Final Project Update

For my final project I'm digitizing different mediums for the UT Heritage Society, which is also part of my Capstone project. For this class, I'm hoping to work more with audio and visual items, and this week we started looking at some of the records my supervisor has in his collections. He bought an Ion USB archival-turntable that we set up and experimented with today. It's fairly basic, and it's main purpose is to make mp3s out of the music you play.

It has a few setbacks: one being that you can't pause a recording should you need to flip the record and another being that it only works with 33.5 and 45 rpm and my supervisor, Jim, has one 78 rpm record from the 1920s. I hope we can find a way to get that record digitized since Jim hasn't heard it before. He said it's a Victrola record with the song "The Eyes of Texas" on it, which is pretty cool.

He also has at least 3 films, all different sizes, and no means of digitizing them. I'm hoping I can utilize some of the iSchool's equipment and allow the Heritage Society to finally see these films that they've had for years. The films are from 1948-1954, which is quite cool, but no one knows what's on them!

Up until now, I've scanned many pages from the alumni magazine as well as some pictures and slides. The digitization class has been very handy in helping me get the best of the photos (the Photoshop tutorial was extremely helpful), and I'm sure it will helpful with these new mediums I'm working with.