Archiving
How to store your information. Storage materials, techniques, practices
Writing plays about local events
What do you do after the stories have been recorded? This WaPo story about the Virginia Stage Company, who produces one play a year on a local theme. They develop or adapt the play with material emerges from community dialog. The current production, A Line in the Sand, is about a civil rights struggle fifty years ago as the local community grappled over the question, Will we prevent our schools from being racially integrated? The story hit my radar since the production from two years ago used oral histories from local people who took care of elders to adapt Shakespeare’s King Lear.
This news feature reminds me of the power of the story brought home, and my own sense of wonder at reading or hearing a story that has something to do with me, as opposed to the story that concerns some other person in some other life, whether the ancient Greeks, the renaissance, or some other strata of this society that I don’t belong to.
Those stories of Odysseus, Michelangelo, Galileo, Lincoln are all well and good, but I respond to... Read More
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CDs and DVDs: Tons of good info
The Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs, A guide for librarians and archivists. Found while researching the layer-cake sandwich of materials in an optical disk. Disk structure page. Did you know that the top side of a CD-R is thin and fragile? I mighta mentioned it before, but this underscores it, in a big way.
Also of note: the tests for aging and shelf-life of CDs and DVDs that you can burn yourself is that their pre-writing shelf life is limited to some 5 years or so. By all means, stock up, but don’t stock up too much.
Gold disks are the best. But that’s a topic for another post.
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