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  • Kirsty Cox December 1, 2010 at 7:03am
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How Crowdsourcing Aided a Push to Preserve the Histories of Nazi Victims

How Crowdsourcing Aided a Push to Preserve the Histories of Nazi Victims With people around the globe sheltering at home amid the pandemic, an archive of records documenting Nazi atrocities asked for help indexing them. Thousands joined the effort. Prisoners after the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, in April 1945.Credit...Eric Schwab/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images By Andrew Curry June 3, 2020 While the coronavirus pandemic has painfully…

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Warners Bros. Studio Visit with Archivist Leith Adams

Warners Bros. Studio Visit with Archivist Leith Adams 3:04 PM PDT 10/17/2013 by THR Staff Warner Bros. Studios' archivist gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the hidden treasures on the lot. "It's Denzel Washington's script for the last part of [Training Day]. … Had we not looked in every aspect of that car … someone else might have found it later on … and would have thrown it away," he says.  Click here to watch the video

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used book with a postcard inside ...

 Thought this was a wonderful story about the documents that connect us.Note, you need to sign up to the Post website to read the whole article, sorry. "At Weschler’s, a used book with a postcard inside has an unexpected epilogue."- The Washington Post http://wapo.st/Tv2phV

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Putting a value on the artefact/museum/archival collection

Apologies for cross-posting!Hi everyone,I would love to hear from any of you who have gone through the process of having your artefacts / museum objects / archival collection assessed by a valuer. Is there such a person who does this?After a meeting which was held to discuss the appropriate location for St Patrick's College's artworks and photos, the discussion led to the issue of what our entire collection entails and what it is worth. I think possibly the Headmaster is considering this from…

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