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TO:    Tamar Goshen Gottstein, 24 Shimson, Baaka, Jerusalem 93501;        Tel: 02-734560
FROM:  Steve Amdur, Kibbutz Haon, Jordan Valley, 15170 Israel.
       Telephone:  972-6-757572; FAX:  972-6-757554
DATE:  01/13/95
RE:    Inventory-ing of tapes of R. Joel Glick
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You mention in your note that R. Joel entrusted his tapecollection of teachings to you for safekeeping, that it consistsof aproximately 54 tapes, most of which are in plastic cases, butthat's it's not clear that all the tapes are teachings of R.Shlomo, and that only a few are marked by year (which years are1977-1981) and that more commonly the tapes are marked by wherethe event was -- eg `Rosh Hodesh Kislev'.

In response to your note, I'm taking the liberty of offering a fewsuggestions about how one might inventory and preserve thesetapes.

I suppose the first step is to physically safeguard the tapes --carefully dusting them off if necessary, moving them into a securebox if necessary, ensuring that all are in plastic cases.

One should next make a working inventory of them; a label on thebox with an arbitrarily assigned sequential number G01 ... G54 ,with a list of whatever is said about the tape on the case and onthe tape-label, plus a listing of the type of tape (eg Sony EF 90)

One then needs to more adequately inventory the tapes, bylecturer, and if possible by place and date of teaching.  Thatshould be possible by playing the first few minutes of each tape;one can recognize the voice of R. Shlomo, and of some of the otherspeakers.  If the teaching was at R. Joel Glick's, he might be thefirst speaker.

One can then relabel the tapes in a more systematic way, firstseperating out the teachings of R. Shlomo, then arranging those inchronologic order (insofar as possible), then assigninginformative labels (eg %yymmdd  when date of teaching is known;short abbrevations when occasion of teaching is known (eg 'ha' forhanukah, 'rh' for `rosh hodesh', `kis' for kislev, etc.

One then needs to make a backup set of tapes.  I think it'snecessary to buy good-quality tapes (eg Sony); I've found problemswith some of the cheaper tapes sold in Israel.  Cost is under NIS6 each for SONY EF-90.  Backups should be made in real-time, not 
fast-dub, to maximize quality of the copy.  Don't stop the copyinguntil a side is completely copied.  You can listen to the teachingwhile the tape is running, and take notes; that should produce adefinitive inventory.

One then stores the original set in a secure location, to beconsulted only when the copies are inadequate.
One usually has at least 2 backup sets, since one backup set mustbe stored at a location physically separate from the originals.

The copies are then used for transcription.  