Optical media is a catch-all term used to describe those shiny, prismatic discs that we all know and love: CDs, DVDs, Blu-Ray, and to a lesser extent, MiniDiscs and LaserDiscs. Most of the optical media in the world is commercially produced, but for a long
By Weatherly Stephan, Head, Archival Collections Management, and Nicholas Martin, Librarian for Fales Archival Collections and Reference Services We’re excited to share a project we finished this year that was a first for us in the Special Collections, and one that we hope will serve
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
In spring 1993, riot grrrl bands Bikini Kill and Huggy Bear, accompanied by the filmmaker Lucy Thane, embarked on a tour of the United Kingdom. Bikini Kill vocalist Kathleen Hanna set the tone when she opened a show at the University of Sheffield by asking:
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
Today’s post was written by Lou Di Gennaro, Special Collections Conservator in the Barbara Goldsmith Book & Paper Conservation Laboratory at Bobst Library Much has already been written about the Liber Chronicarum better known to English speakers as the Nuremberg Chronicle. A simple Google search
By Anna Gurton-Wachter, Archives Assistant, Fales Library & Special Collections There was a lot to take in at this year’s Society of American Archivists conference in New Orleans. It was my first time attending and I wanted to hear it all. I heard about loads
Today’s entry is written by Brent Phillips, Fales Media Archivist, and Timothy Woitas, an Archives Assistant at the Fales Library & Special Collections. After the recent repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, the Fales Library preserves rare LGBT video documenting its genesis. Back in
Last week I was fortunate to be able to attend the conference Women in the Archives: Organizing Knowledge, cosponsored by Brown’s Women Writers Project and the Pembroke Center’s Feminist Theory Archives. This is my favorite kind of archives conference: one that brings together archivists with