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Although we have thoughtfully developed standards, best practices, and models for access and preservation, we are often left without the tools to achieve such lofty goals in an ideal fashion. Where the proper tools exist, they are often out of reach for our modest means. Being the improvisers that we are, audio archivists and librarians often employ what Andy Kolovos has called ÒThe Best-You-Can-With-What-You-Have Practices.Ó One of these is using consumer media technology as part of our access and preservation strategies, and there are lessons to be learned from its strengths as well as its weaknesses. The iPod of the title has become infamous for a short product lifespan, low reliability, undesirable DRM schemes, fast upgrade cycles and poor support from the manufacturer. It is also an excellent example of a self-contained device for storage, organization, retrieval and playback with design features that make usage simple to the point of obviousness. This presentation will look at how small institutions (and under-funded archives within big institutions) have adopted consumer technologies for better or for worse. Certain of these technologies Ð like the portable digital audio player Ð will be analyzed and mined for ideas about how we can harness their strengths while avoiding their shortcomings in an archival setting.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eLacking the clout of a mass market or a lucrative niche market, sound archives and libraries face something of a visibility challenge when it comes to attracting technologies that meet our needs and fit our budgets. Although we have thoughtfully developed standards, best practices, and models for access and preservation, we are often left without the tools to achieve such lofty goals in an ideal fashion. Where the proper tools exist, they are often out of reach for our modest means. Being the improvisers that we are, audio archivists and librarians often employ what Andy Kolovos has called \u0026Ograve;The Best-You-Can-With-What-You-Have Practices.\u0026Oacute; One of these is using consumer media technology as part of our access and preservation strategies, and there are lessons to be learned from its strengths as well as its weaknesses. The iPod of the title has become infamous for a short product lifespan, low reliability, undesirable DRM schemes, fast upgrade cycles and poor support from the manufacturer. It is also an excellent example of a self-contained device for storage, organization, retrieval and playback with design features that make usage simple to the point of obviousness. This presentation will look at how small institutions (and under-funded archives within big institutions) have adopted consumer technologies for better or for worse. 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