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Archives, Library Work, Pan Am Grant, Preservation

Handle with Care | Preservation Strategies for Pan Am’s Digital Archive

Repair and conserve: a phrase that drives a vast and complex component of University of Miami Libraries’ (UML) mission. Primary source materials and books are handled over years, decades, and even centuries; room conditions fluctuate, humidity falls and rises, and critters occasionally find their way to them for a snack. For the specialists that manage UML’s Preservation Strategies Department, “repair and conserve” holds a significance … Continue reading Handle with Care | Preservation Strategies for Pan Am’s Digital Archive

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Archives, oral history

Presenting the StoryCorps-Warmamas Community Archive

By Patricia Sowers, Director of Warmamas The Afghanistan-Iraq war is described as our country’s longest war. From 2001 to 2014, over 2.5 million men and women were deployed, most of them to war zones. Multiple deployments were not uncommon. Most of those deployed said goodbye to a mother. Saying goodbye to a son or daughter leaving for war has never been easy. It matters little … Continue reading Presenting the StoryCorps-Warmamas Community Archive

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