Guest lecture by Mary Laverty, Belfer Audio Archive Librarian. Posted with permission.

1. History of Recorded Sound at the
Belfer Audio Archives
Spring 2011

2.  The SU Library audio
archive was founded
in 1963, when the
Joseph and Max Bell
collection of 150,000
sound records was
purchased for
$100,000.
 Under the founding
leadership of Walter
Welch (1963-1991) the
archive grew.

3.  The Belfer Audio
Laboratory and Archive
was opened in 1982.
Some pre-existing spaces
were retrofitted for the
collections. Offices, a Live
End-Dead End recordings
studio with dual control
rooms was built.
 The studios were built
specifically to allow
analog rerecording of
cylinders and diamond
discs on their the original
phonographs.

7.  Belfer Audio Archive
Cylinders
 http://
library.syr.edu/
digital/splash/
cylinders/
 UCSB Cylinders
 http://
cylinders.library.ucsb.
edu/

9.  Way One  Way Two
Search Discover Search the web
http://library.syr.edu/ Search print discographies
Search the record labels Find:
Search Summit record company name
http://library.syr.edu/ Record number
Recording matrix
Fill out a reference question Fill out a reference question
or listening request at or listening request at
http://library.syr.edu/ http://library.syr.edu/
belfer/services/ belfer/services/
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