#PreserveYourLegacy- Photo Captions
If you are like me, I often look back and old photographs and wonder – now, who was that in the red hat that I was talking to a 1999 Memorial Day picnic?! I suggest using a soft pencil and writing on the back of the old photos to capture that information. For digital photos […]
#PreserveYourLegacy – Personal Archiving
What’s your story? Take a moment to think about all the great and amazing things you have done in the last 5 years. Now, in 20 years, will you remember what was the most significant event or achievement of 2015? Where was it? When did it happen? What was it? Why was it significant? How […]
Radio Haiti Archives to arrive at Duke University
News: “The Human Rights Archive at Duke University’s Rubenstein Library and the estate of broadcaster Jean Dominique have announced a partnership to preserve the broadcast archives of the journalist’s iconic Radio Haiti station. From the 1960s to 2002, Radio Haiti was that country’s first independent radio station, promoting democratic freedoms, speaking out against human rights […]
Rev. CT Vivian’s archives find a home
Emory University Acquires the Papers of a Civil Rights Hero The Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) at Emory University has acquired a collection of papers from the Rev. C.T. Vivian and his wife Octavia Geans Vivian, who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Mrs. Vivian, who died […]
Fire Alert – The perils of archives
In Buenos Aires a fire destroyed an archive of corporate and banking industry documents and took the life of nine first responders.ay. The fire at the Iron Mountain warehouse took hours to control and at least half of the sprawling building was ruined despite the efforts of at least 10 squads of firefighters. Read more […]