# Blog Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 111 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by NewestOldestAlphabetical A-ZAlphabetical Z-APublish Date (DESC)Publish Date (ASC) sort list grid\_view ## 111 results [### Digital Accessioning Wins, Fails and Dragon Tales: Part 2 ](/news/2026/05/digital-accessioning-wins-fails-and-dragon-tales-part-2) May 11, 2026 In Part 1 of this story , we left off with DAP (Digital Accessioning Program) having been burned by the dual-headed dragon known as Degralescence, and further whapped by it’s moldy tail, leaving degraded disks damaged and a new mold problem to face... ![Photo of mold on a disk, with an inset image of what that mold looks like zoomed in with a pocket microscope, where viewers can see the webby-looking hyphae.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11066/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/Mold3-5PocketMicroscope.png?itok=Gsq2rLjz) [### Digital Accessioning Wins, Fails and Dragon Tales: Part 1 ](/news/2026/05/digital-accessioning-wins-fails-and-dragon-tales-part-1) May 05, 2026 This is a long due post about the Digital Accessions Program (DAP), the new service DPS started building in spring of 2024 and has finally been able to launch (check out our wiki for more). DAP is a central service that works with our library partners to... ![A drawing of the 2 headed dragon Degralescence, copied from Michael Casey's 2017 presentation, see notes for citation.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11066/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/Degralescence_Casey2017.png?itok=t2Kz3T1X) [### Experiments in sustainable digital humanities projects ](/news/2026/01/experiments-sustainable-digital-humanities-projects) January 27, 2026 From January to April 2025, Digital Preservation Services partnered with Harvard University IT (HUIT) Arts and Humanities Research Computing on a pilot to reduce the resource load for maintaining Harvard’s digital humanities projects. The four-month... ![A screenshot of the Hearing Modernity site before it was maintained by DARTH staff. The domain is expired, and there are styling errors, a broken image, and a disconnected audio plug-in.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11066/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-01/Screenshot%202026-01-27%20at%202.12.42%E2%80%AFPM.png?itok=9CHPT4i7) [### When bad things happen to good books ](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/12/when-bad-things-happen-to-good-books/) December 16, 2025 Sent through the laundry. Torn by paper-clips. Eaten by insects. Bitten by a dog. Dog-eared to death. These are just some of the ways that books can be damaged, as seen on a recent afternoon at the Weissman Preservation Center. Students in “Texts in... ![A woman sewing a book on a sewing frame with students watching her progress.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11066/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-12/AH_TNT.jpg?itok=0zRU0xFn) [### 2025 World Digital Preservation Day: Why Preserve? ](/news/2025/11/2025-world-digital-preservation-day-why-preserve) November 06, 2025 World Digital Preservation Day is an annual event sponsored by the Digital Preservation Coalition to bring international attention to the critical challenges and opportunities of digital preservation stewardship. The theme of this year’s celebration is... ![World Digital Preservation Day, 6 November 2025](/sites/g/files/omnuum11066/files/styles/hwp_scale_small/public/2025-11/WDPD-logo-2025.jpg?itok=VSACqTkM) [### Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Digital Preservation ](/news/2025/10/celebrating-twenty-five-years-digital-preservation) October 23, 2025 This week marks the 25th anniversary of the Digital Preservation Repository. The DRS is Harvard Library’s centrally-supported platform for long-term preservation of Harvard’s deep, broad, and unique digital collections. These materials span all genres and... ![Buddhist Nun Kneeling at Altar](/sites/g/files/omnuum11066/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-11/HYC_0.jpg?itok=xUFj0QwP) [### Lessons learned: DPS builds out staff training opportunities and reflects on what works ](/news/2025/09/lessons-learned-dps-builds-out-staff-training-opportunities-and-reflects-what-works) September 16, 2025 Starting a career in libraries often begins with a couple of years of formal education and internships. Then you launch onto the professional scene, where you grasp at continued professional training wherever possible – sometimes through institutional... ![Paired bar graph showing the pre and post survey results, with post survey bars slightly elevated over pre survey bars](/sites/g/files/omnuum11066/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/Screenshot%202025-08-05%20at%202.07.18%E2%80%AFPM.png?itok=bJm6xblK) [### The Ounce: An Antidote to Oops! Careful Handling Training ](/news/2025/05/ounce-antidote-oops-careful-handling-training) May 19, 2025 Using a book as a croquet wicket may be fun but is not good for the binding. Careful handling of library materials is an important part of preservation; helping to prevent damage for current and future researchers. In-person handling training has always... ![Farcical print of a group of people in Victorian dress playing croquet using books as wickets](/sites/g/files/omnuum11066/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/BookCroquet_Schlesinger.png?itok=wKSrx336) [### Celebrating 25 Years of Excellence: The Legacy and Future of Harvard's Weissman Preservation Center ](/blog/celebrating-25-years-excellence-legacy-and-future-harvards-weissman) April 23, 2025 by Erin L. Murphy, James Needham Chief Conservator Weissman Preservation Center and Collections Care Twenty-five years ago, a visionary initiative was set in motion by the late Jan Merrill-Oldham, then Head of Preservation, and Harvard College alumni Paul... ![Two women and a man standing in front of a plaque commemorating a new building.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11066/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/library-preservation/files/wpc_jmoweissmans.jpg?itok=GwtVCovf) [### The Ounce: Spring Pests Have Sprung ](/blog/ounce-spring-pests-have-sprung) April 17, 2025 Welcome to The Ounce, an occasional missive for Harvard Library colleagues from Preventive Programs in HL Preservation Services. Spring has sprung and with it an increase in pests. With this uptick in activity, Preservation usually receives the following... description [### Lots Of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe: Harvard / IPLC partnership key as team implements secure preservation solution for shared web collections ](/blog/lots-copies-keeps-stuff-safe-harvard-iplc-partnership-key-team-implements) March 21, 2025 Written by: Julianna Barrera-Gomez (Digital Accessions Specialist), Digital Preservation Services Many of us enjoy or even rely on the use of historical web collections – maybe we’re reminiscing about the early web design era (getting inspired by those... ![Image of a 1997 capture of the Harvard University website](/sites/g/files/omnuum11066/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/library-preservation/files/harvard_wayback.png?itok=Zf_R0sl9) [### The Ounce: Not if we jam it! (bin-packing guidance) ](/blog/ounce-not-if-we-jam-it-bin-packing-guidance) March 05, 2025 For all you Spaceballs (1987 Mel Brooks movie) fans out there…The Ounce has prepared a Preservation redux to help you pack books into hinged-lid transport bins. BARF: What are we doing risking our lives for a rush recalled library book? I know we need the... ![20250305_spaceballsjamit.gif](/sites/g/files/omnuum11066/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/library-preservation/files/20250305_spaceballsjamit.jpg?itok=NIPFjS2P) - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [ Last page 10 ](?page=9 "Go to last page") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")