#endangeredarchives — Public Fediverse posts

BBC: Charity buys archive of Third Eye centre and CCA. “The charity that manages Glasgow’s museum and library collections has bought the archive of two organisations that played a key role in the city’s contemporary art scene. The collections of the Third Eye Centre and the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), containing material gathered over more than 50 years, are now owned by Glasgow Life.”

BBC: Charity buys archive of Third Eye centre and CCA. “The charity that manages Glasgow’s museum and library collections has bought the archive of two organisations that played a key role in the city’s contemporary art scene. The collections of the Third Eye Centre and the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), containing material gathered over more than 50 years, are now owned by Glasgow Life.”

BBC: Charity buys archive of Third Eye centre and CCA. “The charity that manages Glasgow’s museum and library collections has bought the archive of two organisations that played a key role in the city’s contemporary art scene. The collections of the Third Eye Centre and the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), containing material gathered over more than 50 years, are now owned by Glasgow Life.”

BBC: Charity buys archive of Third Eye centre and CCA. “The charity that manages Glasgow’s museum and library collections has bought the archive of two organisations that played a key role in the city’s contemporary art scene. The collections of the Third Eye Centre and the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), containing material gathered over more than 50 years, are now owned by Glasgow Life.”

BBC: Charity buys archive of Third Eye centre and CCA. “The charity that manages Glasgow’s museum and library collections has bought the archive of two organisations that played a key role in the city’s contemporary art scene. The collections of the Third Eye Centre and the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), containing material gathered over more than 50 years, are now owned by Glasgow Life.”

NM.news: We’re working to save the Roswell Daily Record, an American journalism institution. Here’s how.. “The newspaper that told the world about a ‘flying saucer’ crash near Roswell in 1947 nearly became history itself this week — but just two days after announcing it would shut down, it has found a new owner and will keep publishing. The Roswell Daily Record’s ownership announced […]

NM.news: We’re working to save the Roswell Daily Record, an American journalism institution. Here’s how.. “The newspaper that told the world about a ‘flying saucer’ crash near Roswell in 1947 nearly became history itself this week — but just two days after announcing it would shut down, it has found a new owner and will keep publishing. The Roswell Daily Record’s ownership announced […]

NM.news: We’re working to save the Roswell Daily Record, an American journalism institution. Here’s how.. “The newspaper that told the world about a ‘flying saucer’ crash near Roswell in 1947 nearly became history itself this week — but just two days after announcing it would shut down, it has found a new owner and will keep publishing. The Roswell Daily Record’s ownership announced […]

NM.news: We’re working to save the Roswell Daily Record, an American journalism institution. Here’s how.. “The newspaper that told the world about a ‘flying saucer’ crash near Roswell in 1947 nearly became history itself this week — but just two days after announcing it would shut down, it has found a new owner and will keep publishing. The Roswell Daily Record’s ownership announced […]

NM.news: We’re working to save the Roswell Daily Record, an American journalism institution. Here’s how.. “The newspaper that told the world about a ‘flying saucer’ crash near Roswell in 1947 nearly became history itself this week — but just two days after announcing it would shut down, it has found a new owner and will keep publishing. The Roswell Daily Record’s ownership announced […]

DanQ: Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs. “This week, GlitchyZorua brought to my attention the Ibiblio Icon Browser, a collection of many thousands of GIF icons curated in the 1990s by Gioacchino La Vecchia. Glitchy’s goal was to archive a copy of all of the icons, which was turning out to be… challenging.”

Harvard Gazette: Time has not been kind to VHS. “After winning the battle for dominance with the Betamax cassette, the VHS ushered in an era of amateur filmmaking, home movie collections, and video store rentals. Recognizing the value of the new format, Harvard curators quickly began amassing materials on VHS. Though no single tally of Harvard’s VHS holdings exists, a 2018 count of […]

University of New Mexico: Bringing hundreds of New Mexico Spanish archives online. “Center for Southwest Research (CSWR) archivist Samuel Sisneros and Center for Regional Studies fellow María Feliza Monta-Jameson are at the helm of the New Mexico Spanish Language Archival Recovery Project. They are working to preserve archival collections of audio and video interviews of native New Mexico […]

University of New Mexico: Bringing hundreds of New Mexico Spanish archives online. “Center for Southwest Research (CSWR) archivist Samuel Sisneros and Center for Regional Studies fellow María Feliza Monta-Jameson are at the helm of the New Mexico Spanish Language Archival Recovery Project. They are working to preserve archival collections of audio and video interviews of native New Mexico […]

University of New Mexico: Bringing hundreds of New Mexico Spanish archives online. “Center for Southwest Research (CSWR) archivist Samuel Sisneros and Center for Regional Studies fellow María Feliza Monta-Jameson are at the helm of the New Mexico Spanish Language Archival Recovery Project. They are working to preserve archival collections of audio and video interviews of native New Mexico […]

University of New Mexico: Bringing hundreds of New Mexico Spanish archives online. “Center for Southwest Research (CSWR) archivist Samuel Sisneros and Center for Regional Studies fellow María Feliza Monta-Jameson are at the helm of the New Mexico Spanish Language Archival Recovery Project. They are working to preserve archival collections of audio and video interviews of native New Mexico […]

University of New Mexico: Bringing hundreds of New Mexico Spanish archives online. “Center for Southwest Research (CSWR) archivist Samuel Sisneros and Center for Regional Studies fellow María Feliza Monta-Jameson are at the helm of the New Mexico Spanish Language Archival Recovery Project. They are working to preserve archival collections of audio and video interviews of native New Mexico […]

How-To Geek: Your Old Audio Cassette Collection Is Destroying Itself. “So, for some inexplicable reason, cassette tape collecting is now also a thing alongside vinyl. This time there aren’t even any arguments about analog sound quality, it just seems to be a vibe but, hey, you do you! However, if you’re building a cassette collection, or you have one from before, you should know that this form […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/27/how-to-geek-your-old-audio-cassette-collection-is-destroying-itself/

ABS-CBN: Resurrecting nostalgia: Archiving to preserve history before it’s too late. “In the age of streaming, it’s hard to imagine not being able to watch a film again after its theatrical run, or a show after it has aired on television. But almost half a century ago, this was the reality faced by then-high school student Dann Garcia. He observed at the time the dearth in the available […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/13/resurrecting-nostalgia-archiving-to-preserve-history-before-its-too-late-abs-cbn/

INFO 653 Knowledge Organization: Recovering Lost Media. “The Lost Media Wiki is a grassroots community lead project to track down and archive pieces of media (video, audio, video games, art, or printed) that have been lost or been made inaccessible to the public. Beginning in 2012 on its previous website, the wikia has grown into a massive cataloging initiative with a community of over 17,000 […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/24/info-653-knowledge-organization-recovering-lost-media/