Objects as Evidence: Embroidered Folk Art

Description: Embroidery onto white cotton muslin fabric, machine sewn onto navy cotton fabric with small white hearts. This could possibly be considered a decorative folk art piece. The embroidered words read “I’ve been taken again, kidnapped before dawn stolen by these songs, oh damn them all.” and also include an embroidered double cross with blue

A closer look: video recordings and the potential digital preservation challenges they pose for the University of Glasgow

It is apparent from the University of Glasgow’s Archives and Special Collections’ Collections development policy that the university would want to capture a former graduate and professor of Information Studies’ professional records. While both personal and professional materials were given to the university in the form of a laptop, external storage, etc., we have decided

The Versatility of the Zoom Recorder

Handheld Zoom recorders have been used by musicians, podcast hosts, filmmakers and so many other creative professionals for years. I had never heard of the technology until working as a graduate assistant at UNC Charlotte’s University Archives and Special Collections. I was working on interviewing black white couples in North Carolina for my thesis and

Lessons from Katrina: What Climate Change Means for Archival Planning

In 2005, the United States experienced one of the most devastating storms to ever hit the country: Hurricane Katrina. The result was thousands of lives lost and hundreds of billions of dollars in damage. No disaster management plan could have mitigated the damage to libraries, archives and special collection repositories. The American Library Association estimates