(Ed. note: This post comes to us from Phil Michel, Digital Conversion Coordinator for the Prints & Photographs Division, and one of the authors of the new book Baseball Americana.)
While the baseball season winds down and the excitement of another World Series chase begins, we’re celebrating the national pastime with a new book, Baseball Americana: …
Archive for the ‘Preservation’ Category (7 posts)
Interactivity with one’s television or computer is normal, today. But there was a time–in a day when talking back to the tube would mark you as a bit odd–when families in the United States gathered to interact with their television receivers in a big way:
They sang along with Mitch.
Between 1961 and 1965, many Americans young …
Posted in: Audiovisual, Collections, Music, Preservation, Video
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You know how some of the best jobs are the ones where you learn something new every day? I definitely have one of those.
I was watching a new episode of History Detectives last night on PBS (one of the few shows to which I am hopelessly addicted). Tukufu Zuberi did a segment about a letter …
Posted in: Collections, Curators, History, Manuscripts, Preservation
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The Library of Congress has released the 25 recordings selected this year to be preserved for all time as part of the National Recording Registry. They range from the old and classical (violinist Jascha Heifetz’ recordings for Victor Records early in the last century) to more recent rock (The Who, singing “My Generation”) and …
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“May Day!” is a well-known distress call. But “MayDay” is also a project to help prevent distress of another kind: Archives, libraries, museums and historic preservation organizations have set aside May 1 to participate in MayDay, an initiative to protect cultural heritage from disasters.
For our part, the Library last year contributed a “mutual assistance” charter …
Posted in: Collections, Libraries, Preservation, science
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