Tag: Archives
A Video Archive of Western New York 1960s TV News Footage Now Available Online
From WBFO: Imagine watching an old television newscast from when you were a kid. Now, it’s a reality for Western New Yorkers. The first batch of archival news footage digitized by the Buffalo Broadcasters Association is available online. Local stories like the closing of Bethlehem Steel and the Attica uprising, as well as national stories […]
The First Library on a Celestial Body (30 Million Page Archive Being Sent to the Moon)
Two Reports. The First Library on a Celestial Body (via Archmisson.org) The Lunar Library represents the first in a series of lunar archives from the Arch Mission Foundation, designed to preserve the records of our civilization for up to billions of years. It is installed in the SpaceIL “Beresheet” lunar lander, scheduled to land on […]
E-Journals: NYU’s Fales Library Acquires Triple Canopy’s Archive
From Triple Canopy: Triple Canopy is pleased to announce the acquisition of its archive by New York University’s Fales Library & Special Collections. This novel initiative will guide the renowned library’s future efforts to archive the work of artists, writers, and organizations whose work exists primarily in—but cannot be reduced to—digital formats. A schedule of […]
More Archives Posts
Olympics: “IOC Preserves a Century of Olympics History”
From Agence France Presse (AFP): Sitting in a basement at the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) headquarters in Lausanne, some 33,000 hours of video, 500,000 pictures and 2,000 documents among other archives risked decay and being lost forever. But after a seven-year and 30 million euro ($33 million USD) conservation project involving experts from across the […]
Government Transparency: World Wide Web Foundation Releases 2nd Open Data Barometer Report
From the Report: A global movement to make government “open by default” picked up steam in 2013 when the G8 leaders signed an Open Data Charter – promising to make public sector data openly available, without charge and in re-useable formats. In 2014 the G20 largest industrial economies followed up by pledging to advance open […]
E-Rate Program Commits Over $450 Million In Funding For Broadband in Schools And Libraries
From the FCC: A record level of early financial support for broadband in schools and libraries has been approved by the E-rate program, the Federal Communications Commission’s program for supporting communications services in these institutions. Reflecting a dedicated effort by the FCC to get critical funding for broadband to schools and libraries as quickly as […]
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
Guggenheim Museum Receives Grant to Plan an E-Repository
From the Guggenheim Foundation: The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) recently awarded the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Archives a grant to begin work to establish an electronic records repository. Starting in early 2013, the 18-month project will develop a comprehensive plan to create and manage a repository of electronic records related to the […]
The Library of Congress and CLIR Release National Recording Preservation Plan
From a LC Announcement: The Library of Congress today unveiled “The Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Plan,” a blueprint for saving America’s recorded sound heritage for future generations. The congressionally mandated plan spells out 32 short- and long-term recommendations involving both the public and private sectors and covering infrastructure, preservation, access, education and policy […]
ADVERTISEMENT
Georgia Governor Sets Aside $4.3 Million For State Archives
From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Gov. Nathan Deal has taken the first step toward his pledge to keep the Georgia Archives open, setting aside $4.3 million for it in next year’s proposed budget. The proposal would also fund 10 positions to the Morrow institution, which lost five employees last fall to layoffs. Many more steps, however, […]
Canada: City of Montreal Archives Celebrates 100th Birthday
From The Montreal Gazette: The city of Montreal archives possess about four kilometres of historically significant records dating from as early as 1796. Among these are found vintage real estate evaluation rolls to the minutes of the very first council meeting held in 1833, at which Jacques Viger was selected as Montreal’s first mayor. The […]
