This post was written by Grecia Márquez García, a short term research fellow in Archival Collections Management who provided enhanced description, translations, and transcriptions of the Collection on Enslavement in Cuba, Fales MSS 569. See our previous post about ACM’s work to redescribe MSS 569
Public Access to Queer Media In 1993, queer folks were starting to gain small tastes of representation in mainstream media. The first kiss between gay men was broadcast on UK TV’s Eastenders in 1989, as was the first lesbian kiss on NBC’s L.A. Law in
This post is written by Aki Snyder, Processing Archivist in Archival Collections Management. John Ferrone (1924 – 2016) was an American book editor working for Dell Publishing and Harcourt, Brace, & World (later Harcourt Brace Jovanovich). Ferrone retired from Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1990, but
This post is written by Lauren Stark, Processing Archivist in Archival Collections Management. Many radical groups are formed with noble intent, whether it is to overcome an injustice or bring attention to a lesser-known cause. Despite these intentions, these groups often splinter or separate. There
This post is written by Lizzy Zarate, the Web Archives Student Assistant for Archival Collections Management. She is an MA student at NYU in the Archives & Public History Program. May 1st marks the start of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. While
This post is written by Maddie DeLaere, an Archival Collections Management Graduate Student Worker. She is completing the NYU/LIU Dual Degree program, pursuing a Masters in Food Studies alongside an MLIS. Sometimes, when a new collection is processed – materials sifted, organized, and removed to
This post is written by Weatherly Stephan, Head of Archival Collections Management, and Rachel Searcy, Accessioning Archivist In 2019, Archival Collections Management received the Collection on Enslavement in Cuba for accessioning into the Fales Library. The collection consists of documents concerning slavery in Spanish-colonized Cuba
This entry is written by Camila Aguirre, a graduate student in NYU’s Archives and Public History Program. As part of her capstone project, Camila rehoused and amended the description of Mark Bloch PAN Archive’s Series I: Mail Art and Correspondence. Saving the Mail: The Rehousing
Today’s post is authored by Nicole Greenhouse, Web Archivist in Archival Collections Management. This week marks the 15th anniversary of NYU Libraries’ first crawls of websites for our web archives! To date, NYU Special Collections has collected approximately 20 TBs of web content over more
This post is written by Shannon O’Neill, Curator for Tamiment-Wagner Collections, and Rachel Searcy, Accessioning Archivist. Language evolves over time. Think about words or phrases that you once utilized that are no longer popular, or have since been critiqued as being harmful or offensive. You