#endangeredarchives — Public Fediverse posts

ABC 15: Disabled Marine veteran forced to sell rare 1,000-letter WWII archive to save his family. “A disabled Marine Corps veteran who spent more than a decade preserving a rare collection of over 1,000 World War II letters says he now has no choice but to sell it. Joseph ‘Joe’ Alosi, 100% service-connected disabled, says mounting medical bills, the loss of his home, and family crises have left […]

Municipal Dreams: A Good Home Needed Urgently for One of the Most Significant Libraries of Housing and Planning in the Country. “The trustees of the Octavia Hill Birthplace Museum are disposing of its Harry Simpson Memorial Library in September, next month. The collection comprises the largest discrete library dedicated to housing and planning. The museum is located in Wisbech in the north of […]

Museums Association: National Library of Wales launches Culture and Climate Cymru resource. “The National Library of Wales has launched Culture and Climate Cymru, a new website and networking platform to help Wales’s culture and heritage sector respond to the climate crisis.”

Fast Company: AI crawlers from Meta and Alibaba almost destroyed a volunteer-run LGBT history archive. “…the LGBT History Project… recently passed 50 million views since its launch in 2011 and has been archived by the British Library for posterity. But an onslaught of AI bots seeking to scrape its content nearly took it offline, bringing the site to a crawl while also making it more […]

UC Santa Barbara: Preserving Historic Aerial Photos to Improve Public Health. “Turning a preservation crisis into innovation, the Library collaborated across campus to build a custom, in-house digitization lab for aerial photos. Staff from the Library’s Digital Library Development Department and SRC partnered with the UCSB Physics Machine Shop and UCSB Environmental Health & Safety to […]

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.”

Mint: How a few restorers are preserving and cementing Bollywood’s cinematic legacy. “Alam Ara is gone, so is Balidaan. With old film reels rapidly deteriorating and streaming platforms prioritizing the new over the old, India’s cinematic legacy has been left hanging in the balance. A few entities, however, are working hard to preserve the country’s rich film heritage.”

Hackaday: It’s Now Imperative That You Copy That Floppy. “Copy That Floppy! only briefly touches on the most ideal situation — that is, buying a USB floppy drive and making copies of the bog standard 3.5 inch disks you might come across. It then moves right on into more advanced topics, such as interfacing with less common drive types, how to safely clean floppies, and the use of advanced […]

New Orleans Museum of Art: “Preparing Your Photos for Hurricane Season” Guide Now Available. “Nayla Maaruf, Conservator of Photographs and Works of Art on Paper at NOMA, developed a guide for protecting important family photographs ahead of hurricane season. This guide is available now as a free PDF for you to print and download.” Quick and useful.

NBC Bay Area: San Francisco woman gets photographer’s old number. It changes both their lives. “[Wernher] Krutein, 72, has spent more than six decades traveling the world with a camera, documenting everything from people and architecture to insects and everyday objects. While his work spans continents, some of his most famous photographs were taken closer to home in San Francisco…. Starting […]

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 […]

Hawaii Public Radio: State’s largest seed bank loses federal funding for online database project. “The Lyon Arboretum’s seed conservation lab was awarded a $250,000 federal grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services three years ago to digitize its collection of rare Hawaiian seeds. In early April, researchers learned the grant had been terminated. That came after staff from […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/10/hawaii-public-radio-states-largest-seed-bank-loses-federal-funding-for-online-database-project/

ZSL: One year ahead of our 200th anniversary, we’re asking for help uncovering the contents of mystery film reels hidden in our archive.. “Our archivists have been trawling through storage rooms to dig out artefacts to mark 200 years since Sir Stamford Raffles founded the organisation but among books and old uniforms, the staff discovered over 200 film reels. These reels may provide an […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/01/zsl-one-year-ahead-of-our-200th-anniversary-were-asking-for-help-uncovering-the-contents-of-mystery-film-reels-hidden-in-our-archive/