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Looking Towards the Future: An Audiovisual Preservation Readiness Assessment
- Date: July 23, 2019
- Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives has been spending a lot of time looking at our audiovisual preservation practices. Check out the results from our recent assessment!
Here at the Smithsonian: Art Conservation
- Date: January 26, 2021
- Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
- Description: Check out these two newly-available clips from Here At The Smithsonian!
When Digital Print Met Water
- Date: March 26, 2020
- Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
- Description: What happens when your digital prints get wet and why is this important? Answers below!
Miscellaneous Adventures into Standard Forms at the Smithsonian
- Date: September 5, 2017
- Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
- Description: For the next installment of “Miscellaneous Adventures,” we’ve taken a dive into blank standardized forms once used at the Smithsonian, found in Record Unit 65, Smithsonian Institution Chief Clerk, Forms, Circulars, Announcements, 1846-1933, Box 14, Folder Miscellaneous Forms – Assorted. And these forms are certainly assorted! The contents range from memorandum forms to
Fitting Unusual Collections into Standard Boxes
- Date: April 23, 2019
- Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
- Description: In celebration of Preservation Week, we’ll take a look at a recently created custom housing for a fragile fabric-covered box found within Accession 18-009.
Stabilizing Lacquer Transcription Discs
- Date: October 18, 2018
- Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
- 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.
What a Groovy Idea! A Pan-Institutional Survey of Audiovisual Collections
- Date: April 21, 2016
- Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
- Description: In celebration of Preservation Week 2016, here’s a brief overview of surveys and their role in preservation, as well as a look into an audiovisual survey currently taking place right here at the Smithsonian.
Pennywise Preservation: Oversized Prints and Drawings
- Date: December 13, 2016
- Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
- Description: Providing suitable housing for collections can sometimes be cost-prohibitive. When the Archives received a large collection of oversized drawings, a cost-savings approach had to be employed while still achieving an appropriate housing strategy for long-term preservation.
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Quick Tips for Preserving Your Family’s Past
- Date: November 26, 2019
- Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
- Description: As the holiday season approaches, here are a few quick tips on some preservation strategies for your family’s treasures.
Wishing you a Trivial New Year!
- Date: January 4, 2018
- Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
- Description: Happy National Trivia Day! January 4th is the perfect day to break out all those endless bits of knowledge stored in your noggin and share them with others. As for the history of National Trivia Day, it's thought that the creation of the game Trivial Pursuit in 1979 sparked the beginning of our fascination with trivia, and everythinge else is history, as they say. To feed our
I.D. This! Solid Ink Inkjet Print
- Date: June 18, 2019
- Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
- Description: Material and process identification is the key to a robust preservation strategy!
Perplexing Panoramas: Taking Charge of Housing Oversized Collections
- Date: September 1, 2016
- Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
- Description: With the ongoing reorganization of the map cases at the Archives, collections containing panoramic photographs, drawings, and maps require unique housing that provides adequate support when storing and handling.