All India Radio Digitisation of Audio Library and Archival Activities: A Case Study at Local Radio Station

摘要

New technologies such as digital and multimedia have taken over the traditional structure and functioning of All India Radio and Doordarshan (Prasar Bharati), the public service broadcaster of India. These technologies have brought revolutionary changes in all spheres of broadcasting, including production, multi-platform delivery systems, acquisition, storage, library and broadcast information management. The new technology introduced digitisation of old records in the library for archival and preservation purpose for the primary use to broadcasters, media historians, cultural and research scholars and general public for easy accessing. This paper deals with the digitisation activities, for archival purpose, of Nizamabad local radio station's audio library, where important audio recordings related to diversified countryside educational, informational, entertainment data available in LP (Long Play), EP (Extended Play) and audio tapes, since its inception in the year 1990 to till the date of computerisation of production activities in the year 2004.