ali, Senators Barry Goldwater and Edward Kennedy, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, journalist Harry Reasoner, attorney William Kunstler and many others. “It is amazing how many prominent figures of the time came to Auburn University,” said Schmidt. Special collections librarian Greg Schmidt has been heading the effort to digitize the recordings. Many donors responded positively and the project was fully funded. As its project, Special Collections and Archives requested donors give money to obtain a reel-to-reel tape player and the appropriate digitizing equipment to turn the magnetic tapes into digital files that could be easily shared. Our problem was only having these speeches on obsolete magnetic media that could not be read by anything we had in the library.”Īuburn University’s annual Tiger Giving Day offered the solution. They would be of interest to anyone either professionally or casually studying the period. “The Vietnam War was being fought, desegregation was gaining steam, and Watergate was in the news. “When we discovered these hundreds of reel-to-reel tapes in our archives, I immediately appreciated the historical significance of them as a window into a turbulent time in American history,” said Aaron Trehub, Assistant Dean of Technology, Auburn University Libraries and head of Special Collections and Archives. The first of these newly digitized recordings are now available for researchers and casual listeners free online. Originally recorded in the 1960s and ‘70s, these recordings represent a treasure trove of the actual words of political and military leaders, sports figures, journalists and entertainers. Mark is a licensed architect in Washington and Oregon.Auburn University Libraries Opens Archive of Audio Recordings from the 1960s and ‘70sĪuburn University Libraries Special Collections and Archives Department has been working to make available a large number of audio recordings of the university’s Horizons Lecture Series, Auburn Profiles Series, Auburn Conference on International Affairs, and various other speeches and programs conducted on campus, many of which have not been available to researchers and scholars for many years. At once of the place and for its people, Mark creates places to live, celebrate, reflect, and learn. He strives for accountable sustainability through research, passive before active systems, and double or triple duty solutions that inspire efficiency and design excellence at multiple levels. His ability to listen, interpret, and ask the right questions to foster collaboration is specifically beneficial. Layering conceptual design within ecological processes, Mark’s work celebrates the human activities of a place through the embrace of nature and materials, the movement of the sun, and the passage of time. His approach to scale based regenerative design matches occupant, program, and climate to place in projects, ranging from interpretive focused nature centers to public parks, adaptive reuse, museums, heirloom homes, and municipal infrastructure. His work with cultural institutions, municipalities, and communities has allowed him to develop a keen eye toward architecture, landscape, and experience as a system, yielding a true sustainability of place. He is a design collaborator and strategist, drawing the best from clients, teammates, and community members alike, and his leadership excels at a range of project types and scales. With over 25 years of delivering one of a kind public and private projects, Mark brings a place based, integrative approach to his work.
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