Preservation Week IV: Education for Preservation
Since I’m posting from my alma mater bibliotheca, we’re coming up on the deadline for our summer internships, and have several of our student assistants about to hit the job market, I thought I would...
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Summer Internship First Impressions: Emilia Mahaffey
In the middle of June I began an internship with the preservation department at UCLA. The internship started the way all jobs do – with a lot of paper work. I began my morning with a trip to library HR...
View ArticleDigital Preservation Survey
On July 15, I led a workshop for UCLA Library staff and some guests from the Southern UCs. We covered a lot of topics that bear on preserving digital collections: specifics of preservation theory as it...
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Slow Fires, Burnt Edges, and the Only Perfect Cycle Seat
Hello, esteemed readers! This is Dawn Aveline reporting to you from the summer after completing my first year in UCLA’s MLIS program. Since last fall, I’ve had the good fortune of working with Jake in...
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Internship UCLA Library Note the deadline for the 2013 internship is May 7, 2013 More info here The UCLA Library Preservation Department is offering a conservation pre-program internship for...
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Water Salvage Workshop
Books absorb water and expand. On Tuesday, March 19, I volunteered at the water salvage workshop put together by LAPNet (Los Angeles Area Preservation Network) and hosted by the University of Southern...
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UCLA Library Conservation Center The UCLA Library Preservation Department is offering a conservation pre-program internship for qualified students who are applying for Masters-level training in...
View ArticleInternship Report: Javier Servin
My name is Javier Servin and I am a recent graduate of the Moving Image Archive Studies (MIAS) program at UCLA. During my last quarter at UCLA, I had the opportunity to intern in the Library’s...
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Never Judge A Tape By Its Shell: Part I (Beta)
I recently taught a two day workshop in processing archival AV collections. The main objective of this workshop was to teach a handful of professionals how to identify key information from a collection...
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