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Mission and Scope

The AAA Message Board is sponsored by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) and its Associated Audio Archivists Committee (AAA) as a service to members and the archival community at large.

Topics appropriate for the board include discussion about recorded sound research, history, innovations, archiving, preservation, access, copyrights, and announcements about archival activities and publications. Other sites may be more appropriate forums for subjective discussions of particular recordings or artists, restoration of antique equipment, buying and selling recordings and the collecting of ephemera. Messages posted to the AAA Message Board are publicly accessible and archived permanently. By posting to the AAA message board the contributor agrees to have his or her message become part of a permanent public archive.

Usernames and Identity

Please note that only real names (first and last) are accepted as Display Names on the AAA Message Board. Nicknames (“earlyjazzfan,” “MrMusic,” etc) are inappropriate for professional discussion and, consequently, not allowed. Those who elect to ignore this rule should expect their messages to be deleted.

Members are encouraged to enter their institutional affiliation in the [Your Location] field of their user profile. Contact information may be entered either (1) in one's user profile or (2) as a signature to appear at the bottom of each post. Either can be edited by clicking [My Controls] in the header of any page on this site.

If you are reading this because your message was deleted, feel free to contact Brandon Burke for assistance. You may be required to create a new account.

What Happened to ARSClist?

The AAA Message Board was created to complement ARSClist and serves as an alternative discussion forum with a particular emphasis on issues pertaining to recorded sound collection management. It is AAA’s hope that the robust functionality afforded by message boards – ability to post images as visual aides, ability to print entire threads in chronological order, etc – will benefit discussion and help make the AAA Board a valuable resource both for professional archivists and those seeking information about the care and handling of recorded sound collections.

For more information about ARSClist please visit: http://www.arsc-audio.org/arsclist.html

Host Institution

The AAA Message Board is licensed to ARSC by Invision Power Services. IPS provides the server, disk space, network connections, software and technical support to set up and run the board. Brandon Burke, Archivist for Recorded Sound Collections at the Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford University, coordinates the day to day management of the board.

Messages posted to the AAA Message Board do not necessarily represent the opinions of AAA, ARSC, the ARSC Board of Directors, the board administrators or the host.

The Fine Print

By subscribing to this message board, you agree to the following:

You are fully responsible for everything that you post and will follow the general rules of respectful civil discourse. The content of all comments is released into the public domain unless clearly stated otherwise. This message board is a project of ARSC's Associated Audio Archivists Committee. Neither ARSC, AAA, Invision Power Services, nor Stanford University control the content posted. The administrators of this message board may decline to post or may delete any messages deemed off-topic, disruptive, or personal (that is, directed to an individual rather than the greater good of the archival community) for any reason whatever, without consent, and we further reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to remove a user's privilege to post content on this message board.