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.

CT Insider: Rare Lincoln documents lost in New London after historian drives off with folder on car roof. “It was shortly after 4 p.m., when the library closed, that everything went wrong for [Sameer] Somal. While moving video equipment out of the building, he placed the black folder containing the rare documents on the hood of his car, along with a book on Lincoln. Then, he drove off.”

Poynter: Opinion | A merger could put two of America’s most important news archives under one owner. “The proposed merger threatens to place CNN and CBS News, two of the most significant news libraries in America, under a single owner. The future preservation and accessibility of these archives are at risk if they are allowed to be merged under one private entity, as the Paramount-Warner […]

Internet Archive Blog: Keep the News in the Wayback Machine. “Fight for the Future has launched an open letter calling on major media organizations to work with the Internet Archive to ensure the news remains preserved and accessible in the Wayback Machine.”

#Africa #music #Nollywood #EndangeredArchives

'As I write this, thousands of original films from the golden age of Nollywood, and by extension, the isolated, uncompressed master mixes of the era’s greatest, weirdest soundtracks, are quite literally rotting away.'

https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/black-sky-thinking/nollywood-film-archive/

The Quietus: Rotting Tape and the Gentrification of African Pop: Why We Must Save the Nollywood Archive. “VHS magnetic tape is incredibly fragile and has a limited lifespan, especially when stacked haphazardly in the un-airconditioned corners of Lagos living rooms or the labyrinthine, corrugated-iron warehouses of Alaba International Market. As I write this, thousands of original films from the […]

The Guardian: Why data sleuths are archiving the Jeffrey Epstein files: ‘We want to provide some clarity’. “An increasing number of journalists, researchers and activists have applied technical analyses to the Epstein files that draw out information not readily available in the DoJ’s raw dumps of material. The latest is a searchable database of faces of individuals who appear in original […]

NiemanLab: More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism. “Our new analysis shows that more than 340 local news sites across the United States are now limiting the Internet Archive’s ability to access and preserve their stories. Many sites in our sample are owned by five of the seven largest local news publishers in the country: USA Today […]

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 […]

Digital History at University of Houston: Important update: Please read this announcement.. “After nearly 25 years of service to students and educators worldwide, Digital History will cease operation on May 31, 2026…. This resource has served millions of users, providing free, reliable content as an alternative to expensive textbooks. However, maintaining the site now requires extensive […]