The broadcaster is the owner of more than six decades of Canadian news, music and entertainment history dating back to the 1960s. https://loom.ly/cmInN_c

Check out AMIA's upcoming online schedule, offer AI tools, film restoration, and audio essentials. https://loom.ly/boiKLGY

Congratulations to May Hong HaDuong, recipient of the 2026 Vittorio Boarini Award at the Cineteca di Bologna, presented each year to international figures who have distinguished themselves in the preservation and dissemination of cinematographic heritage. Well deserved! https://loom.ly/s3hjjxc

Having lain unpublished and forgotten in a US archive, the memoir will be published on 6 August. https://loom.ly/GwqsujI

The videos have this almost scary ability to document so much of modern life. If you imagine losing that, you would lose access to what life was like at this time and how people were expressing themselves” https://loom.ly/qF2WK6c

What began as an ambitious idea among a handful of sisters in 2018 has become a landmark effort to safeguard the history of Catholic sisters, with a collaborative archive that will preserve the records of 10 congregations for future generations. https://loom.ly/PEal8Tg

Suspended against the gallery wall, the installation unfolds as a dense black tapestry constructed entirely from magnetic tape. At its center, hundreds of interwoven strips create a reflective surface that catches and diffuses light, producing an almost metallic sheen. https://loom.ly/WF4GYM0

Join us for Introduction to DaVinci Restoration Tools + a three part Film Restoration Essentials workshop practicum, starting July 1. https://loom.ly/4xm-ewQ

“I don’t trust anything. Every image I see, I’m drawing lines for shadows and doing geometry in my head, trying to figure out what I’m looking at. It’s over. Within a year or two, our whole visual system will be utterly useless.” https://loom.ly/tSOFY7M

"This young female artist had the vision and skills to create a timeless classic that still speaks to audiences across the world. Even 100 years on, we're still thinking, 'How did she do that?'" https://loom.ly/4jb1RoQ

If news is the first draft of history, the loss of local news archives means a loss of memory, culture, identity and, sometimes, reality. https://loom.ly/Bz_IMr0

The Internet Archive Switzerland is a newly-formed Swiss non-profit foundation that will operate independently within its national context. https://loom.ly/sRtxSWY

Join us for Introduction to DaVinci Restoration Tools + a three part Film Restoration Essentials workshop practicum, starting July 1. https://loom.ly/masKr18

In the Season 1 finale of The Archive Room, Rachel Antell, Co-Founder of the Archival Producers Alliance, and AMIA's Laura Rooney, talk about the Trust in Archives Initiative. https://loom.ly/zDDZE0M

The BFI now has an online video archive to conserve the best and brightest of online culture: "First came the Cinema Age, then the TV Age, and now the age of Online Video. Digital film created for distribution online is today’s most dynamic, influential screen form," https://loom.ly/vVdCibc

The restoration reinstates more than three minutes of footage that was believed to be lost and had only ever been seen by audiences attending the film’s original Japanese theatrical release in 1958. https://loom.ly/_sWij24

A colour copy of the promotional film was discovered in the archives of the Atlanta music television show “The Now Explosion” - held at the Walter J. Brown Media Archive & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia. https://loom.ly/GARWVB8

The MMCC Tape Bake Cookbook brings together more than 50 tape baking “recipes” from 30+ contributors, capturing the workflows, lessons learned, and evolving practices being used across the archival community today. You can preorder your cookbook now! https://loom.ly/mwGx8ZQ

The Academy says it will recognize theaters that provide exceptional audience experiences, preserve cinematic history and serve as cultural anchors in their communities. https://loom.ly/VW619pM

This week's member Screening Room are two sessions on public access. The first, Public Access is Different: Digitizing The Video Access Project Collection and the second, Finding Films and Filmmakers with Public Library Sources. From AMIA 2021. Look for the link in your inbox.

AMIA 2026 is in Steel City! The Conference Committee invites proposal submissions for sessions, lightning talks, panels, papers, reports, forums, posters, and workshops. We hope to see you in Pittsburgh! https://loom.ly/jrGgLJE

Nate Neal tackles film preservation in this comedy-adventure flick, Treasure of the Lost Reel. https://loom.ly/O2KZehg

Swift’s filings suggest that AI law will increasingly focus not only on protecting the work of musicians, writers, journalists and artists, but also on protecting the signals that tell audiences who is really speaking. https://loom.ly/fxe4vxw

Another missing episode of the series was written by the great Roald Dahl. One other episode, “The Corpse Can’t Play,” previously resurfaced, leaving four still missing. https://loom.ly/jN4QoPA

The Cinematheque Libanaise was founded in 1999 by then-Minister of Culture Mohammed Youssef Baydoun. It was part of a series of cultural initiatives launched after UNESCO named Beirut the Arab Cultural Capital for 1999. https://loom.ly/HANrBjI

This study focuses on restoring structural damage in archival films, such as scratches and patches. https://loom.ly/a4EvZ4M

A structured introduction to the field, designed to provide an accessible foundation in the core concepts, terminology, and workflows essential to AV preservation and access. https://loom.ly/8t3dI-I

This week's member Screening Room looks at true crime. Conversations among caretakers of television archives revealed that true crime producers may be our most frequent and prominent users, influencing the use and preservation of this material. From AMIA 2021 - look for the link in your inbox.

Looking for something to do in LA this weekend? It's a great program + free admission! https://loom.ly/s3DSwpY

What did people in the 1960s think homes in the year 2001 would look like? Spoiler: there are a lot of buttons, automation, and the domestication of the computer. Watch here: https://loom.ly/Zoh-5a8

AMIA 2026 is in Pittsburgh! The Conference Committee welcomes proposals representing the work and perspectives across the field. https://loom.ly/jrGgLJE

The BBC sci-fi series famously still has 95 episodes missing from its 1960s run, after many early instalments were wiped or junked as part of archive practices between 1967 and 1978... https://loom.ly/TvzTtP0

Free admission. Ticketing is first come, first served. https://loom.ly/s3DSwpY

The AMIA Scholarship deadline is May 31st! Apply for each of these scholarships: the Sony Pictures Scholarship, the Women in AV Archiving and Technology Scholarship, and the Broadening Perspectives Scholarship, supported by George Blood, LP. https://loom.ly/qNy33ag

A structured introduction to the field, designed to provide an accessible foundation in the core concepts, terminology, and workflows essential to AV preservation and access. https://loom.ly/8t3dI-I

The interview includes a visit to FotoKem to "watch their artists assemble and color correct final release prints of “The Odyssey.” “It’s a really marvelous thing to see… in this age of digitization, AI, all the rest, this is a human process. An analog process.” https://loom.ly/MUVQ-GI

But while the Internet Archive hasn’t fundamentally changed over the years, the Internet itself is transforming in ways that jeopardize the nonprofit’s mission. https://loom.ly/NTBKawY

Startups that are shutting down are now selling off their company data, including emails and Slack messages, for as much as hundreds of thousands of dollars to help train AI models. https://loom.ly/_OjYAl8

The donation includes approximately 150,000 production documents and 5,000 photographs spanning Brooks’ decades long career as a writer, performer, director and producer.

“From icons of R&B to a holiday favorite en Español, from a legendary sports broadcast to this generation’s superstars, it is a thrilling reflection of America at its best.” - Robbin Ahrold, chair of the National Recording Preservation Board. https://loom.ly/DhfwYe8

Despite previous efforts to scan the documents, hundreds of thousands of historical records remained only in paper form in 2023, vulnerable to fire, flood or deliberate destruction. https://loom.ly/BufPa38

The webinar series highlights one of the tools in each session. Sessions blend presentations with discussions on common challenges, different approaches, and potential adaptations for various organizations, while also considering future tool developments and resource needs. https://loom.ly/fxVWwa8

Beyer noted that the Nazis had deliberately tried to build the biggest base they could, also to make Germans as a nation complicit in their crimes. https://loom.ly/U0ygSCw

It includes the Godfather’s of the avant-garde film personal items which accompanied him throughout his creative life: his rich correspondence and historical documents, the computers, the studio and video editing equipment. https://loom.ly/PMlWSmU

AMIA 2026 is in Pittsburgh! The Conference Committee welcomes proposals representing the work and perspectives across the field. https://loom.ly/jrGgLJE

It’s simply not feasible to save all the media consigned to our institutions, and we must inevitably come to terms with our limitations in collection criteria, storage and staffing. This week's Screening Room is Curation Through Careful Deaccession, from AMIA 2015.

The AMIA Scholarship deadline is May 31st! Apply for each of these scholarships: the Sony Pictures Scholarship, the Women in AV Archiving and Technology Scholarship, and the Broadening Perspectives Scholarship, supported by George Blood, LP. https://loom.ly/qNy33ag

An interview with Charlotte Barker, describing her role as one of the caretakers for the studio’s history, but also someone who helps advocate for the archive and film restoration. https://loom.ly/v5Qz5RY

Wishing all of our colleagues at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival a great opening night!

UCLA Library Special Collections project manager Joseph Gallucci describes the ongoing effort to document audiovisual materials across Library Special Collections, including discoveries along the way. https://loom.ly/KUXtmgo