The Barbara Goldsmith Preservation & Conservation Department, working in collaboration with NYU Libraries Archival Collections Management and Special Collections, recently digitized and have made available unique videos from the Estela and Ernesto Bravo Film and Video Collection (TAM.616). With funding from the Council on Library
In Fall 2007, the Media Preservation Unit received nine cans of 35mm film elements from the George Amberg and Robert Gessner Papers (MC.199), a collection housed in the New York University Archives. In total, the cans contained 82 bundles of film, each comprised of short
Over the past two years, we have been gradually digitizing the Nelson Sullivan Video Collection (Fales, MSS.357) in the Media Preservation Unit. The tapes are a treasure trove of documentation of LGBTQ (and other) life in downtown Manhattan (and elsewhere) in the 1980s. Tomorrow marks
Posted in observance of Preservation Week, today’s post is written by Kate Philipson, Media Preservation Assistant in the Barbara Goldsmith Preservation, with input from ARL/SAA Mosaic Fellow Jasmine Sykes-Kunk. Archival inspection of historic film is often like detective work. When there is minimal information, background,
Today’s post is written by Michael Grant, Media Preservation Associate in the Barbara Goldsmith Preservation & Conservation Department. Recently, we have been working on the preservation of the Bob Holman Audio/Video Poetry Collection (MSS128) in the Media Preservation Unit. Holman is a spoken word poet and arts
This is the third in a three-part series on NYU’s athletic program and holdings within University Archives. For additional information about materials that document the athletics program, please visit http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/arch/athletics.htm These posts were a collaborative effort by staff in the Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation
This is the second in a three-part series on NYU’s athletic program and holdings within University Archives. For additional information about materials that document the athletics program, please visit http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/arch/athletics.htm. These posts were a collaborative effort by staff in the Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation
This is the first in a three-part series on NYU’s athletic program and holdings within University Archives. For additional information about materials that document the athletics program, please visit http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/arch/athletics.htm These posts were a collaborative effort by staff in the Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation
Today’s post was written by Shannon Mulshine, graduate student assistant at NYU Libraries’ Barbara Goldsmith Book and Paper Conservation Laboratory and second-year graduate student at the NYU Institute of Fine Arts Conservation Center. The book pictured above is a Hebrew text, The Response of
Today’s post was written by Claire Kenny, Assistant Research Scholar in the Barbara Goldsmith Book and Paper Conservation Laboratory. As a paper conservator I spend a lot of time removing tape. The use of tape is ubiquitous; it is a fast, easy way to mend