Released
10/15/2016
Three UCLA Library staff members - Dawn Aveline (Preservation Officer), Yasmin Dessem (Audiovisual Preservation Specialist), T-Kay Sangwand (Librarian for Digital Collection Development) - traveled to Havana, Cuba to meet with partner organization Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Martí, bring a portable digitization setup, and lead a digitization and metadata training with the aim of digitzing historical newspapers. The trip included a public presentation by Yasmin on the preservation of analog audio, and visits to the Laboratorio Nacional de Música Electroacústica, El Museo Nacional de la Música, the recording studio Estudios Abdala, and return trips to the Instituto de Historia de Cuba, Casa de las Américas, and Cinemateca de Cuba.