Day: March 25, 2014

Front facade of Houghton Library

SHIFTING BRILLIANCIES: Digitizing Harvard’s Heaney Recordings

“You can go backwards as well as forwards.” –Seamus Heaney When I first began the task of creating metadata for our recently-digitized Seamus Heaney recordings (part of the Woodberry Poetry Room’s initiative to digitize its entire collection of rare and at-risk Heaney cassettes), I anticipated a fairly straightforward trajectory. I’d sit down, don the headphones,…