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The Internet is forever…until it isn’t. The streaming service was pretty transparent about the fact that money is the reason for the change to its archive rules: “The storage of this content is costly.”

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The film Her was set in 2025 and said a lot about AI and society. How much did it get right?

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“We haven’t received money from global headquarters. So, employees will not be able to receive salaries for February, and we are trying to find solutions” - Biren Ghose, Managing Director, Asia-Pacific for Technicolor.

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This week's Screening Room is a presentation from AMIA's Oral History Committee. Since 2003 StoryCorps has recorded over half a million stories. In this discussion the StoryCorps team share their successes and challenges in running such an incredible project. Look for the link in your inbox.

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“What’s particularly interesting is that nearly all the students we teach and show this collection to have lived with the internet their whole lives, and this is a look back into the era just before that.”

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Join us on May 7th and discover how The Huntington, a 100+ year-old institution with three vastly different collections and management systems, embarked on its first Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) journey. DAS 2025: DAM In GLAM at MoMA in New York.

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Call for submissions: A special issue of The Moving Image hopes to celebrate the accomplishments and spotlight priorities and directions for the near- and long-term future of small gauge, amateur, and nontheatrical media preservation. https://buff.ly/40yKZK3

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Are you a member of AMIA or APA and interested in potential impacts of Generative AI on archives? Join the AMIA/APA GenAI Interest Group discussion today at 11:00am (Pacific). Check your inbox for the log in link.

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Does GenAI require a critical thinking trade-off? "Higher confidence in GenAI is associated with less critical thinking, while higher self-confidence is associated with more critical thinking." https://buff.ly/3EMgNDW

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From DAS 2014 is a Conversation about curation in digital archive management. This week's Screening Room is open to everyone - and don't miss DAS 2025 coming up May 7th in New York!

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Are you caught up on The Moving Image? The Borders and Boundaries issue from guest editors Melissa Dollman and Jennifer Jenkins, has an AMAZING collection of contributors ...and what a COVER! Members can use their Project MUSE log in information, or subscribe at https://buff.ly/3Qoyo7l

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Shot in Technicolor to best show off the clothes, the film was bound to exhibit what the trade press called ‘feminine appeal’, and there were some incredibly talented women involved in its production both in front of and behind the camera.

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From the British Library - Libraries & AI - Opportunities or Threat? Chaired by writer and broadcaster Timandra Harkness this debate looked into how AI might become more present in libraries, and how libraries should approach AI if they wish to remain trusted information providers.

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Celebrate Valentine's Day with Wendy Clarke's Love Tapes (2011) in a new VDB TV program! Archive and Collection Manager, Kristin MacDonough, curated a selection of five excerpts from Clarke's iconic series Love Tapes.

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This week's Screening Room is a series of lightning talks - part show-and-tell and part call-to-action, speakers share examples of how local TV collections have been used and engage the audience with questions about engagement and outreach. Look for the link in your in box.

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Mark your calendars for DAS 2025: DAM in GLAM - May 7th at MOMA! DAM in GLAM is a unique, single-track forum bringing together DAM practitioners, administrators, and executives for an immersive exploration of practical innovations and approaches in the field.

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Since early 2023, the Copyright Office has been examining the copyright law and policy issues raised by AI. They've released the second part of their report addressing the copyrightability of outputs created using generative AI.

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For Spanish researchers and the public, the 288 films about the Civil War are of greater interest, ranging in length from one minute to one of 26 minutes recounting the situation on the Vizcaya front.

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The End of Term Web Archive captures and saves U.S. Government websites at the end of presidential administrations and is currently accepting URL nominations for the End of Term 2024 Web Archive.

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When your summer internship makes headlines! The 16-millimeter film is believed to be the only known surviving copy of "The Heart of Lincoln," listed by the Library of Congress as among 7,000 silent films believed to be lost.

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"This evening, President Trump fired me. No cause or reason was cited. It has been an honor serving as the 11th Archivist of the United States."

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This week's member Screening Room from 2020 focuses on Ethical and Security Considerations in AV Archiving during the time of BLM and COVID19 and looks at a few ethical frameworks proposed by archivists as models for how we might approach transformational moments. Look for the link in your inbox.

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Designed to recognize outstanding graduate student scholarship founded upon archival nontheatrical research, the Nontheatrical Student Essay Award is a collaboration between the SCMS Nontheatrical Film and Media SIG and AMIA. Submissions are due February 25th!

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Coming up next week is Introduction to Whisper AI, followed up by Introduction to FFmpeg on February 18th. And look for Nitrate Shipping Certification in March, and more!

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"One of the greatest challenges for the Syrian people will be ensuring that the new authorities protect these archives from destruction, exploitation, or unauthorized expatriation. Historical examples from Iraq and Libya serve as cautionary tales."

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Join us February 11 for Introduction to Whisper AI - the workshop cover the basics needed to start using Whisper, an open-source automated speech recognition tool, to create captions and transcripts for digitized audiovisual materials.

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Highlighting the work done by our colleagues at Uluʻulu! "Head archivist Janel Quirante and collections specialist and producer Heather Giugni are passionate protectors of our history — our collective stories in Hawaiʻi Nei."

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The Lorne Michaels Collection documents Michaels’ career in television from his earliest writing for “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” and “The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show” up through and including the nearly 50-year history of “Saturday Night Live,

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This week's member Screening Room looks at Artifacts of Production: Managing Film Outtakes. Large film collections contain more production elements than their archivists are willing to admit. Look for the link in your inbox.

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"Another takeaway is that data centers—and especially crypto—are the 800-pound gorilla in the room; in 2023 AI accounted for only 2% of their voracious energy appetite."

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“Most of our lives are what we work on. Let’s make sure that it is a positive experience, and people feel celebrated in doing it.”

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"Below is a list of all those programs, identified by the Office of Management and Budget for examination to ensure they do not “advance Marxist equity, transgenderism and Green New Deal social engineering policies.”

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Please join us, next Friday morning, at the Ontario Library Superconference! We will be presenting with Vancouver Public Library on "Enhancing Digital Access and Rights through Collaboration: Digitizing IN the Stacks at Vancouver Public Library": internetarchivecanada.org/2025/01/23/j...

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Come work with us! We are currently seeking applicants for the following vacancies: Archivist (Digital) Special Collections & Archives (Job Ref: 002834) Research Data Librarian (Job Ref: 002835) Closing date 07/02/25. Check the website for more info: bit.ly/3yQI7Op #LibraryJobs #JobFairy

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This week's Screening Room is a look back at the state of DAM in 2016. The Smithsonian’s Enterprise Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) was a work in progress ... and look for DAS 2025 on May 7th in New York!

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Flashback to 2009, Lady Gaga was at the top of the charts, Barack Obama was sworn in as president, television went digital, and AMIA went to St. Louis.

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An interview with Genevieve Havemeyer-King. "One thing that has become more relevant for my role though beyond technical skill is communication. Technological challenges can be difficult to pick apart, and collaboration is crucial."

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Call for submissions: A special issue of The Moving Image hopes to celebrate the accomplishments and spotlight priorities and directions for the near- and long-term future of small gauge, amateur, and nontheatrical media preservation.

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AMIA offered three scholarships - the Sony Pictures Scholarship, the Women in AV Archiving and Technology Scholarship, and the Broadening Perspectives Scholarship supported by @@georgeblood_lp. Congratulations to the 2024 Scholarship Recipients

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Join us tomorrow! This online session will demonstrate vrecord’s role in an end-to-end digitization workflow through a basic video capture station. Attendees don't need to be familiar with vrecord, but will find knowledge of video signal chains and the command line helpful.

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It’s simply not feasible to save all the media consigned to our institutions. This week's Screening Room is a session from AMIA 2015 - speakers trace the journey of a hypothetical collection from arrival, to assessment and inventory, de-accession, and disposal. Look for the link in your inbox.

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Interested in learning more about vrecord or FFmpeg? Jan 21 - an overview of vrecord, an open source video digitization and transfer tool. Feb 18 - a workshop on FFmpeg, a command-line tool for creating and modifying and audiovisual files.

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Celebrating Gregory Lukow, the recipient of AMIA's Keystone Award for his contributions across the field to create foundations that have allowed the profession to grow and continue to evolve.

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Join the Amateur Cinema Project in putting a spotlight on amateur films on March 13th!

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Designed to recognize outstanding graduate student scholarship, the Nontheatrical Student Essay Award is a collaboration between the SCMS Nontheatrical Film and Media SIG and AMIA. Submissions for this year's award are due by February 25th!

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Honoring the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB), a collaboration between GBH and the Library of Congress, and this year's recipient of AMIA's 2024 Ray Edmondson Advocacy Award.

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Remembering Michael Schlesinger, a champion of preservation and restoration and especially for the lost or forgotten films. He will be missed.

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This week's Screening Room is a 2020 keynote conversation with Margaret Bodde, Executive Director of The Film Foundation since 1991, and Cecilia Cenciarelli, a director of the Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna. Look for the link in your inbox.

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Celebrating Lindy Leong, the 2024 recipient of the William S. O’Farrell Volunteer Award. Lindy is a film and media educator, film programmer, audiovisual archivist, and an indefatigable volunteer and mentor.

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Remembering Jimmy Carter - his farewell address to the nation, January 1981. https://buff.ly/406N4fW

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