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
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.
Today’s post is authored by Nic Caldwell, a second-year graduate student in the NYU/LIU Dual Degree program, pursuing a Masters in English Literature and an MLIS. Caldwell recently completed an ARL/SAA Mosaic Internship in Archival Collections Management. As a Mosaic Intern, I have spent the
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
This post is authored by Klavier J. Wang, PhD, who recently finished an internship in the audiovisual archives of NYU Special Collections. A scholar of Hong Kong cultural history, Wang is currently a graduate student in NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program. Being
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
![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
Today’s post is authored by Marissa Ajamian Grossman, a student in the NYU/LIU dual degree program and graduate student assistant in Archival Collections Management. As archivists, we are unable to escape our past. The past and the archival documents previous archivists have kept surround us
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