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A Prairie Home Companion: Status and Archives – A 2025 Update
A Prairie Home Companion: Status and Archives A user today on Facebook asked about A Prairie Home Companion. It ended its original run on July 2, 2016, when Garrison Keillor hosted his final episode at the Hollywood Bowl after 42 years as host. The show continued under Chris Thile from October 2016 until 2020, when…
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“Old Central” – A photo tribute to history of San Diego Central Library – DrWeb
The Photos — Sometime in 2013, I started taking a lot of photos inside the old Central Library in downtown San Diego, 820 E Street. I worked there for 15 years, Librarian II, was the Training Librarian, Science, and Documents Librarian in my career there. I retired in 2016. These bring back some rich memories,…
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Brewster Kahle, the internet’s librarian | California Sun
Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, housed in a former San Francisco church with Greek columns that echo the ancient Library of Alexandria, discusses his three-decade mission to preserve humanity’s digital knowledge and culture. Now facing unprecedented challenges, including a major cyberattack and legal battles with publishers over the site’s distribution of copyrighted materials,…
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Going to the Dogs: The American Kennel Club Library and Archives l Archives Deep Dive | Library Journal
By Elisa Shoenberger, Apr 26, 2023 | Filed in News The American Kennel Club (AKC) Library and Archives has been collecting practically everything dog-related, with a significant focus on purebred dogs, since 1934. The library began as a resource for AKC members, explained AKC Archivist Jaimie Fritz; it holds about 15,000 volumes and the archives…
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Archive of Ernest Hemingway Writings, Photos Opens to the Public for the First Time | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
Privately owned for decades, the materials include a short story featuring F. Scott Fitzgerald, personal effects and rough drafts By Molly Enking, Daily Correspondent, September 26, 2022 3:13 p.m. A veritable treasure trove of papers, artifacts and photos linked to Ernest Hemingway is now accessible to scholars and the public for the first time. As…
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What the new archive at Penn State reveals about Ernest Hemingway – Deseret News
By Hannah Murdock, Sept 23, 2022, 7:05am PDT After sitting for decades in a storage room in Sloppy Joe’s Bar in Key West, Florida, Ernest Hemingway’s favorite bar, a treasure trove of materials belonging to the author could change the way we think about him. Unpublished short stories, manuscripts, photos, letters and correspondences and more have…
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Las Vegas History | Las Vegas News Bureau 75th Anniversary
75 Years of Capturing Las Vegas History The LVCVA [Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority] Archive has nearly 7 million images, 11,000 pieces of film and video, and 1,300-linear-feet of manuscripts and artifacts. The largest collection in the LVCVA Archive is the Las Vegas News Bureau Collection, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2022.…
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Using Wayback Machine for Research | The Signal | Internet Archive | Library of Congress
October 26, 2012 by Butch Lazorchak The following is a guest post by Nicholas Taylor, Information Technology Specialist for the Repository Development Group at the Library of Congress. Prompted by questions from Library of Congress staff on how to more effectively use web archives to answer research questions, I recently gave a presentation on “Using…
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The Best Book Repair Tape for Maintaining Your Tomes
A list of the best book repair tape for keeping your collection in top shape. A broken spine, loose covers, and ripped pages are unwelcome sights in anyone’s library. Thankfully, a simple roll of tape can assist with repairs. While it might be tempting to reach for whatever masking tape or cellophane tape you have…
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Old Time Radio : Free Audio : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive
Source: https://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio
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Lou Reed Archive at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts | The New York Public Library
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is thrilled to announce that the Lou Reed Archive has been processed and is now available to users. The Lou Reed Archive documents the history of Reed’s life as a musician, composer, poet, writer, photographer, and tai-chi student through his own extensive papers, photographs, recordings and…
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A Love Letter to the People Who Build the Internet Archive | Internet Archive Blogs
“When you visit a public library, you get to meet the librarians and others who build and care for those collections. You know there are people who empty the garbage cans, who put back the borrowed books, who maintain the computers, and who determine what ends up on the shelf.” “A digital library, on the…
