Marcos Sueiro Bal

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Marcos Sueiro Bal (Alan Barnett)

Marcos Sueiro Bal is the Archives Manager at New York Public Radio.

Marcos is Co-Chair of the Technical Committee at the Association of Recorded Sound Collections, and was part of the Collection Management Task Force that drafted the Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Plan in 2012. In 2011 he co-translated the definitive text on audio preservation, Guidelines for the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects. He is a member of the Standards Committee of the Audio Engineering Society, and director of the Education Committee of the Archivists Roundtable of Metropolitan New York. He mastered and restored 2011’s Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy, and was nominated for a Grammy for his work on 2008’s Polk Miller and His Old South Quartette. He has worked at the Alan Lomax Archives, Columbia University Libraries (where he developed AVDb, a preservation prioritization tool), Masterdisk mastering studios, and Emory University. He teaches Audio Preservation at Long Island University's Palmer School of Library Science.