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Clashing with "prevailing notions": Pop culture depictions and archival realities

Archivists on the Issues is a forum for archivists to discuss the issues we are facing today. Today’s post comes from Burkely Hermann (me), Metadata Librarian for the National Security Archive and then, the I&A Blog Coordinator. There are spoilers here for all the series I cover in this post. This post does not represent the views or positions of the Issues & Advocacy committee or National…

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more creamthings

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Feeling like the ultimate nerd niche right now. I’m studying information science, specifically cataloguing, while in a library. Immersive experience. Like a 4D movie.

Self-portrait on Lined Notebook Paper, c. 2023

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Austrian National Library, Vienna

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"...the Great 78 Project, a community effort for the preservation, research and discovery of 78 rpm #records that are 70 to 120 years old...

Through the efforts of dedicated #librarians, #archivists and sound engineers, we have preserved hundreds of thousands of recordings that are stored on shellac resin, an obsolete and brittle medium. The resulting preserved recordings retain the scratch and pop sounds that are present in the analog artifacts; noise that modern remastering techniques remove...

These preservation recordings are used in #teaching and $research...

“When people want to listen to music they go to Spotify. When people want to study sound recordings as they were originally created, they go to libraries like the Internet Archive. Both are needed. There shouldn’t be conflict here.”

#InternetArchive

#Great78Project

https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/14/internet-archive-responds-to-recording-industry-lawsuit-targeting-obsolete-media/

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i got in AAAAAAAAAAA

here's to studying and living in the world of libraries, archives, and information science! (welp i have to learn coding/programming now)

(also this is me saying "i am dedicating this to myself, i hope i like it")

but damn i've waited for this moment for eight months now and i went through a lot for this, i really do hope i'll grow well here 🙏🌻

in DST terms, i can finally call myself a "Wickerbottom-in-training" 🤓 xD

let's goooo!

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the latest short

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ah yes, the three major personalities: Canadian 🇨🇦, fitness enthusiast 💪, and plant 🌱

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ah yee, a straight bridge and a gay bridge

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Fur Fighters (Windows, 2000, Bizarre Creations)

You can download it here, or download it pre-configured to run on modern versions of Windows here.

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A crescent moon over Stonehenge l Carl Evans

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this takes 'emergency evacuation' to a whole new level

Playing skylines again and a big tornado hit my city. All those little dots are people who were ironically waiting for a bus to take them to an emergency shelter.

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Saturn in near-infrared (Webb)/visible, ultraviolet (Hubble)

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faceless

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don’t bother them they’re reading