ABSTRACT
A dedicated sound librarian developing and maintaining the sound library helps. The sound librarian is the gatekeeper, shepherd of the flock, audio accountant, charged with the responsibility of organizing and protecting the limitless frontier of sound bites. The sound librarian must manage and take care of hundreds of thousands of sounds, as well as keep track of the continually evolving technology by which the library is archived, cataloged, accessed, and protected. Supervising sound editors know they must work quickly and be extremely flexible in custom recording and gathering precise sound cues from the sound effects library to mount their film or audio project. The first and foremost starting point for precise identification and accessibility of an audio cue is carefully assigning a "part number" to each sound cue entered in the library. Light passes through the optical soundtrack image of the film and strikes a photoelectric cell, causing fluctuations that accurately reproduce the analog audio signal for playback.
