While we were digitizing the Sylveser Manor nitrate negative collection, we came across two negatives that were stuck together. Thanks to some help from our colleagues in Preservation, we were able to un-stick them. We’re glad we did, as they…
New Instagram Feed
DLTS’s Content Creation Group (CCG) has started an Instagram feed, featuring interesting images that they encounter during the digitization process. Check it out at www.instagram.com/nyuccg
AUC Camera
The camera made its way safely to Cairo, and the team at the American University in Cairo set it up, just as they had been taught by DLTS. They sent us a lovely document describing the process, with pictures to…
Moloney Sheet Music Now Available
The Tamiment Library and Labor Archives have made sheet music from the Mick Moloney Irish-American Music and Popular Culture Collection available online. These songs are part of a collection that documents the Irish and Irish-American image in American popular culture during the…
Fancy camera gymnastics
For the Arabic Collections Online project, we have been working on getting the American University of Beirut (AUB) on board. They will be digitizing a large number of Arabic-language texts and sending the digital files to us in New York.…
Digitization Efficiencies
At DLTS, we are always working on making our processes more efficient. On the digitization side, much of our work requires painstaking efforts that only skilled photographers can perform. Some of it, however, is tedious and repetitive, and a…
Down the Rabbit Hole
A long time ago, DLTS digitized a book for Fales Library as part of an exhibition they were working on. The book was Soni͡a v tsarstvi͡e diva, the first edition of Alice in Wonderland in Russian. We recently re-shot the book to make…
Collecting Photography from the Arab World
Akkasah, the Center for Digital Photography at NYUAD, has been collecting photography from the Arab world. Under DLTS’s direction, they are digitizing these images, which DLTS will then preserve and publish through finding aids. To read about Akkasah, please see…
Indian Ocean site launched
We are pleased to announce the launch of the Indian Ocean Digital Collection, a site that gathers together a diverse group of materials from the region. This site is a collaboration of several departments: site vision and content curation from…
Videos from the Armenian struggle
NYU Abu Dhabi has acquired archival footage from Bars Media Documentary Film Studio, chronicling the struggles in the hotspots of the former Soviet Union. Bars Media (“Bars” means “simple” or “clear”), one of the first independent film companies in Armenia, specializes…