- We’re usually dealing with paper, photos, and whiteboards over here at SIA, but the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum gives a nice overview of the hard work that goes into preserving their planes.
- I received an email the other day from Lee Price at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts letting me know about their blog, “Preserving a Family Collection.” There are lots of great tips there on preserving letters, family papers, and photos, as well as some of the more philosophical concerns surrounding archives. Thanks for the email, Lee!
- A tongue-in-cheek ode to the "unknown cataloguer" over at the American Libraries magazine [via Jennifer Wright, SIA].
- In perfect time for the upcoming holidays. Our own Nora Lockshin and Marguerite Roby tell the Around the Mall blog how best to preserve a family album or scrapbook.
- NPR interviews Richard Oram of UT Austin’s Harry Ransom Center about to how deal with archiving digital materials. First, assemble a museum of obsolete technology . . .
- Looks really fun: the Muybridgizer iPhone app from the Tate Britain museum (free during the duration of their Muybridge photo exhibition) allows you to transform a moving image into vintage-style freeze-frame pictures.
- We here at SIA are familiar with preserving old recordings, but these folks are making them. Musicologists dipped into pages of Sumerian musical notations to recreate this ancient music. Listen below [via Neatorama]:
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