February 20, 2006



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Michael Terrazas, Editor
michael.terrazas@emory.edu

Katherine Baust Lukens,
Staff Writer
katherine.lukens@emory.edu

Christi Gray, Designer
christi.gray@emory.edu

Jon Rou, Photography Director
jrou@emory.edu

Robyn Mohr, Intern

Diya Chaudhuri, Editorial Assistant

Jessica Gearing, Editorial Assistant


 


Jenny Yusin is working this semester to transform 1,200 hours of material stored on digital audio tapes (DATs) to electronic computer files, part of an effort to save interviews with legendary musicians that were housed in a New Orleans French Quarter building and threatened by Hurricane Katrina. Yusin, a graduate student on fellowship at Woodruff Library, must listen to each hour and ensure that the recording process from tape to digital file is working properly. “I cannot leave, and I cannot pause the tape,” she says. “It’s kind of intimidating.”

PHOTO CREDIT: KAY HINTON

Emory team working to
save N.O. music memories

Hurricane Katrina’s trail of devastation in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast last year is well known.

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