Media Preservation

I feel massively privileged to have had the opportunity to intern with EDIBA and the library Conservation/Preservation teams at Harvard, especially with my lack of experience in that particular field. Before my time with EDIBA, I had a few years of...

Today marks the 18th annual celebration of the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage , established by UNESCO to raise awareness of the vulnerability of unique and irreplaceable audiovisual media and highlight the ongoing efforts of the preservation...

Media Preservation Services audio engineer Bruce Gordon works to digitize and preserve analog content for Harvard. Library preservation staff races against time to save historical media artifacts. Five years ago, Harvard Library staff brought the voice of...

by Christopher Sokolowski, Conservator for Special Collections, Weissman Preservation Center C4C turns ten! 2021 brought the tenth edition of Caring for Collections: recent projects across Harvard , to a n audience of peers from every corner of the campus...

By Robert Vaszari, Assistant Film Conservator at Media Preservation Services Ask any university-based film archivist, film conservator, or audiovisual preservation specialist about their must-attend yearly conferences and chances are they’ll mention the...

Preservation Services has existed in some form at Harvard Library for over 300 years; its staff work to maintain, protect, and repair library collections, as well as develop and share best practices for preservation and conservation. 2020 has been a...

Preservation Services has existed in some form at Harvard Library for over 300 years; its staff work to maintain, protect, and repair library collections, as well as develop and share best practices for preservation and conservation. 2020 has been a...

Preservation Services staff have been working from home on projects ranging from transcription to those using specialized handskills. Directly and indirectly supporting Harvard’s massive effort to support online research, teaching, and learning spurred by...

What would you do if confronted with a box (or a room) full of soaking-wet AV media in your special collections? To help answer this question, Harvard Library Preservation Services staff developed “(What If) A River Runs Through It?”, a two-day, hands-on...

In January 2020, Harvard students attended a day-and-a-half Photo Technology Workshop focused on salted paper prints, an early photographic process . Participants had the opportunity to study these rare images (including some of the earliest photographs...