#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.”

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 […]

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 […]

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.”

Shropshire Council: Sound archive to be safeguarded thanks to university funding. “The collections include local radio archives, oral history interviews, and music recordings. The recordings frequently capture the memories and experiences of people and communities who are underrepresented in the archival record. They include memories of local industries, rural life, the natural world, and the […]

Ars Technica: BioWare’s Anthem will soon be completely unplayable. “We’ll admit that we weren’t paying enough attention to the state of Anthem—BioWare’s troubled 2019 jetpack-powered open-world shooter—to notice EA’s July announcement that it was planning to shut down the game’s servers. But with that planned server shutdown now just a week away, we thought it was worth alerting […]