Part 3 – LBI and the Day of Digital Archives
Weekend at Scharmützelsee – 1935
This is an example of an archival collection that takes on an entirely new meaning in the context of information provided by the donors. This footage of summer vacationers in Germany in the 1930s contains few clues about the identity of the subjects or their historical circumstances. In…
Part 2 – LBI and the Day of Digital Archives
FC Bayern München vs. Eintracht Frankfurt
In 1932, FC Bayern München faced Eintracht Frankfurt in the German Championship football match on June 12, 1932 at the Städtisches Stadion in Nuremberg. The game was a repeat of the southern-German title game that spring, in which Eintracht Frankfurt won 2:0. Munich turned the tables…
The Leo Baeck Institute and the Day of Digital Archives
by David Brown, Leo Baeck Institute
Leo Baeck Institute is home to nearly 4,000 linear feet of archival collections, 25,000 photographs, and thousands of artworks related to the history of German-speaking Jews. Today, the Institute is finished digitizing nearly all of it, plus hundreds of books from the Library collection.
Since 2007, the…
Happy Digital Archives Day!
by Christine McEvilly, Digital Archivist and Librarian, American Jewish Historical Society
But what in the world is the Day of Digital Archives? Once a year, those of us who work with digital collections in archives, museums, and libraries like to share just what our jobs are all about and help people understand what we do. We have all sorts of…