This post was written by Umrat Khan, while she was a Graduate Student Assistant at NYU Special Collections. She graduated from NYU’s Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement Program in 2024. Collection materials in foreign languages tend to be overlooked due to language barriers, limited access,
This post is by Cameron Andersen, a Graduate Student Assistant at NYU Special Collections. She is in her final semester of a dual degree program with Long Island University, completing both an MA in Religious Studies at NYU and an MLIS in Archives and Records
This piece is written by Umrat Khan, a Graduate Student Assistant at NYU Special Collections. She is currently a Master’s Student at NYU’s Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement Program, and is conducting research on Islamic material culture through corporeal, lived and spatial perspectives. She is
This post is written by Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) graduate student, Alyosha Nowlin. The Media Preservation Unit at New York University Libraries is currently working to preserve over 800 audio recordings of Beyond the Pale: The Progressive Jewish Radio Hour. Beyond the Pale
Today’s post is authored by Nicole Greenhouse, Web Archivist in Archival Collections Management. NYU Special Collections, specifically the Tamiment Library, has been web archiving since 2007. As part of the NYU Votes campaign, I thought it would be fun to highlight some of our holdings
Today’s post is authored by Gioia Stevens, Librarian for Specialized Cataloging at NYU Libraries. Her previous experiments with cookbook metadata include Early American Cookbooks, a digital project including full-text searching, analysis, and visualization of 1450 cookbooks published in the United States between 1800 and 1920.
![Article titled “Sono shi ga ima toikakeru mono wa [What that death asks us now]” by Seki Kōzō, from an unidentified periodical, 1983. From the Karl Ichiro Akiya Papers (TAM.236).](https://wp.nyu.edu/specialcollections/files/2020/03/folder-26-ishigaki-Page-107-600x400.jpg)
Today’s post is authored by Melissa Redwood, a doctoral candidate focusing on Asian American history and the transnational study of race and gender in the 20th century at Yale University and a Cold War Dissertation Fellow at the Tamiment Library. The Tamiment Library is home
I’m just back from a one-day conference at Princeton University titled Big Data: Public Policy and the Exploding Digital Corpus. It was a stimulating (and exhausting) day, and I thought I’d try and write down a few of my preliminary impressions. The conference was sponsored
There are a growing number of articles within the professional literature that address the inclusion of archival projects within undergraduate curricula (Doris J. Malkmus provides a useful overview in her article “Primary Source Research and the Undergraduate: A Transforming Landscape,” found in Journal of Archival
Those of you who follow this blog’s Twitter account (we’re @thebacktablenyu) will have seen the link to an article from Emory University’s magazine that was tweeted last week about the acquisition of Salman Rushdie’s papers and the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library’s efforts to