Description: A secret trash archive in New York City's Sanitation Department? [via Atlas Obscura]MoMA released 65,000 works of early 20th century modernists online. [via Open Culture]NOT for lunchtime browsing; the Mütter museum's new website gives you a close look at diseased bodies and "terrifying surgical instruments." [via Mental Floss]The Library of Congress is focusing on preserving
Description: The Hirshhorn is making Yayoi Kusama's blockbuster show accessible with virtual reality. [via Washington Post]Rare sighting of the endangered marbled cat via infrared camera trap! [via National Geographic]Mark your calendars: April 17-21 is Endangered Data Week. [via Digital Library Federation]We contributed to the Nationa Digital Stewardship Alliance's 2016 Web Archiving
Description: Improved physical housing is one step you can take to help extend the life of your audiovisual media. Take a look at the new housing for lacquer transcription disc recordings from The World is Yours radio programs.
Description: For the past month, I have been immersed in the complexity that is the world of digital archiving as an intern for the Smithsonian Institution Archives. As a digital preservation intern, I have discovered aspects about archiving that I would have never considered previously, such as the processes required to document accessions, recording information for accessibility and