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Millions of objects were lost when fire gutted Brazil’s National Museum. But the meaning of such an institution is greater than the sum of its parts.
Untold numbers of important television programs have been lost to time.
Irreplaceable audio and video recordings from the 20th century are languishing in university collections, deteriorating. Can they be saved?
My Job post from LCM about audio engineer Bryan Hoffa.
A lot of broadcast-TV preservation efforts rely on over-the-air capture, which is a much-degraded, lossy signal compared to the original.
In early February 2017, Don Manildi, Curator of the International Piano Archives at Maryland (IPAM), wrote to Eric Cartier: “IPAM recently received four 15ips (inches per second) 10.5 inch re…
Will Prentice is trying to save the British Library's archive of 6.5 million sound recordings – before it's lost forever to decay and dead hardware
This third post in our series on an evolving approach to social media focuses on telling preservation stories.
What's really happening to the book stock of academic libraries? Also musings on "vendors."
Studios invested heavily in magnetic-tape storage for film archiving but now struggle to keep up with the technology
Includes a list of video media considered "obsolete" under Section 108.
Madmen, King Lear, TV dynamite, Kurt Cobain, and the 8-track mystery.