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Archive-It Partner News, April 2023

Archive-It

Learn from Michael Fleming and Marcie Farwell about the inception of these collections and the growing focus on sustainability here on the Archive-It blog. Learn more about their transition plan, how Archive-It factors in, and initial thoughts in Tyng-Ruey Chuang’s post on the Archive-It blog.

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Interview With Mark Myers on the Texas Digital Archive

The Texas Record

Devices used by Governor Rick Perry to create electronic records [1] This is the first in a two-part series exploring the Texas Digital Archive (TDA) with Electronic Records Specialist Mark Myers of the Archives and Information Services (ARIS) division at TSLAC. Thus was born the Texas Digital Archive.

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ELAR at SOAS to create new online archive to safeguard the world’s disappearing languages

Preservica

Preservica, market leaders in active digital preservation, has announced the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) , part of SOAS University of London , will use its cloud-hosted digital preservation and discovery platform to safeguard and increase access to their extensive multimedia collection of endangered languages.

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Sustainable lessons for design

CILIP

Connecting town and gown through the library To Celebrate Green Libraries week, we take a look back at an article first published in Information Professional in June 2023. Wright & Wright Architects have worked on a number of major library, archive and gallery projects, with a focus on sustainable design.

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Space and Beyond: Locating NASA Photographs Using Online Indexes

Unwritten Record

Local Identifier: 255-G-61-MR3-61; National Archives Identifier: 17409778. However, online photographic indexes on the Access to Archival Databases (AAD) can help find those hard-to-locate NASA photographs. . 255-CC: Color Photograph Files, 1965 – 2002. If the identifier number has an “H,” it will likely be in this series.

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Film Preservation 101: Is Nitrate Film Really Dangerous?

Unwritten Record

Nitrate film is a material we don’t often encounter at the National Archives for obvious reasons. When we do come across a reel in a new accession or a preservation request from one of the presidential libraries, I can tell you we’re not overly concerned that the film will burst into flames as we wind through it.

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Black History Month: Celebrating Black Authors

Archives Blogs

Therefore, it is our pleasure to highlight some influential black authors (whose works we have in the stacks at Florida State University Special Collections and Archives). Source: United States Library of Congress. In Special Collections: “Five Poems” (2002) ( Rare- oversize PS3563.O8749 Maya Angelou. Born: April 4, 1928.