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Archives Don’t Matter
…But Archival Environments Do Admittedly, when I foreswore the word ‘archive’ I offered no realistic (or unrealistic) alternative. The great benefit (and the great detriment) of such philosophical arguments is that one…
Archiving Ephemera — A Mini Manifesto (Semifesto)
The lyrics for Talking Heads song “Love For Sale” were, according to David Byrne’s liner notes in Sand in the Vaseline, a not entirely successful attempt to write a love song…
Archivonomics
Interesting article in the New York Times this morning (interesting hmm-that-deserves-some-further-thought, not interesting well-think-of-a-thing-like-that-!) about the legal status of the personal papers belonging to FDR’s former personal secretary, Grace Tully (“Bankruptcy Complicates…
Are Archives Not Deaccessioning Enough?
At the Spring MARAC meeting during a panel on digital preservation, a presenter showed a slide of a Post-it note adhered to an inaccessible disc that said “Save in case of miracle.”…
Are The Aesthetics Of Decay And The Aesthetics Of Preservation Compatible?
If decay is a beautiful thing, why are we working so hard to preserve all this archival material? A facetious statement, perhaps, but an exaggeration that underscores the fact that…
Are We Prepared For The Presidential Library Of The (Near) Future?
One has to assume that a major distrust of the shift to digital reformatting and preservation is the feeling that we’re merely redoing work that will need to be redone…
Are You Celebrating World Day For Audiovisual Heritage 2011 Correctly
As we sit under the Heritage Eucalyptus Tree amongst our non-destructively opened and carefully unpacked and documented acid-free gift boxes, beaming with joy over finally getting that relapped 4-track 1/4″…
As It Was
Despite the presumed character of one in my profession, probably the only physical thing I collect (besides, at this point in my life, grey hairs) is stationary from hotels at…
Association For Recorded Sound Collections Releases AVPS Co-Ordinated Metadata Study
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections Technical Committee (ARSC TC) recently announced the release of their “Study of Embedded Metadata Support in Audio Recording Software: Summary of Findings and Conclusions”. AudioVisual Preservation…
Archives And Privacy In The Age Of Accessibility
A little over a year ago it was announced that one of my alma maters (hey, it takes a village to educate a fickle mind…) was acquiring the archive of artist Larry…
