This post is written by Curator for Tamiment-Wagner Collections Shannon O’Neill and Michael Nash Research Scholar/Archivist Michael Koncewicz. For nearly 20 years, Beyond the Pale was the only Jewish radio program that focused on providing a left perspective on local, national, and international news. Hosted
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
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
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
One of the most recent initiatives in the Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation department is the creation of the Archives Preservation Program. The program supports the long term maintenance of archival materials held by the archival repositories in Bobst Library. The three collecting repositories—Fales, Tamiment
To kick off Archives Week 2010, we have a post introducing our Media Preservation Unit in the Preservation and Conservation Department. Being a university research library, the collections housed at Bobst are in constant use, which wears away the material. It is the role of
Downtown New York artist Christopher D’Arcangelo (1955-79) created artworks that simultaneously highlight and frustrate the commoditization of both his artistic production and his artistic practice. During his lifetime, the artist carefully documented his ephemeral works in a variety of ways, demonstrating a deep concern with
Today’s post comes from Jennifer Pondo, who is currently working as a Project Archivist at the Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive. Jennifer received her BA in history with minors in Music history and Art history from West Chester University of Pennsylvania and a Masters