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Last Friday, a CitiStorage records storage warehouse in Brooklyn caught fire. The facility housed tens of thousands of cubic feet of recor...

Last weekend, two facilities housing large quantities of records were affected by fire. Last Friday, the library of the Institute of Scienti...

Owing to the extensive damage that eastern New York State suffered as a result of the remnants of Hurricanes Irene and Lee and that New York...

On 29 October, Hurricane Sandy devastated eastern New Jersey and southeastern New York State. Dozens of people died, scores of homes and co...

In the wake of tropical storms Irene and Lee, I've done some research into how to salvage and recover data housed on flood-damaged elect...

Being in Albany is a little strange right now. Anyone who stays close to the city and its environs could be forgiven for thinking that noth...

I have a post in the works about 2011 Society of American Archivists annual meeting session 705, Theft Transparency in the Digital Age: Stak...

First page of the Flushing Remonstrance, a petition from the freeholders of Flushing and Jamaica, Long Island, to New Netherland Governor P...

As you know, on 12 January 2010, an earthquake wreaked havoc on Haiti. Approximately a quarter of a million people died, countless others s...

It's kind of surprising that the situation in Nashville hasn't gotten more attention: the city and surrounding communities are expe...

The first day of May means different things to different people. In Europe and the United Kingdom's former colonies of settlement, it...

In 2006-07, Saad Eskander, the Director of the Iraq National Library and Archive (INLA), kept a diary that the British Library posted onlin...

I somehow missed this Der Spiegel article , which was published last week and which highlights the monumental challenges that confront the ...

Those of us whose German is weak owe a debt of gratitude to Frank Schloeffel at Salon Jewish Studies , who is translating into English Klaus...

The news from Cologne is, in many respects, profoundly disheartening. Earlier today, recovery personnel found the body of one of the young ...

The building housing the Historic Archive of the City of Cologne ( Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln ) is now a pile of rubble. Fortunately...

News of Ike's impact on Gulf Coast cultural heritage institutions is just starting to come out, and some of the news is very bad. The S...