This post is authored by Emily Rose Clayton, a second-year graduate student in the NYU Archives and Public History program and graduate student assistant in the University Archives. I grew up fifteen miles from the middle of nowhere, and moved to New York City. For
This post is authored by Ruodi Duan, a 2019-2020 Agnese N. Haury Dissertation Fellow at NYU and Ph.D. candidate in international history at Harvard University. The James E. Jackson and Esther Cooper Jackson Papers at the Tamiment Library are an immense, multimedia collection that provide unique
This post is authored by curators Karen Finley and Marvin J. Taylor. The NYU Libraries has installed panels from the Names Project AIDS Quilt as the final event of Stonewall@50–NYU’s year-long commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which launched the modern queer
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
Gay Rally, 1977; Richard Berkowitz Papers; MSS 421; 421.0019, Fales Library & Special Collections, New York University. If you haven’t guessed from the rainbow flags that proudly flap around the city, this weekend is the NYC Pride Parade, a celebration of the LGBTQI+ community
Today’s post is authored by NYU Library’s Web Archivist Nicole Greenhouse. Amy Vo, the Cold War Collections Project Archivist, reached out to me the other day asking me about an archived website that is part of a collection that she is working on. Her inquiry
Today’s post is authored by Lingyu Wang, M.A. student in Media, Culture, and Communications, NYU Steinhardt, Class of 2020 and Scholarly Communications Assistant, NYU Libraries While people in Times Square were celebrating the New Year with fireworks and cheers, something else worth celebrating was happening
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,
My name is Yvonne Rivas and I am a sophomore economics major participating in the Association of Research Libraries Fellowship for Digital and Inclusive Excellence with the Tamiment Library. As part of my internship, I have been working on the New York City Labor History
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