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Upscaling is crap. DO NOT use AI to upscale.
In an increasingly digital world, it is increasingly difficult to take care of the movies that exist on film
An interview with Professor and archival consultant, Snowden Becker about media preservation, archiving, and A/V's historical impact.
The Bloomington Public Library has started an effort to preserve and improve access to local historical documents in partnership with the McLean County Museum of History.
In 2020, our top blog post of the year was “What Our Experts Want You To Know About Digitization.” Archives staff basically explained why not everything in our collections is online and just how much work goes into the process of digitization. With so much great feedback from our colleagues in the field, we thought it would be great to ask our preservation team to answer some of our burning, often ignorant questions about their work just in time for Preservation Week. Which collections do they prioritize? Where do they even start when considering how to treat an object?
Open-reel tapes, soft-binder syndrome.
A look at where old films go when the screen goes dark and the people trying to resurrect them.
Baking at 130°F is the sweet spot to reverse "sticky shed syndrome."
Bimodoshka Annya Pucan was doing undergraduate research at the University of Western Ontario, when she discovered archival recordings of Robert Thompson - a medicine man born in 1876.
