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The Library’s reading room in Ashworth reopens after restoration
The 1926 mine office that houses the reading room reopens with 24 reader desks, six listening booths and four Fullfield carrels.
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ASHWORTH, Kan., Nov. 12, 2024 — The reading room of the Sense/Net Library reopened today after a two-year restoration of the 1926 mine office that houses it. The room has 24 reader desks, six listening booths for the binaural collections and four carrels with Fullfield playback for the first-person collections, and it can now bring material up from the deep store in about forty minutes.
The restoration kept the office’s pressed-tin ceiling and the scale on which the mine once weighed its salt, which now weighs the Library’s outgoing parcels.
Researchers may book a desk through the Library. Access to material in the deep store is by appointment.
About Sense/Net
Sense/Net makes first-person recordings. Founded in Los Angeles in 1988 by Maureen Vance and Gordon Pruitt, it records performances from the performer’s own position for Fullfield, its line of first-person titles, and keeps the Sense/Net Library, one of the largest collections of recorded performance in the world, in a former salt mine under Ashworth, Kansas. Sense/Net Holdings, Inc. is privately held.
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Lauren Pak, Sense/Net · press@sensenetstudios.com · +1 213 014 6688