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November 19, 2023

BusinessWire: National Comedy Center to Preserve Don Rickles Archive

BusinessWire: National Comedy Center to Preserve Don Rickles Archive (PRESS RELEASE). “The National Comedy Center, the United States’ official cultural institution dedicated to the art form of comedy, announced today that it will be preserving an archival collection from Don Rickles’ estate, showcasing the late comedy legend’s six-decade career. The collection spans from the 1950s to 2000s, chronicling a storied life in comedy through rare photographs, correspondence, creative papers, and wardrobe—all of which will be preserved at the National Comedy Center.”

November 11, 2023

Keeping their stories alive: Black churches discuss archiving, historical preservation (Post and Courier)

Post and Courier: Keeping their stories alive: Black churches discuss archiving, historical preservation. “Lovely Mountain Baptist Church is just one of several Black churches in the Charleston area that doesn’t have a formal documentation system in place. This is why Minister Lisa Robinson and Minister Anna Montgomery… hosted a conference to help Black churches start the archival process. Nearly 20 church leaders and members heard from archivists and preservation experts about best practices for documenting a church’s history during the Nov. 4 virtual conference.”

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October 22, 2023

Doncaster Free Press: Mystery of 25-year-old crisps discovered in Doncaster archives with hidden note

Doncaster Free Press: Mystery of 25-year-old crisps discovered in Doncaster archives with hidden note. “Staff at City of Doncaster Archives made the strange find while sorting through piles of old documents and photos. And as they leafed through a stack of faded items, they found a perfectly flattened bag of Seabrook Cheese and Onion flavour crisps with a best before date of February 1998. Inside the 30g bag were the crushed remains of the crinkle cut crisps, produced by the Bradford-based snack manufacturer more than a quarter of a century ago. A note left with the bag, inside a sealed envelope said: ‘These crisps were left here in December 2009’ having been with their owner for ’15 turbulent years.’”

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October 3, 2023

Technical.ly: With its new archivist at the head, here’s how NARA is digitalizing America’s documents

Technical.ly: With its new archivist at the head, here’s how NARA is digitalizing America’s documents. “How do you turn a piece of onionskin paper into an online archive? Or a huge map? Or a piece of paper almost completely torn up? Or all of that combined, times a billion? A few months into her tenure, Colleen Shogan, the current Archivist of the United States, already has plenty on her plate. But it’s a little more complicated than just placing a document on a scanner.”

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September 30, 2023

UC Davis: Plug-in Electric Vehicles Archive to Be Housed at UC Davis Library

UC Davis: Plug-in Electric Vehicles Archive to Be Housed at UC Davis Library. “During National Drive Electric Week, the University of California, Davis, today (Sept. 27) announced that it has begun to build a Plug-in Electric Vehicles Archive. It will be housed at the UC Davis Library’s Archives and Special Collections with support from the UC Davis Electric Vehicle Research Center. The archive will focus on the decades-long story of how plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, or PHEVs — long seen as a science project — shifted from prototypes and modifications to mass production.”

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September 19, 2023

BBC: How will museums of tomorrow tell the Covid pandemic story?

BBC: How will museums of tomorrow tell the Covid pandemic story?. “Covid’s arrival in early 2020 threw organisations and businesses into turmoil. But while most workers grappled with furlough, social distancing and working from home, a small band of museum officers sensed history was in the making. This is one museum service’s story of trying to collect items in real-time to capture the pandemic story for future generations.”

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September 6, 2023

Library of Congress Blog: The Web Archiving Team Answers Questions About the Web Archives

Library of Congress Blog: The Web Archiving Team Answers Questions About the Web Archives. “Have you ever wondered what exactly is web archiving? How the Library select which websites to preserve? Or how you would find and search the web archives? The Web Archiving Team’s Senior Digital Collection Specialists gathered to answer these questions and more in a live webinar during the Preservation Directorate’s celebration of Preservation Week. If you missed it, we have good news– a video is now available to watch on the Library’s website, and you can also read a short summary of the presentation here.”

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August 27, 2023

Anime News Network: Manga Archive Organization Dedicated to Archiving Manga Materials Founded

Anime News Network: Manga Archive Organization Dedicated to Archiving Manga Materials Founded. “The Manga Archive Organization announced its founding on Monday. Formally founded on May 1, the organization aims to preserve and share manga creators’ original artwork and related materials, including published material such as magazines and compiled book volumes. Taku Ōishi, the curator of the Yokote Masuda Manga Museum, will be the organization’s board representative.”

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August 8, 2023

archive.today: On the trail of the mysterious guerrilla archivist of the Internet (Gyrovague)

Gyrovague: archive.today: On the trail of the mysterious guerrilla archivist of the Internet. “Do you like reading articles in publications like Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal or the Economist, but can’t afford to pay what can be hundreds of dollars a year in subscriptions? If so, odds are you’ve already stumbled on archive.today, which provides easy access to these and much more: just paste in the article link, and you’ll get back a snapshot of the page, full content included.”

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July 7, 2023

British Library UK Web Archive Blog: RESAW 2023 Conference Report from the UK Web Archive

British Library UK Web Archive Blog: RESAW 2023 Conference Report from the UK Web Archive. “2023 was the fifth RESAW conference. RESAW stands for Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Materials. It was established in 2012, aims to promote a collaborative European research infrastructure for the study of archived web materials and holds a conference every two years. The 2023 conference was held in Marseille from June 5-6 under the theme ‘Exploring the Archived Web During a Highly Transformative Age’.”

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June 29, 2023

Slate: The Delicate Race to Archive the Work of Murdered Journalists—Before It Disappears

Slate: The Delicate Race to Archive the Work of Murdered Journalists—Before It Disappears. “Many of the murdered journalists are not the hard-hitting investigative reporters you might have in mind, juggling whistleblowers and carefully pulling together sweeping exposés of corruption. Those reporters are targeted too, often via sophisticated methods like the spyware Pegasus—but in my research, I’ve found that most often the journalists who are murdered are those who worked locally and precariously: reporters who founded their own media outlets—blogs, websites, and Facebook pages—in which they posted about daily life in their towns.”

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May 16, 2023

Haaretz: Only 14% of Israeli State Archives Files Are Online, Even Though Most Have Been Scanned

Haaretz: Only 14% of Israeli State Archives Files Are Online, Even Though Most Have Been Scanned. “The Israel State Archives is short 685 employees to complete the opening of its documents to the public, State Archivist Ruti Abramovitz said Monday. The vast majority of documents in the State Archives, some 86 percent, are inaccessible to the public online despite most of them having been scanned.”

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May 8, 2023

NiemanLab: How archivists are working to capture not just tapes of old TV and radio but the experience of tuning in together

NiemanLab: How archivists are working to capture not just tapes of old TV and radio but the experience of tuning in together. “Even today, more Americans use standard AM/FM radio broadcasting than TikTok. At a time when most Americans get their news from local TV stations and broadcast television networks, and radio remains pervasive, it might seem frivolous to express concern about preserving technologies so deeply embedded in daily life. Yet a media evolution is occurring, as paid subscription video streaming and audio services climb in popularity, and fewer Americans are consistently tuning in to broadcast media.”

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April 20, 2023

The Conversation: Live art exists only while it is being performed, and then it disappears. How do we create an archive of the ephemeral?

The Conversation: Live art exists only while it is being performed, and then it disappears. How do we create an archive of the ephemeral?. “Live performance exists only in the moment it is being performed. Its ephemeral nature means it is transient and impermanent, and cannot be experienced again in precisely the same way. How do artists hold on to the works that they make? What of the invisible labour that is rarely acknowledged or named?”

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February 18, 2023

Minneapolis StarTribune: This young St. Paul archivist safeguards the stories of historic Rondo

Minneapolis StarTribune: This young St. Paul archivist safeguards the stories of historic Rondo. “The person in charge of preserving memories from St. Paul’s historic Rondo neighborhood is a 27-year-old Black woman who handles decades-old photos with white cotton gloves. In a room organized with shelves of black archival storage boxes, Kayla Jackson can be overheard talking to a sepia-toned heirloom, calling the relic in her hands ‘my friend.’”

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Library of Congress Blog: The Web Archiving Team Answers Questions About the Web Archives

British Library UK Web Archive Blog: RESAW 2023 Conference Report from the UK Web Archive

Slate: The Delicate Race to Archive the Work of Murdered Journalists—Before It Disappears

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