When the Worst Happens: On long and short-term disasters and their impact on preservation thinking

WHEN THE WORST HAPPENSON LONG AND SHORT-TERM DISASTERS AND THEIR IMPACT ON PRESERVATION THINKING

Kara Van MalssenAudioVisual Preservation Solutions

Screening the Future8 May 2013

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by David Shankbone via Flickrhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/shankbone/8145644147/

credit: Justin Lane/EPAhttp://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/10/hurricane-sandy-live-updates-2/

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JONATHAN MINARD

HOT OFF THE PRESS!http://bit.ly/11F3vuO

THE VERGEHYPERALLERGICO’REILLY RADARBRIAN LEHRER

WALL ST JOURNAL

http://hyperallergic.com/60598/eyebeam-hurricane-sandy-flooding/

http://bit.ly/107CX8p

http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/01/eyebeam-update-two-months-after-sandy.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14F3Azvodbw

http://on.wsj.com/11HibcS

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/15/3876790/eyebeam-hurricane-sandy-digital-archive-rescue

System restore: How archivists salvaged 1,500 volumes of digital

art from Sandy’s floodwaters

http://vimeo.com/53849333

http://hyperallergic.com/60598/eyebeam-hurricane-sandy-flooding/

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According to tradition, [the Great Library of Alexandria in Egypt was] destroyed in a fire. Depending on whose story you believe and which villain you want to blame, this fire happened anywhere from 47 BCE to 641 CE. Or perhaps the Great Library fell on hard times and gradually lost its collection over the centuries to deterioration, theft, and other unspectacular causes. In any case, it’s so thoroughly lost that no one even knows what happened to it, and with it a huge amount of ancient literature vanished.

—Gary McGrath Files that Last

April 2013

COI= cost of inaction

“It may be possible, with enough work, to read almost anything, but there comes a point where it’s not economically feasible.”

—Gary McGrath. Files that Last. April 2013

Disaster became the impetus. Our organization’s long-delayed plans to secure a collection stored on unstable formats now had critical urgency.

—JONATHAN MINARD quoted in “After Sandy, Eyebeam is Thriving” Hyperallergic, 18 April 2013http://hyperallergic.com/69094/after-sandy-eyebeam-is-thriving/

THANK YOU!kara@avpreserve.com

@kvanmalssenwww.avpreserve.com

When the Worst Happens: On long and short-term disasters and their impact on preservation thinking

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