KJHK Receives $15,000 Donation to Preserve Rare and Old Music Collection
Student-run radio station KJKJ will begin to digitize all of its music collection this semester after having received a $15,000 anonymous donation for the project in December of 2006.
KJHK is well-known for its collection of rare and older music, but recently some of their vinyl records and compact discs have been becoming too scratched to use. Sometimes the station must also deal with lost or stolen music.
"This will be a great way to preserve our music when the CDs or vinyl records get to old to use," said Nick Dormer, archiving director of KJHK and head of the digitization project. KJHK plans to use iTunes or a similar program to organize their music. They would like to use a program that would allow them to write reviews of the music.
"We are buying a 200 disk spindle to convert compact disks to digital form," said Dormer. KJHK is also in the process of buying hard drives to store the music.
Currently the project has ten volunteers that spend five hours each week converting the music. They have approximately 30,000 compact disks that they will convert to digital form by June of 2007. They plan to start converting the station's vinyl records after they finish with the compact disks.
"Some people are afraid the quality of sound will go down with the digital copies, but it is really just a backup plan," said Dormer. "We will continue to use the hard copies as long as we can, and this way we can run a show digitally if a DJ cannot make a show."
Music is a big part of the lives of KJHK DJs. "They are doing this so that they won't lose any of the music that is so important to the station," said Andy Green, a KJHK DJ.
"Eventually we would like to be able to record the shows we do with the new equipment we are buying," said Dormer. "It is a way to give back to the community." The shows would be accessible on the KJHK website at anytime.
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