"UMG maintained additional tape libraries across the United States and around the world. But the label’s Vault Operations department was managed from the backlot, and the archive there housed some of UMG’s most prized material. There were recordings from dozens of record companies that had been absorbed by Universal over the years, including several of the most important labels of all time. The vault housed tape masters for Decca, the pop, jazz and classical powerhouse; it housed master tapes for the storied blues label Chess; it housed masters for Impulse, the groundbreaking jazz label. The vault held masters for the MCA, ABC, A&M, Geffen and Interscope labels. And it held masters for a host of smaller subsidiary labels. Nearly all of these masters — in some cases, the complete discographies of entire record labels — were wiped out in the fire."—Jody Rosen

The Day the Music Burned >

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazine/universal-fire-master-recordings.html

#music #history #master_tapes #reel_to_reel #reels #vault #masters_vault #fire #archives #tape_libraries #UMG #Unviversal #labels #catastrophe #music_history #loss #archiving #audio #audio_master #masters #libraries

“The #recordings that #burned 🔥up in the Universal fire — like the songs that are blasting from car windows on the street outside your home, like all the records that you or I or anyone else has ever heard — represent a wonderment that we have come to take for granted.

For most of human history, every word spoken, every song sung, was by definition ephemeral: Air vibrated and sound traveled in and out of earshot, never to be heard again.

But #technology gave #humanity the means to catch sounds, to transform a soprano’s warble, a violin’s trill, #ChuckBerry’s blaring guitar, into something permanent and repeatable, a sonic artifact to which listeners can return again and again.”

#Music / #sound / #jazz / #soul / #rocknroll / #RockMusic / #analog / #digital / #archives / #UMG / #UniversalMusicGroup <https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazine/universal-fire-master-recordings.html>

Theodore Roosevelt National Park today. Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/thro/index.htm and #nps #nationalparks #northdakota #publiclands #photography #landscapephotography #TheodoreRoosevelt Image credit National Park Service Air Quality Web Camera Network/NPS Air Quality Webcam Archives #research #airquality #interpretation #archives

"MPLP", they said, applying subject heading URIs to 50K individual folders 🙃

#Archives

[#veille] #BAnQ - « Je me souviens » : des membres du personnel racontent l’ouverture de la Grande Bibliothèque | BAnQ
https://www.banq.qc.ca/explorer/articles/je-me-souviens-des-membres-du-personnel-racontent-louverture-de-la-grande/
#bibliotheque #archives #quebec #memoire

RT @lemonde - « Gilets jaunes » : la consultation des cahiers de doléances désormais ouverte à tous aux archives https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2025/05/02/gilets-jaunes-la-consultation-des-cahiers-de-doleances-desormais-ouverte-a-tous-aux-archives_6602296_3224.html
#cahierscitoyens #cahiersdedoléances #granddébatnational #giletsjaunes #veille #archivesnationales #archives @archivistodon #histoiresociale

[#brevesdesalledelecture]
- J'ai regardé comment on pouvait consulter les #cahiersdedoléances du #granddébatnational (rester à la pointe de l'actu : ✅ ). Super simple (sauf à déchiffrer les pattes de mouche)
- Trois conseils de recherches vers le fichier de police administrative 1940-1949 trop méconnu (https://www.siv.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/siv/IR/FRAN_IR_054192) et même pas de mon fait. Improbable !
- Des demandes de renseignements... Sur des cotes déjà trouvées.
- Des recherches de naturalisation

#archives

« Gilets jaunes » : la consultation des cahiers de doléances désormais ouverte à tous aux archives https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2025/05/02/gilets-jaunes-la-consultation-des-cahiers-de-doleances-desormais-ouverte-a-tous-aux-archives_6602296_3224.html #société #archives #giletsjaunes

University librarians are fighting to keep democracy’s data alive. As federal webpages vanish, archivists race to save endangered government info—from climate data to Black history.
#datapreservation #infopolitics #archives

https://www.infodocket.com/2025/05/02/sf-chronicle-trumps-war-on-information-meets-a-dedicated-adversary-university-librarians/

Oh good, so Lil' Marco Rubio has MORE jobs he's not doing? #marcorubio #elsalvador #CECOT #DHS #ICE #marco #NSA #USAID #Florida #DOS #SecState #uspoli #StateDept #USA #DOGE #deportations #ICEraids #donaldtrump #MAGA #rubio #archives

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rjr6nfdzrfngjgc34jjyty6a/post/3lo2vzcu7fs23

SF Chronicle: “Trump’s War on Information Meets a Dedicated Adversary: University #Librarians” https://www.infodocket.com/2025/05/02/sf-chronicle-trumps-war-on-information-meets-a-dedicated-adversary-university-librarians/ #libraries #archives @internetarchive

Le point sur les classements :
Le secteur archives privées des Archives de Lyon accueille en stage de Master 2 archives Lea Boeglin qui classe le fonds des établissements Adélaïde Perrin.
La genèse des établissements Adélaïde Perrin débute par la volonté d’une femme lyonnaise, Adélaïde Perrin (1789-1838). Dès 1819, elle a accueilli quelques jeunes filles malades que les hôpitaux ou leur famille ne pouvaient prendre en charge.
Aujourd’hui, les établissements sont spécialisés dans la prise en charge d’adultes en situation de handicap mental et psychique.
Un magnifique fonds qui devrait être disponible à la recherche à la rentrée.

#archives #ArchivesdeLyon

#Histoire #histodons #archives #Normandie

📣 Conférence : Du « prince des bibliothécaires » au « modèle des archivistes ». Lettres de Léopold Delisle à Charles de Beaurepaire (1851-1908)

📅 22 mai 2025

📍aux archives départementales de Seine Maritime

https://www.archivesdepartementales76.net/actualites/du-prince-des-bibliothecaires-au-modele-des-archivistes-par-michael-bloche-et-francoise-vieillard-332/n:235

Can AI erase the tedium of managing digital collections without also erasing what makes them distinctive? Find out in this recording of last month's webinar with Sara and Ben Brumfield of FromThePage, who explore the good, bad, and ugly of AI in archives.

https://digitalcuration.umaine.edu/teleconferences/dig_brumfield_teleconf_2025.html

#Archives #Collections #Data #DataViz #DigitalCuration #DigitalHumanities #Digitization #GLAM #Libraries #Metadata #Museums #UXdesign #AIethics #AIimages #GenAI #LLM #MachineLearning

This month's theme is #EYAFunAndGames. Share your fun archive stories!

To kick us off, here's our new blog post from the National Fairground and Circus Archive at the University of Sheffield. There's some great photos in it:

https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/photographic-collections-at-the-national-fairground-and-circus-archive/

#Sheffield #Circus #Archives #Faireground #fun #games @histodons

Article du jour sur Archives et culture pop : Mirrors et l'accès aux dossiers médicaux : https://archivespop.wordpress.com/2025/05/02/mirrors-une-question-de-droit-dacces/

#archives #mirrors

TechSpot: Original Fallout creator was ordered to destroy source code, then Interplay lost its official archive. “After [Tim] Cain left Interplay during Fallout 2’s development, the company ordered him to destroy his personal archives. He complied, believing Interplay would maintain the official materials. However, the company failed to preserve them, leaving a significant gap in the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/02/techspot-original-fallout-creator-was-ordered-to-destroy-source-code-then-interplay-lost-its-official-archive/

think it's time I made an #Introduction

I'm Orthodox #Jewish tho in my small local community it can be hard to find friends bc I'm also a #Leftist #Antinationalist. I play #Violin; currently: translations of songs with themes of #Anarchy & #WorkingClass #Solidarity. influenced by #Klezmer, #Celtic & #Folk #Music. I work in a community #Ceramics studio & study #IMLS (Info Management & #LibraryScience) / #GLAM (Galleries Libraries #Archives Museums), & #Yiddish culture/history of #EasternEurope.

[#archives en séries] Des dossiers d'élèves d'une école indienne classés alphabétiquement par un prêtre dyslexique...

Dark Winds, saison 1, épisode 4.
#viedarchiviste

With the news about Polygon, I wonder if folks have archived things like SEO Play, Gil and Gilbert, Unraveled, etc. Lots of creative, comedic videos and series that could get deleted in the shuffle.

#polygon #archives