AES Historical Committee Report
for the Board of Governors Meeting at the
119th Convention, New York, 2005-10-11

The Historical Committee will hold an open meeting during this Convention, on Sunday, Oct 9, at 10...12, in Javits Center, Room 2 D02. It will be chaired by HC Chair Jay McKnight, who will attend the Governors' meeting to answer any questions you may have about the HC activities. You are all welcome to attend the Historical Committee meeting. We will discuss the activities reported below.

The presently active AES Historical Committee projects [as numbered in our Guidelines] are as follows:

5 [Organize and maintain an archive relating to the history of the Audio Engineering Society itself.]

8 [Encourage each Local Section and each Convention Committee to organize an appropriate session on the history of audio  engineering, or a display on an appropriate historical subject. When requested, provide information to help them to do so.]

9 [Create and operate two AES HC email reflectors: a Steering Committee Reflector for discussions of purely administrative matters of the Committee; and a general Historical Reflector for discussions of actual historical matters.]
10 [Create an AES HC web site on which to publish the information compiled in the following sections.] 11 [Create a directory of museums, libraries, archives, and private collections that contain historic audio equipment or documents about the history of audio engineering.]
13 [Record oral histories (sound only, sound with video, and/or sound with still photographs) of important figures in the  history of audio engineering.] 14  [Collect, write, publish, and otherwise disseminate accurate historical information about the field of audio engineering.]
     
Jay McKnight, Chair
AES Historical Committee

Draft report written on  2005-09-29, --29 15,