ARSC Conference Travel Grants
posted December 8, 2010
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections, an American nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and study of sound recordings in all genres of music and speech, is accepting applications until December 10 2010 for ARSC Conference Travel Grants to be awarded in 2011. Recipients are awarded free registration for the ARSC Annual Conference and for
Found in the Archives on NPR
posted December 8, 2010
Found in the Archives, a new monthly feature on NPR's online The Picture Show, features memorable newsreel, government film, collection of photographs, cartoons or maps unearthed in archives and private collections.
Archive Coordinator Wanted
posted December 8, 2010
StoryCorps, an independent nonprofit that records, shares, and preserves life stories of Americans that are preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, is hiring a full-time archive coordinator for its department of recording and archive in Brooklyn, NY. The appointee will work with StoryCorps’ community-outreach department to work with existing and
Preservation Training Workshops and Webinars
posted December 8, 2010
The Northeast Document Conservation Center has announced its latest Preservation Training Workshops and Webinars for January-June 2011. In response to staff shortages and dwindling travel budgets, the roster includes an expanded offering of webinars. The webinars are two hours long and begin at 2pm Eastern US time. In-person workshops are full-day programs and generally are
The Projectionist is Dead, Almost
posted December 6, 2010
The projectionist is dead; long live the projectionist.
Digging the Jazz Icons from TV Archives
posted December 2, 2010
Some of the greatest filmed recordings of jazz might have sat collecting dust for decades, or forever, had it not been for the curiosity and dedication of one company and its Jazz Icons series. Since 2006, the American company, Reelin’ in the Years Productions, has issued four sets, each of seven DVDs, presenting top-flight live-recording
Digging the Jazz Icons from TV Archives
posted December 2, 2010
Some of the greatest filmed recordings of jazz might have sat collecting dust for decades, or forever, had it not been for the curiosity and dedication of one company and its Jazz Icons series. Since 2006, the American company, Reelin’ in the Years Productions, has found footage in the vaults of television stations and networks, most in Europe.
Rick Prelinger’s Lost Landscapes of San Francisco
posted November 28, 2010
The New York Times, via the San Francisco Bay Guardian, has this feature article today about renowned archivist Rick Prelinger’s annual showcase of films and other memorabilia of old San Francisco. The Library of Congress acquired most of Prelinger’s archive a celebrated collection of “ephemeral film” — industrial, educational, amateur and other film and video
Career Prospects for Archivists
posted November 28, 2010
Every archivist in creation must have seen this, by now. But perhaps some non-archivists among our readers will share the archivists’ mirth.
DigCCurr Professional Institute
posted November 22, 2010
Curation Practices for the Digital Object Lifecycle May 15-20, 2011 & January 4-6, 2012 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Institute consists of one five-day session in May 2011 and a two-day follow-up session and a day-long symposium in January 2012. Each day of the summer session will include lectures, discussion and hands-on