Native American leaders fear priceless records from their history may be lost after a fire at a convenience store on Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis on Sunday.

A pair of organizations with Central Texas roots look to preserve historic musical performances, and the history behind the music itself

Photographer Elizabeth Tyler rediscovered the images, now donated to City Archives, in her attic.

The operator of the Cranford Theater in New Jersey battled back from the pandemic and a ceiling collapse — and is now planning to mark the centennial with a gala screening.

University staff voice concerns over reputational risk of partnering with company behind ChatGPT

By defining and mapping the landscape of community-based archives, the study provides funders, institutions, and practitioners with insights about the value of these unique organizations.

A practical tool designed to help organizations assess the preservation status of their television collections and determine their next steps toward sustainable archival management.

  September 30, 2026 8:00am – 2:00pm (Pacific) Generative AI is changing how archives create, manage, preserve, and provide access to collections. It is also raising new questions about authenticity, copyright, licensing, provenance, and what it means to steward the historical record in an environment where authentic and synthetic records increasingly coexist. Building on the …

The collection of documents comes from a subway obsessive.

Designed to recognize outstanding graduate student scholarship founded upon archival nontheatrical research, this award underscores both organizations’ commitment to mentorship and professional development, connecting award-recipients with mentors to guide them through the process of crafting journal-ready manuscripts. The award-winning essay will also be published (subject to revisions) in The Moving Image.

  September 30, 2026 8:00am – 2:00pm (Pacific) Generative AI is changing how archives create, manage, preserve, and provide access to collections. It is also raising new questions about authenticity, copyright, licensing, provenance, and what it means to steward the historical record in an environment where authentic and synthetic records increasingly coexist. Building on the …

When the 1991 Mount Unzen eruption began, volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft did not run. Sara Dosa's Fire of Love documentary analyzes their fatal transition from safe red volcanoes to deadly grey ones. Their archival footage reveals an absolute surrender to the planet's wildest force.

Mounir Touzri and Houssem Eddin Boubakri, Wikipedians in Residence from Wikimedia Tunisia, working with historical archival documents during their residency at the National Documentation Center of …

The collections of these two major figures in American culture reside at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

'Once Upon a Time in Harlem' has won the Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film, which comes with a cash award of $200,000.

Todd Gatewood's restoration of the Patterson-Gimlin Film will be released Oct. 20, nearly 59 years after the footage was captured.

UNESCO will support the digitization of Ukraine’s Dovzhenko Centre audiovisual archives, helping protect cultural heritage, improve digital storage, and expand public access to historically important collections.

The New York Public Library acquired The CameraPlanet Archive, the largest contemporaneous video collection of 9/11 and its aftermath.

TBCs are workhorses in your analog-to-digital signal chain, and they can have an important impact in the quality of your transfer.

Zackary Drucker is an independent artist, cultural producer, and trans woman who breaks down the way we think about gender, sexuality, and seeing. She has performed and exhibited her work internationally in museums, galleries, and film festivals including the Whitney Biennial 2014, MoMA PS1, Hammer Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, MCA San Diego, and SF MoMA, among others. Drucker is an Emmy-nominated Producer for the docu-series This Is Me, as well as a Producer on Golden Globe and Emmy-winnin...

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  September 30, 2026 8:00am – 2:00pm (Pacific) Generative AI is changing how archives create, manage, preserve, and provide access to collections. It is also raising new questions about authenticity, copyright, licensing, provenance, and what it means to steward the historical record in an environment where authentic and synthetic records increasingly coexist. Building on the …

Minister of Culture announced the establishment of the country’s first Belize Music Archive and the National Recording Treasures of Belize.

TBCs are workhorses in your analog-to-digital signal chain, and they can have an important impact in the quality of your transfer.

Native Hawaiian professors Maile Arvin and David Aiona Chang co-author a letter opposing the closure of National Archives at San Francisco.

Generative artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how audiovisual materials are created, reused, and interpreted. For archives, libraries, and cultural heritage organizations, these changes raise urgent questions about authenticity, rights, access, and the responsible use of archival materials. This toolkit, developed by the Working Groups of the Trust in Archives Initiative, is designed to help archives …

DigitalSF provides access to over 80,000 materials, no library card required.

A practical tool designed to help organizations assess the preservation status of their television collections and determine their next steps toward sustainable archival management.

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El Centro, CA., Thursday, August 20, 2026.The El Centro Library is inviting residents to help preserve the stories, photographs and keepsakes that tell the history of Imperial Valley through a new Imp

Images generated by AI models trained on massive datasets often can’t be traced to specific training images, MIT CSAIL researchers found. Removing individual images from the dataset didn’t change outputs, complicating copyright questions.

Designed to recognize outstanding graduate student scholarship founded upon archival nontheatrical research, this award underscores both organizations’ commitment to mentorship and professional development, connecting award-recipients with mentors to guide them through the process of crafting journal-ready manuscripts. The award-winning essay will also be published (subject to revisions) in The Moving Image.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Enlarge Bradford P. Wilson, 12th Archivist of the United States. The United States Senate voted on August 7, 2026, to confirm Bradford P. Wilson as Archivist of the United States. Wilson was nominated by President Donald J.Trump on March 2, 2026, and received strong bipartisan support following his testimony before the Senate Homeland and Government Affairs Committee.

The project developed by the Writers Against the War on Gaza serves as a digital memorial for the around 240 Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza since October 2023.

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CNN’s library alone library alone encompasses more than 45 years of broadcast coverage of global news, wars, elections, and major political events.

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In a dusty box of old reels, the Library discovers a short by a filmmaking pioneer.

For 20 years, the National Geographic photographer has showcased Earth’s animals in a series of striking images that make even the tiniest creatures look immense

The Grateful Dead understood the importance of recording its legacy. A number of archivists and historians are dedicated to maintaining the band's immense collection of music and memorabilia.