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Libraries and archives have dealt with threats for centuries, but the growth of digital networks has created new hazards.
Troy Haupt owns the only known recording of the broadcast, but the N.F.L. doesn’t want to buy the tapes or let him sell them to outside parties.
Sam Brylawski, Maya Lerman, Robin Pike, Kathlin Smith, editors May 2015. 240 pp. $30 (print version) ISBN 978-1-932326-50-5 CLIR pub 164 PDF Download of Report >> Commissioned for and sponsored by the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress. Copublished by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, the Council on Library and Information Resources, Read More
The original recordings of the first humans landing on the moon 40 years ago were erased and re-used, but newly restored copies of the original broadcast look even better, NASA officials said on Thursday.
Digital collection of 6,000 cylinder records from 1895-1920s with downloadable and streaming audio held by the Department of Special Collection, University of California, Santa Barbara.
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The following is a guest post by Karen Cariani, AAPB Project Director and Director WGBH Media Library and Archive, Alan Gevinson, AAPB Project Director and Special Assistant to the Packard Campus Chief, and Casey Davis, Project Manager, American Archive of Public Broadcasting, WGBH Educational Foundation. The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) Project Team at […]
A basement flood on Saturday sent water cascading over the file cabinets, shelves and storage boxes in which The Times keeps its historical photos.
The University of Iowa is home to almost a century of fandom history. Its library’s special collections house everything from 1920s "dime novel" reviews to T-shirts that were auctioned off in...
Even schlocky, straight-to-video horror and exploitation movies have historical value.
We are pleased to announce the release of AVCC, an open-source web application for the rapid inventory of physical film, video, and audio materials. Developed with funding from the Library of Congress’ National Recording Preservation Board – in addition to funding support from the Metropolitan New York Library Resource Council and New York State Documentary Heritage Program for previous versions of the tool – AVCC provides a series of inventory templates and quantitative reports that promote simple and fast documentation and analysis of collections of audiovisual materials.
The library’s 320,000 pieces are in dire need of space, a massive reorganization, and a complete inventory, the report found.
Post by Laura Schnitker, University of Maryland, College Park On March 26, 1971, an up-and-coming folk singer named Don McLean sat down for an interview a...
Sound is not permanent, and much of the recorded recent history of humanity is currently disintegrating. Robert Barry reports from the British Library Sound Archive and Internet Archive to find out what's being done to preserve these audio records, and explains what you can do to help
It ain't all out there, on the Internet or otherwise. An ILL librarian tells it like it is.