It's out.
Stranger Things

PR's Tumblrdome
almost home

Kiana Khansmith
Sweet Seals For You, Always
$LAYYYTER

izzy's playlists!
Monterey Bay Aquarium


â

Discoholic đŞŠ
hello vonnie
I'd rather be in outer space đ¸
2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year

JVL
cherry valley forever
Misplaced Lens Cap
Show & Tell
art blog(derogatory)
Three Goblin Art

seen from Malaysia

seen from United States

seen from Argentina
seen from United Kingdom
seen from United States

seen from T1

seen from Malaysia

seen from Singapore

seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Netherlands

seen from Italy
seen from Peru

seen from United States
seen from Argentina

seen from Malaysia

seen from Germany

seen from United States
seen from Australia

seen from United States
@pixels-per-inch
It's out.

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch ⢠No registration required ⢠HD streaming
Iâm feeling very much like this cat today. I just want off.Â
Questions with Colleagues: Jennifer Marciello, Archivist & Oral History Coordinator
This past month, the Archives division at the JFK Library welcomed six volunteer library science graduate students as part of Preservation Week. We sat down with Archivist & Oral History Coordinator Jennifer Marciello to talk about their work and what they discovered.
How did Preservation Week come about?
In the Archives Division here at the Library, we have a Preservation Subcommittee whose focus is to identify and document any preservation concerns in our historic collections and come up with plans to address them. In doing this, we noticed that there were some very sizable collections with issues that needed to be addressed, but were too large for any one staff member to take on.
This is where the idea for Preservation Week came from. Instead of one staff member devoting weeks, months or, in some cases, years to one project, we devised a program that would get archival staff and interns involved in working on a specified project for one week out of each semester â three times a year â with the goal of completing the preservation tasks. This program has a dual benefit of allowing interns the opportunity to work and collaborate on a larger shared project, while at the same time completing necessary preservation tasks that do not normally fit into current workflows.
This time, along with some of our archival staff and paid interns, we had the help of Alternative Spring Break volunteers, which is a program that NARA (National Archives and Record Administration) coordinates to provide students with an opportunity to work at a NARA facility. This year, our volunteers were from the Library and Information Science Graduate Programs at Simmons College in Boston, and at Wayne State University in Detroit.
What was the collection you worked on for this Preservation Week?
For this Preservation Week, we worked on the John F. Kennedy Condolence Mail Collection. This is the mail received by the White House and Mrs. Kennedy after President Kennedyâs assassination, and reflects the world-wide reaction to the death of President Kennedy. Previously, it had been minimally processed, which meant that many boxes were still inaccessible to researchers, and there were some significant preservation issues that needed to be addressed.
How large is the collection?
When we started, the collection was roughly 200 cubic feet. This past Preservation Week, we were able to reorganize 120 boxes of mail (60 cubic feet) â specifically the letters D through P. Since we began the program as a whole, weâve reorganized and made accessible over 160 boxes (80 cubic feet of material) â the letters A through P. We have about two more rounds of Preservation Week to finish out the alphabet. By the Fall, weâre hoping to have all of the domestic letters in the collection â letters sent from the US â sorted, alphabetized, preserved and accessible to researchers.
When you were sorting the letters, did you come across anything surprising or especially notable?
I think the takeaway from the project for many of the volunteers who worked with it was the overall outpouring of grief as well as the personal nature of many of the letters, people relating personal stories, offering prayers, aid or asking for help. The majority of the writers discussed their love of the President, and the sadness and grief that they as American citizens felt. Many of the volunteers who worked on this project mentioned that they wouldnât think of writing to the President or First Lady in this capacity, or feel as personally connected to a politician or political family in this day and age.
Whatâs the importance of processing this collection?
Over the years, weâve found that most of the requests we get to access this collection are from individuals looking for the letters that either they sent or that their family members sent to Mrs. Kennedy. The collection was originally sorted by type â for example, letters with Mass cards, or poems, or drawings, or written by children. We found that with the reference requests we were getting, most people remembered they wrote a letter, but they didnât remember specifically if they sent a mass card, or wrote a poem, etc. So by reorganizing the collection alphabetically by last name of the individual, Library staff can easily search through a few boxes instead of 200 cubic feet of material. Itâs a huge accomplishment and will be of immense help in helping the public find their letters!
Cosmetic sponges (polyurethane) have almost completely replaced rubber dry cleaning sponges (such as Gonzo) in my dry surface cleaning tool box; Thanks to Barb Lemmen from CCAHA for turning me on to these!
I used to cut up the large rubber sponges, but these are small (and less abrasive than the other sponges), so I can use them as-is

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch ⢠No registration required ⢠HD streaming
This incredibly rare volume is Fantasmagoriana, the book Mary Shelley was reading when she conceived of Frankenstein. The copy in the Rare Book Collection is distinctive: bound in at the end is a series of additional gothic short stories in manuscript.
Learn more at the Chapel Hill Rare Book Blog, and see this rare volume in person at our Recent Acquisitions Evening on March 22.
In the archives we strongly believe in accurate labeling, behold the tip of our âproblemsâ pile. ⢠⢠⢠#archives #label #fromthearchives #archivesofinstagram #todolist #problems #whenyouworkinanarchive (at UMass Dartmouth Library Services)
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0grFcCXJwdk)
Do you hate leather paring as much as I do? Then youâll love the Scharffix.Â
Also, this video really should be subtitled:Â âSchmedt After Darkâ, because of the music.Â
Today I digitized:
The Electric Lunch - Waffles at All HoursÂ
Kickinâ it old school
Itâs always a good time working with our extensive Milwaukee Journal Stations film collection, and this time we decided to, well, film some of the process.Â
Here is a gif of what the reel looks like as it is being fed through our Steenbeck machine (ironically recorded with a smartphone. Yay technology!)
And of course, we here at UWM are firm believers of âBe Kind, Rewind,â so here is a gif of that process as well! Much of our film content has been digitized and can be viewed here. Content that has not been digitized may be viewed in the archives by appointment.Â

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch ⢠No registration required ⢠HD streaming
We recently received a transfer of some pretty nasty county records, and in the spirit of starting the new year off right, we are tackling the challenge. Unfortunately, these records have both moldâŚ
Spent most of my life living in a cassette paradise.
#todayinthelab Iâm all alone in here, and free to hog up all the space I need to make housings for oversize maps using 4x8 foot board. #weregonnaneedabiggerbox #ilikebigboxes
Congratulations to Nobel Prize in Literature Laureate Bob Dylan!
Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Entertainment: closeup view of vocalists Joan Baez and Bob Dylan.], 8/28/1963
Series: Miscellaneous Subjects, Staff and Stringer Photographs, 1961 - 1974. Record Group 306: Records of the U.S. Information Agency, 1900 - 2003
This morning it was announced that the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to musician and songwriter Bob Dylan âfor having created new poetic expressions within the great American song traditionâ. He is pictured here with fellow musician Joan Baez at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Archives arenât just about paper! We preserve and provide access to records created in a variety of media. This awesome poster and accompanying website created by the UTSA Libraries Special Collections is a handy reference guide to the most common types of digital storage media found in archives. Raise your hand if you remember zip drives⌠Anyone?Â

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch ⢠No registration required ⢠HD streaming
Whoâs ready for the West Indian Day Parade?! In anticipation of this weekendâs festivities, weâve been looking at the Museumâs long history of exhibiting and celebrating the arts of the Caribbean. In 1978 the museum put on âby far the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of Haitian Art to be presented in the United States.â The exhibition featured 160 paintings and sculptures that depicted the vibrant kaleidoscope of Haitian life, the countryâs rich flora and fauna, historical events, as well as Voodoo and Christian themes.
Especially rare for this period in time, the exhibition featured videos that were shot on location in Haiti. Filming began in 1975 when a group of Brooklyn Museum representatives went to Haiti to document the art and artists working at that time. The videos were produced by Gail Pellet, an independent producer, and are available on her phenomenal website. Displayed in the exhibition galleries the videos gave an introduction to âHaitian History, Life and Art,â âRa-Ra, a Haitian festival,â and interviews with 13 artists, four of which can be seen online (Jasmin Joseph, Prefete Duffaut , Gerard Valcin, and Serge Jolimeau). The Brooklyn Museum Archives contains over 100 raw, unedited video tapes of Haitian art and life in the 1970s. Translation from Kreyòl ayisyen to english was done by Brooklyn locals, Lionel Legros, a high school teacher, and Mama Lola, a Voodoo Priestess.
Not just an exhibition, the museum held many special events. There was a Banbòch, a festival for New York Haitian Folk Arts. A four day long conference on the Haitian cultural impact on the Caribbean World was held during the exhibition. They also had four separate days of storytelling, poetry readings, Haitian film screenings, and folk music performances.
The guest curator, Ute Stebich, was a Haitian national. She concluded the exhibition catalogue by saying, âAlthough many critical voices have been heard recently saying that Haitian art has stagnated, the opposite is in fact true.â We can testify to that fact as Brooklynâs Haitian community prepares for this weekendâs Parade!
Posted by J.E. Molly Seegers Photo by Brooke Baldeschwiler
Dot Cleaning
.DS_Store & AppleDouble files
It takes a village of tools to keep these hidden files from screwing up my AIPs. Itâs working so far. http://pixelcog.com/blog/2016/disable-ds_store-in-el-capitan/
#digitalpreservation