It’s Bike to Work Day!
ASSOCIATE COUNTY COURT JUDGE FRED BRUNS ON HIS DAILY BIKE RIDE TO THE SEWARD COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 05/1972
How often do you bike to work?
Reblogged from Today's Document
The Morgue Lives!
It is a cramped basement annex, stacked high with metal filing cabinets, full of three-fourths of a million pounds of old newspaper clippings and photos, going back 160 years.
It’s simply called “the morgue.”
To get here, a reporter must leave the shiny glass tower that is the 40th Street headquarters of the New York Times, walk a half-block down the street, and descend three levels below the sidewalk. There, in a nondescript tower, she will emerge from a dirty elevator, walk past a janitor’s closet, then past a giant, rusted pump contraption with running water, and finally reach a pair of metal doors. There are glue traps with belly-up cockroaches in the corner.
Reblogged from NPR
Monday, April 25, 2011
Broken Glass Plate Negatives: Storage and Imaging
April 24th-30th is National Preservation Week and May 1st is MayDay! Both events are created and hosted by archives and librarian entities in order to raise awareness for the care and emergency preparedness required for collections.
According to the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) website:
“ALA encourages libraries and other institutions to use Preservation Week to connect our communities through events, activities, and resources that highlight what we can do, individually and together, to preserve our personal and shared collections. Last year, over 65 events took place nationwide. View the 2010 Preservation Week Events in the U.S. in Google Maps. ALA would like to thank the founders, partners, and sponsors of Preservation Week for their generous support.”
Make sure to check out the Society of American Archivists and the ALCTS’s website for more details on how to participate and view links to helpful hints and tips that you can use for your archives, professional or personal!
Today, the Freer|Sackler Archives is participating by raising awareness for broken glass plate negatives, and to point you to resources on how you can properly store and image these gems.
Below, first photograph is a broken glass plate negative, set with dividers to hold all the shards in their proper place to prevent further damage or loss of image. The second photograph is the broken glass plate negative scanned in-house with hardly a trace of all the broken fragment lines. This set helps to illustrate that although a glass plate negative may seem broken beyond repair, you can still scan a beautiful image from it with patience and tender loving care.
