One of the most recent initiatives in the Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation department is the creation of the Archives Preservation Program. The program supports the long term maintenance of archival materials held by the archival repositories in Bobst Library. The three collecting repositories—Fales, Tamiment
To kick off Archives Week 2010, we have a post introducing our Media Preservation Unit in the Preservation and Conservation Department. Being a university research library, the collections housed at Bobst are in constant use, which wears away the material. It is the role of
This week’s post comes from Siobhan Hagan, a graduate of NYU’s MIAP program, who is now working as an assistant in the Media Unit of the BG Preservation & Conservation Department. As the Fales finding aid for the Andrea Callard Papers states on their website,
Downtown New York artist Christopher D’Arcangelo (1955-79) created artworks that simultaneously highlight and frustrate the commoditization of both his artistic production and his artistic practice. During his lifetime, the artist carefully documented his ephemeral works in a variety of ways, demonstrating a deep concern with
This blog post will detail the experience of two graduate students in the NYU Archives and Public History program who worked on pre-processing the Sylvester Manor Papers in the Conservation Laboratory in the Barbara Goldsmith Preservation & Conservation Department. The Sylvester Manor Papers were processed
NYU is set to host the 7th Orphan Film Symposium from April 7-10 at the School of Visual Arts’ newly revamped cinema in Chelsea (333 W. 23rd Street). The biennial symposium–known by those in-the-know simply as, “Orphans”–brings together a broad spectrum of scholars, filmmakers, preservationists,
As the Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department’s first Preservation Archivist, I feel the need to explain the origins of this position as it relates to Bobst, our main campus library, its archival repositories, and the broader changes occurring in the field of information science