AMIA 2026 Pathways Fellowship applications close soon! The six-month Fellowship includes paid internships, structured mentorship, cohort-based learning, and ongoing alumni support. https://loom.ly/j_yVLbQ

For nearly three decades, historians, journalists, and the public have relied on the Internet Archive to preserve news sites as they appeared online. Those archived pages are often the only reliable record of how stories were originally published. https://loom.ly/edU3b-s

The next meeting of the Trust in Archives Initiative is May 5th. For more information about the initiatives and the AI Toolkit for Archives visit https://loom.ly/rIFUb8A

This week's member Screening Room is about PREMIS, a widely adopted metadata standard for digital preservation. This 2021 workshop introduces the standard, including the basic entities and the relationships between them. Look for the link in your inbox.

For over 60 years a small shop in London took passport photos of famous faces - their archive is now published. https://loom.ly/-UGB1bg

The daughter of photographer Richard Roberts, who took pictures of South Carolina’s Black middle class, told Willis how the family had saved glass plate negatives of her father’s work in the crawl space of the house for many years. https://loom.ly/x9dz_aM

Kenyon is one of 23 research teams being funded by the Schmidt Sciences’ Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) to advance humanities research. https://loom.ly/Va_mDb0

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

Losing control of my work was not only a material loss. It was a loss of archival authority. A reminder that preservation is always entangled with power, and that power rarely rests with the artist once the work leaves their hands. https://loom.ly/SlsX-s8

This week's member Screening Room addresses Ethics, Authenticity, and Your Responsibility in an Age of GenAI. This keynote from AMIA 2024 features speakers Rick Prelinger, Rachel Antell, John Tariot, and Melissa Shew. Look for the link in your inbox.

Much of this is open to the public. You can make an appointment to visit a campus library in person, or you can opt to explore millions of objects online. https://loom.ly/QU8JDtg

Applications are open for the AMIA 2026 Pathways Fellowship! The six-month Fellowship includes paid internships, structured mentorship, cohort-based learning, and ongoing alumni support. https://loom.ly/j_yVLbQ

“Moving image archivists have been studying and working to address the loss of TV news for decades,” said Becca Bender with Channel US, which grew out of AMIA work. https://loom.ly/Bz_IMr0

Innovations in technology since then (y’know, high-speed streaming, iPhones, etc.) paved the way for a collaboration with Rhino and the Dead’s archivist, David Lemieux. https://loom.ly/ljCnrlc

For archives, libraries, and cultural heritage organizations, generative AI raise urgent questions about authenticity, rights, access, and the responsible use of archival materials. TAI working groups have designed a toolkit to help archives navigate an evolving landscape. https://loom.ly/bL7LT4Y

In LA on April 17 and 18? Check out the UCLA AMIA Student Chapter Takeover! Programmed and introduced by student chapter members including Clare Britton, Molly Regan, and Noah Brockman. https://loom.ly/A1u02cA

Apr. 17–18: UCLA AMIA Student Chapter Takeover! We’re thrilled to collaborate with the UCLA student chapter of the Association of Moving Image Archivists @amianet.bsky.social to present a student-curated lineup exploring the themes of “Avant-garde Animation” and “Reenactment.” Free! ucla.in/4stnTjI

Jacobs said the majority of the artists he recorded are pleased to have their work preserved. As for copyright concerns, he’s happy to remove recordings if requested, but added that only one or two musicians so far have asked that their material be taken down. https://loom.ly/9-XI7pk

This week's Screening Room: Project Silica is exploring how to use fused silica (glass) as a media for future archival storage. https://loom.ly/Rub-J_w

Recently, the team has been experimenting with repurposing their archives into entirely new editorial products. They started with a weekly Dateline quiz, a game that challenges readers to guess the year specific excerpts from its archive were written. https://loom.ly/BxO6TOE

Apply for the 2026 AMIA Pathways Fellowship! Fellows participate in paid internships, structured mentorship, cohort-based learning, and an ongoing alumni program. https://loom.ly/j_yVLbQ

"We can recreate that exact, you know, environment that the film was made for. It’s also made to be interactive: an audience, the energy within an audience, reacting to the film. You can’t do that at home." https://loom.ly/b29_XMU

Research emphasizes that heritage can only remain vibrant when institutional efforts are aligned with active community participation. https://loom.ly/yKrCWK4

How can one describe a collection, if the content defies archival standards? This week's Screening Room highlights the challenges and potential recommendations for complex moving image collections. Look for the link in your inbox.

The Central America Independent Media Archive (CAIMA) is a civic tech project which builds tools to protect endangered media against state censorship aiming to provide journalists, researchers, and historians with secure access to uncensored primary sources. https://loom.ly/iz47hLM

The finale features a room with banners from all 107 HBCUs draped from the ceiling and a large-screen video highlighting modern HBCU leaders and the current state of these institutions. https://loom.ly/F5TQaHU

The fifth in our Legacy Equipment Series is Thursday! Proper maintenance and repair is critical - get the foundations you'll need to effectively use and maintain your Betacam, Digibeta and DVCAM decks. https://loom.ly/tffuM3M

A civil rights organizer since high school, Barbara Smith became an architect of Black feminism and Black women’s studies whose work helped lay the foundation for the modern Black LGBTQ rights movement. https://loom.ly/VhWv8VI

"Colorization is a good comparison, but it didn’t have the same sweeping social and economic impact of something like generative AI — so there’s more at stake in how we sort through what we’re going to accept and valorize.” https://loom.ly/bAsiIDM

Call for Special Issue closes March 31st! The Moving Image Special Issue: Videotape in the Archive. https://loom.ly/CjFjs20 https://loom.ly/CjFjs20

This week's member Screening Room looks back at 2015: Implementing the best possible preservation strategy is an intricate and difficult process. IPI worked on an NEH-funded project to create a web-based application called filmcare.org. Look for the link in your inbox.

it's 2013 - the Pope resigns, two European Kings are crowned, Beyonce reigns at the Super Bowl, and AMIA's Black & White Mocha is created in Richmond!

While Sora may be going away, it’s likely OpenAI won’t be abandoning any ambitions toward creating more sophisticated generative video models and potentially looking for more influence in Hollywood or with other media companies. https://loom.ly/O-VWvWI

What’s new online this month at the Library of Congress includes the celebration of J’ouvert by the Trinidadian community of Brooklyn, workshops and reflections byelders of the Makah Indian tribe, and the traditions of coffee growing in the mountains of central Puerto Rico. https://loom.ly/TR6f8Y0

A collection of documents detailing the history of the Black Loyalists in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick has been added to the UNESCO's Canadian Memory of the World Register. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/black-loyalist-archive-unesco-memory-of-the-world-9.7137502

In this week's member Screening Room from DAS 2018 is a closer look at object storage and how it fits in to the expanding archive and a case study on the Montreaux Jazz Festival's digital project. Look for the link in your inbox.

Scored live on musical instruments that line the back of the room, Gravey’s micro-venue doesn’t announce itself beyond some string lights and a curious invitation to check out the next showing. https://loom.ly/vqFqWsc

It holds more than 50,000 items of Scottish film and video sourced and donated over the years from private attics and garages, film clubs, councils, businesses and local museums. https://loom.ly/vq4xFUk

St. Patrick's Day 1917 - from the IFI Archive Player https://loom.ly/faMQkto

And there, on one film, was a black star painted onto a pedestal in the center of the screen. They were looking at “Gugusse and the Automaton,” a long-lost film by the iconic French filmmaker George Méliès at his Star Film company. https://loom.ly/WyvVYRE

This week's member Screening Room is a look at object storage and the Montreux Jazz Festival from DAS 2018. The collection was inscribed on the 2013 UNESCO memory of the world register. Look for the link in your inbox.

The New York Public Library hosted Guillermo del Toro for a tour of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, diving into historical materials related to Mary Shelley and Frankenstein. https://loom.ly/KckZG98

Belgian museum and a U.S. mining company backed by Bezos and Gates are clashing over who should digitize colonial-era Congo mining archives, raising questions about ownership, ethics, and access to historical records. https://loom.ly/hWQnmgM

The next in our Legacy Equipment series is U-matic! You can still register for the series and receive links to the previous session recordings. https://loom.ly/glwoYg4

“I also want to assure you this is not an experimental approach. Over 60 state and local archives nationwide have partnerships with Ancestry,” https://loom.ly/mZtAbGc

The Library of Congress will preserve Wellesnet’s 25 years of Orson Welles film scholarship, ensuring the website’s rich digital history remains accessible for generations of researchers. https://loom.ly/A6fDawU

From AMIA 2022, this week's member Screening Room common misconceptions  on how to digitize assets with a demonstration of a U-matic tape and EIAJ Tape Digitization and equipment. Look for the link in your inbox.

Amateur Movie Day is March 12th! https://loom.ly/2Gh7i9I

Archivist Ted Ryan on Lego's visit to the archives - "My biggest takeaway through this whole process was to see the lengths that the LEGO Icons team went to ensure the historical accuracy of the kit." https://loom.ly/RIPkpDw

Myrient, one of the largest online video game archives, has announced that it will shut down on March 31, 2026. https://loom.ly/EGVMQQQ