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Main lobby, Cleveland Public Library, East 3rd Street and Superior Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, 2015-08-22. This is what a library should look...

Still playing catch-up re: the 2011 Best Practices Exchange (BPE). After the BPE ended, I spent a few days in Ohio with my parents, came b...

Yesterday, Der Spiegel and Lens , the visual and multimedia reporting blog of the New York Times , published a lengthy, unsettling, and tho...

Happy Monday. I'm not at the office today -- I worked on Saturday, so this is the second day of my "weekend" -- and I've ...

Archivists are accustomed to asserting that creating digital surrogates of paper records and analog recordings will increase access and faci...

Pavonia Arcs, by Robert Pfitzenmeier (2004), Newport, Jersey City, 29 October 2009. Along with Ricc Ferrante ( Smithsonian Institution Archi...

The Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Powerhouse , Jersey City, 30 October 2009. Built in 1906-1908, this beautiful Romanesque Revival structu...

Here's a tasty tidbit: Library Journal has a great overview of a recent Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Coalition for...

Texas Lottery drawing, as seen through the grate on the front door of the Texas Lottery Building, 611 East 6th Street, Austin, Texas, at ab...

Sorry for the light blogging as of late. Between work, helping to plan the 2009 Best Practices Exchange , and getting some stuff done aroun...

Union Station, Washington, DC, at around 3:00 PM today. The Library of Congress (LC) National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservati...

The 2009 New York Archives Conference wrapped up yesterday afternoon, and everyone in attendance seemed to have a great time. The first morn...

Flickr is an online photo sharing site that enables users to “tag” (i.e., provide descriptive and other information about) one’s images. I...

I wrote this post during a long layover at the Detroit Metro Airport on 21 April 2009, and finished around 8:35 PM, but simply wasn't p...

Today was the second day of the inaugural meeting of the Distributed Custodial Archival Preservation Environments group. We went over over ...

. . . and onto portable media. A couple of days ago, a David Pogue piece in the New York Times focused on ScanMyPhotos.com , which will, f...