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First of all it’s a great privilege to be
here with IMLS.

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I’m like a fan of, huge fan of libraries
and museums, both; and I see StoryCorps had

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a very long and deep relationship with both
museums and libraries and now with IMLS as

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well.

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StoryCorps has only been around for eight
years.

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And I think that the technological innovations
leading up to the creation of StoryCorps may

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be more dramatic than what’s happened since
StoryCorps came into existence.

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And, you know a lot of people - people sometimes
refer to StoryCorps like the anti-Twitter

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because it’s kind of two people having a
human conversation face to face.

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But if it wasn’t for technology StoryCorps
couldn’t happen.

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I mean, I’m not a tech person, but we have
whatever trillo-bytes, whatever bytes of data

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associated with these 40,000 interviews we’ve
done; about 40,000 hours of digital audio

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we have done.

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First digital audio collection I believe to
go into the Library of Congress.

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That kind of, the archiving we do - a public
archive that hopefully will exist at some

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point in the not too distant future.

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The dissemination of the stories over the
Internet, over Facebook that millions of people

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watch our animations on YouTube, if not for
the advances in digital technology StoryCorps

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couldn’t be.

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Especially on kind of the Medidata and all
that sort of, the archiving of this stuff,

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it would just be physically impossible to
do without the advances in technology.

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The big transition had to do with switching
to digital audio, and editing on computers

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and sending files over the Internet and that
kind of stuff; and there actually has been

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progress, I mean when we started StoryCorps
we literally burnt to CDs for our participants

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and then did the, and I’m not even sure
when we transferred to hard drives, I guess

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we did do transfers to hard drives; but now
of course, while I describe StoryCorps as

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you walk away with a CD and another CD goes
to the Library of Congress, there is actually

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a digital file that goes to the Library of
Congress.

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So there are advances that have happened and
obviously you know storage is much cheaper

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than it was years ago.

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There are advances, but those advances haven’t
really changed the hardened substance of what

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we do.

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My life is essentially doing StoryCorps and
taking care of my kids.

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My museum and library experience is largely
bringing my kids to the library, and you go

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to libraries and museums, other than the StoryCorps
interaction, but clearly, I mean I think that,

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you know libraries and museums seem to be
doing a very intrepid smart job of integrating

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technology everywhere possible and not in
a way that, in my experience, it isn’t kind

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of an overkill, just kind of trying to jump
to the front of the technological line, but

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kind of watching to see what the environment
is and then picking smart kind of interactive

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projects and then integrating them into libraries,
so I’ve been very impressed.

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Everything from the way that, from integrating
digital materials into collections to the

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way, I already said I did something at the
Philadelphia Public Library, free library

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a couple of days ago and the digital signage
that they had outside, the way that they were

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marketing stuff, I thought was very smart.
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