The mission of the Magnetic Media Crisis Committee (MMCC) is to support the archival community working to preserve audio and video magnetic media materials. The MMCC provides a collaborative space for knowledge-sharing, resource collection, project planning, advocacy, research, and development in order to promote awareness and develop concrete tools and strategies to cope with the growing crisis faced by magnetic media collections and the impacts of “degralescence.”

One of the original motivations for forming the MMCC was to create a space for sharing tacit knowledge—or what we like to call “anec-data” (a.k.a. anecdotal data). This kind of knowledge is rarely standardized, and there is often no consensus around the workflows that emerge from it. Although advances in science and engineering made audiovisual technology possible, much of the preservation practices surrounding it are shaped by personal experience, trial and error, collection materials, institutional priorities, available equipment, and resource constraints.

The MMCC Tape Bake Cookbook emerges from conversations about how degralescence has impacted current tape baking practices and necessitated changes to tape baking workflows as tapes continue to age. In an attempt to capture how the archival community it working now, this Cookbook will include:

• Compilation of over 50 recipes from more than 30 contributors
• Tape baking bibliography
• Glossary of terms
• Buyers guides
• Remediation essentials
• Tape stock data
• Summary of recipe procedures (statistics on recipes increasing temperature, baking longer, differences between audiotape and videotape baking, etc.)
• Anecdotes and stories
• And more…!!!

HOW TO GET THE MMCC TAPE BAKE COOKBOOK
(hint .. Pre-Order)

By pre-ordering the MMCC’s Tape Baking Cookbook you are helping to preserve magnetic media and support the work of AV archivists, preservationists and technicians.

Physical copies of the cookbook will be printed by Oddities Prints in the Fall and shipped out by the end of the year. The print run will be a limited edition. All cookbooks will be/include:

• Spiral bound
• Unique risograph prints
• Full color
• Original illustrations by Sydney Kysar

Pricing per Cookbook (for orders within the US):

• $35 for individual preorder
• $50 for institutional preorder
• For preorders of multiple copies the quantity must be specified during check out. To order more than 2 copies enter your total in “Other” (ex. For 3 institutional copies you would enter $150). All totals will equal a multiple of 35 or 50.

If you are outside the US contact (batoth@gmail.com) to get a price quote.

Just a heads up: If you place an order using Zeffy, make sure to select “Other” in the dropdown menu where it asks if you would like to “Help keep Zeffy free for AMIA,” so you are not charged an additional fee upon checkout (see screenshot attached). This is an automatic feature that Zeffy does not allow to be disabled. ( ｡ •̀ ᴖ •́ ｡)