Saving the audio-visual legacy of American academic research… Start the triage.
posted April 3, 2015
It's looking unlikely that more than a small percentage of the deteriorating audio-visual legacy of American academic research is going to be saved. Colleges, universities, and research institutions may provide a good test case of how the challenges of sifting and salvation could play out. Triage seems likely to be the order of the day.
The War Films of Indiana
posted June 8, 2014
Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive has launched a digital, online repository of propaganda films from World War II. “WWII Propaganda Films and IU:Â Audiovisual Production, Circulation, and Education in the 1940s”, whose opening has been timed to commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy, focuses on the university’s use of mass