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Fitness to History
I was at the Natural History a few weekends ago, and to pass a little time before Cosmic Collisions, I walked the cladogram of vertebrate evolution. I don’t know that sort of full-contact, total-immersion classification will ever really take hold with American Youth, but one of the wonders of New York City is that there is…
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Art Space Tokyo!
I am very excited to say that I am backing of a Kickstarter project to reprint Art Space Tokyo. This exquisite book was originally published by Chin Music Press, a wonderful group in Seattle. Art Space Tokyo had eluded my grasp for quite some time. The first edition is quickly becoming unavailable and developing some mercurial pricing.…
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Digital Preservation Basics Workshop
On Wednesday, March 3, I’ll be at History San Jose to give a workshop on the basics of digital preservation. This workshop is being given as part of the California Association of Museums conference and is the public test-run for a new digital preservation curriculum that the California Preservation Program is developing. For workshop attendees,…
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Tour and Talk for the Horn Press
I’m looking forward to a visit with the students of the Horn Press on Weds, Feb. 17. UCLA Library’s conservator, Kristen St. John, will be giving a tour of the Library Conservation Center and afterwards I’ll be speaking about the state of things in library preservation and showing photos from a few disaster response projects.…
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Building a Preservation Program at the UCLA Library
The UCLA Library is one of the nation’s great academic libraries. Its collection of more than 8.5 million cataloged items supports the work of one of our greatest universities, with UCLA ranked at or near the top of almost any metric you could choose. Along with core collections supporting the research and instruction of thousands…
