As the bankruptcy of the University of the Arts and the fallout of its sudden closure last year continue to play out, its institutional records have found a permanent home. https://loom.ly/MCP2rus

Gathering books from UCLA, UC Berkeley, and the Prelinger Library, the Internet Archive’s Cookbook and Home Economics Collection offers a compelling glimpse into how gastronomic culture has developed throughout the past several centuries. https://loom.ly/3hR9N7A

This week's Screening Room looks at the challenges of film scanning. As comparatively affordable film scanners have become available in the past decade, more institutions have initiated their own scanning programs. Look for the link in your inbox.

Recorded by more than 130 New Yorkers using consumer camcorders, the footage captures both the devastation and the resilience of the city during one of its most challenging moments — long before social media reshaped how major news events are recorded and shared. https://loom.ly/Csq7bCs

James Wheeler, who moved to Detroit from Arkansas during the Great Migration in 1958, spent decades collecting film posters, photographs, and memorabilia. https://loom.ly/u1p46Jk

Call for Proposals: JTS 2026 will bring together recent research, technical innovations and developments in the technology used to preserve audiovisual materials. https://loom.ly/-RmH5vM

Do you know someone who has made notable contributions to the field? Nominate them now! Awards include the Silver Light, the Stark Award, the O’Farrell Volunteer Award, and the Ray Edmondson Advocacy Award. Any member may submit a nomination.

Inviting media archivists, media librarians, and all those who preserve or provide access to audiovisual media to participate in the 2025 Annual Salary & Demographics Survey of the Field. https://loom.ly/K9ytzhM

Will you be in Sacramento next weekend? Sacramento on Film: Celebrating 15 Years of California Revealed! #regionalarchives

Schedule update: tomorrow’s CRT Repair & Maintenance workshop is moving to October 24, 2025. Same topic, same speakers—new date. Thanks for your patience! https://loom.ly/4tr_8MM

“For about 60% of the time, I am your regular, old subject department reference librarian. And then 40% of the time, I go out into the nearby community around the central library and sign people up for library cards, talk about our wonderful free programs and services.” https://loom.ly/uaVzMvA

The Disney archives celebrate 55 years with Pinocchio's help .. https://loom.ly/ERNhZ6o

The hour long session covers basic CRT maintenance, repair and diagnosis, safety, and how to utilize the vacuum tube and CRT databases. https://loom.ly/4tr_8MM

MIRC Director Daniela Currò compared it to science fiction - “It’s really a way of traveling in space and in time. We get to a world that doesn’t exist anymore, but still speaks to us.” https://loom.ly/sL1fd7I

Now that the consolidated clickwheel game collection is complete, though, owners of any iPod 5G+ or iPod Nano 3G+ should be able to sync the complete library to their personal device completely offline, without worrying about any server checks from Apple. https://loom.ly/m_q_lBo

Will you be in Sacramento next weekend? Sacramento on Film: Celebrating 15 Years of California Revealed! #regionalarchives

This week's member Screening Room is from the 2016 Projection Workshop in Austin. Filmmaker Peter Flynn talks about his film "Dying of the Light" - a loving tribute to the art and romance of the movies and the unseen people who brought the light to our screens. Look for the link in your inbox.

Looking back at 2018 -when "Girls Like You" was the most watched music video, Black Panther introduced us to Wakanda, and women's ice hockey was the talk of the Olympics. AMIA was in Portland and there were projection workshops in Chicago and in Boston.

The vast archive of the New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham has found a home and the Getty Museum has doubled its holdings of Italian illuminated manuscript leaves in this month's acquisition roundup. https://loom.ly/DEmOg6M

Only a fraction of Hesse’s full archive has been digitized. https://loom.ly/206N-NM

WIshing all of our colleagues at IASA and SEAPAVAA a great conference in Honolulu this week!

It also chronicles his adventures in classical music and hybrid styles, via scores for pieces such as “Universe,” an orchestral suite conceived for Davis’s band in the mid-60s but never recorded by that group. https://loom.ly/TxoRJPc

This week's Screening room features a conversation from September 2022 with Oleksandr Teliuk, Head of the Archive at the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre in Ukraine and AMIA's Rachael Stoeltje discussed the situation at the Centre. Watch here: https://loom.ly/6Shdj40

The hour long session covers basic CRT maintenance, repair and diagnosis, safety, and how to utilize the vacuum tube and CRT databases. https://loom.ly/4tr_8MM

The model aids identifying film series, elements, and reels with high risk ratings and high priority levels, and priorities and risks given film series and element categories. https://loom.ly/JR6NcGw

Archives are everywhere! The items chosen to be archived within SubTropolis — which was developed by Lamar Hunt, founder of the Kansas City Chiefs and the American Football League must be "oddities." https://loom.ly/L2A9ibM

Artificially generated images were added to scenes to make the original movie big enough to fill the venue’s massive screen, which wraps up, over and around the audience. https://loom.ly/cwmBqIw

This week's Screening Room is a virtual tour of the Asian Film Archive with Executive Director Karen Chan from AMIA 2021. Look for the link in your inbox.

This first-of-its-kind collaboration for the Springsteen Archives will bring compelling exhibits and educational programming to Boston, with work beginning immediately. https://loom.ly/BDzWwD8

The G. William Jones Film & Video Collection began as a passion project for one man, but has evolved to become a cultural catalog of Dallas history. https://loom.ly/iMOp4MQ

The David Bowie archive exists as concrete proof that Bowie had a curatorial mindset from the start, which included recognising the value of his outrageous stagewear. https://loom.ly/z9PbPyU

Congratulations on receiving SAA's Josephine Forman Scholarship, Rai!! https://loom.ly/esZ2GL8 #PathwaysFellow #SimmonsStudentChapter

A major goal of the program is to increase visibility of archives to the public through exhibitions, community programming, and digital projects. https://loom.ly/WjM_Wb8

This week's Screening Room spotlights the Cinematic Spectacle of Pancho Villa's Posthumous Career. Check your inbox for the link.

In 2007 we met the first iPhone and the first Kindle, hashtags became a thing, and The Sopranos ended just as Mad Men began, AMIA hosted JTS in Toronto, the conference was in Rochester, and the first Trivia Showdown premiered (congrats to It's All Your Vault for the win).

The Norma Jean Almodovar Papers document her decades of advocacy for sex worker rights and include materials from her personal life, activism, and the nonprofit she founded: the International Sex Worker Foundation for Art, Culture, and Education (ISWFACE). https://loom.ly/enXSMvA

"To fund the repayment, we plan to draw on the approximately $300 million in cash we expect to receive from the reversion and settlement of our U.S. pension fund (the Kodak Retirement Income Plan, or 'KRIP') in December" https://loom.ly/5oJc3XI

"Many of the leaders produced pre-1930 were anything but "blank." The extra length set aside for protection and threading also served as a convenient location for statements of identification and ownership." - The Beginnings and the Ends of Film, from The Moving Image (2016) https://loom.ly/RMixoTE

CBS Saturday Morning looks into one-of-kind collections - including an interview with archivist Ted Ryan at Ford Motors, Harvard's Magna Carta, and Game of Thrones. https://loom.ly/5fCcYDE

Tomorrow is the deadline to submit nominations for the 2025 National Film Registry! https://loom.ly/cY8g-DA

An interesting three part series from Elizabeth Merritt on the impact presidential executive orders are having on our sector, and the implications for museum business models. https://loom.ly/g3SNGTU

Call for proposals: This special issue of The Moving Image will articulate the unique logistical, technological, and legal challenges of videotape preservation. https://loom.ly/CjFjs20

Starting in June with How to Train Your Dragon, the studio has attached a legal warning at the end credits of its films stating that their titles “may not be used to train AI.” https://loom.ly/Bie5D14

This week's Screening Room is a 2021 Copyright Committee conversation about Unlocking Moving Images in Archives. Look for the link in your inbox.

Many (many) congratulations to Reto Kromer - the recipient of the 2025 James A. Lindner Archival Technology Medal from SMPTE! The Medal is in recognition of his pioneering contributions to audiovisual preservation technologies and will be awarded in October.

Congratulations to the 2025 NFPF grant recipients! https://loom.ly/C4q1Scs

Though widely renowned for his work, the photographer was said to be hesitant for his archive to become available to the public: The New York Times reported that he claimed he would rather see it burn. https://loom.ly/ILPn3d8

California Sen. Alex Padilla made the designation in a letter sent to the Government Publishing Office, which oversees the program. https://loom.ly/pb2g2Co

It might be a little cold for snowcones during #AMIA25, but if you're in Baltimore, it's perfect for now - the Ultimate Charm City Snowball Guide https://loom.ly/ilggwwM

Vidiots Foundation has announced a relaunch of its ambitious VHS digitization project! https://loom.ly/FDMBHmI