Microfilm: Rumors if its death have been greatly exaggerated

Microfilm?  Are people still using that?
Are you kidding?  Here’s what Bernie Madoff’s liquidation trustee Irving Picard had to say: “I expect these claim statistics will change as we continue to review and evaluate them. For example, we are finding that more than one claim may have been clipped together [and] are being broken apart. We [...]

Digitized Newspapers Help in the Classroom

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, by now you’ve heard about newspapers and books getting digitized and made accessible over the Internet or on the new ebook readers.  I ran across a blog that illustrates exactly how one teacher is using digitized newspapers as an educational tool.  What’s even cooler about it is that [...]

October is American Archives month

This month we celebrate American Archives month, and thus, the importance of archives.  So . . . what is an archive?  Here is one definition: “an archive is a collection of individual publications that are often cataloged or listed and made accessible in some way.  Magazines, journals, and newspapers with Web sites sometimes refer to [...]