The Center holds some legacy digital collections that do not meet the current standards for digitization. Prior to acquiring the digitization station and hiring an audio technician, Center staff did some preliminary digitization of analog tape using an external cassette tape deck connected to a computer. The sound was collected using a low end sound card to ram (Real Media Player) format in a process like the one that Washington State University Libraries used for their African-American Oral History collections (Bond, 2004). These early recordings were deemed important enough to place in the queue to be re-digitized according to the Center’s current standards. For practical purposes, an institution may choose to keep legacy digitized items even if they do not meet current standards because the cost to redigitize is high. For the Center the lessons learned with early experiments in digitization were important in shaping the future decisions to allocate more funds and staff to the digitization efforts in order to produce better quality sound.