Before algorithms… there was 800-VIDEO-411 ☎️📼
You literally called someone to ask what to rent.
Sunday mornings = digitizing the proof that this world once existed. More in our YT archive.
Get IN PERSON help renting at our shop!
#VideoVisions #VHSCommunity #PhysicalMedia #RetroCulture #ArchiveLife
When the request comes in and it’s deep in the archive ❄️📼 20,000+ movies. A storage unit. Snow on the ground.
Still worth it—because somewhere in there is your movie.
#ArchiveLife #BeKindRewind #VideoStoreVibes #MovieHunt
Still digging through the archive 📼
Box by box, making sure our members always have the freshest picks waiting. Sometimes it’s a holiday classic, sometimes it’s something wonderfully unexpected. That’s the fun of it. ✨
#SleepoverTrading #VideoClub #ArchiveLife #VHSDigging #BeKindRewind
Say Hello to HI GENE who is powered by application, protection, control, prevention and knowledge. #ephemera #librarylife #archivelife
Did you know? We store multiple backups of every recording. Once we’ve recorded a voice, we protect it—forever.
#PoetryArchive20 #ArchiveLife
Glass and concrete building front with “Public Record Office” in stone across the entrance and a paved entrance way in front.
A muster book of cream paper with 12 columns in red and a list of names in black ink
Not sure what it says about me that I feel a sense of calm walking into this place, but I do! (it helps that i found what i was looking for) #archivelife 🗃️
A series of six folded, dirty packets of papers and a sole sheet resting on a wooden walnut table with a white beaded reading weight, a grey box, and a grey foam book stand in the background
That feeling when you *find* a Chancery Court case vs that feeling when you realize you have to *read* said Chancery Court case #notabadproblemtohave #archivelife 🗃️
Its always weird seeing adverts for stuff that we now ban and know is very dangerous. Mercolized wax, Asbestos, Opium, etc. #librarylife #archivelife
My gods the number of adverts for Mercalized Wax in these ephemera items is staggering. #archivelife
A collage of internal and external images of the Royal Berkshire Archives building
Today's #Archive30 is #ArchivesBuildings so we're sharing some images of the RBA. In this pic we have the exterior, the searchroom, a strongroom - where we store the archives - and stairs. We couldn't function without our stairs - or our lift! 😉 #ArchivalProduction #ArchiveLife
At the great search for how to do italic text in EAD leads to… multiple results and no answers…. #archivelife
You know sometimes you have to process a collection that seems to have been touched by a elderich beasts tender love? This is one of THOSE. Collections. #librarylife #archivelife
Archival awesomeness, 19th cent. books with marbled edges. Just municipal admistration, but in such pretty covers ❤️
#archivistsofbsky #archivelife #oldbooks
The more I think about it the more I realize that TickTok and similar platforms are modern Vaudeville. Especially so as I process Vaudeville programs that feature many of the same things you’d see in an average TickTok feed #librarylife #archivelife
No you spent 2 hours dating theater programs! #librarylife #archivelife
The first ephemera item I have in hand today stars John Hurt. Yes that John Hurt. #librarylife #archivelife I am trying to contain my fangirling to a sensible librarian minimum.
Requested some documents in the archive, now just waiting while a cat sleeps beside me. Couldn’t ask for better company. #ArchiveLife #CatsOfArchives #🐈
Doing a lot of Opera Ephemera from the 1970s and can I tell you that Alan Light was one very busy guy #archivelife #librarylife
Spend 10 minutes describing something only for it to turn out to not belong to the collection your doing description for #archivelife
Does anyone know an easy way to import a large quantity of bibliographic data into a website that then will display that data in a useful way, I want to be able to add to it and such with as little effort as possible #librarylife #archivelife
Quality archival start to the week, try and find something you did in 2021 to this collection that's now missing. #archivelife
Is is c.19xx or is it 19xx's you can't have it both ways on the same date #archivelife
today I found a moth, acetate negatives and x-rays, so pretty normal archivist day tbf #archivelife
Pretty much done with the big project I’ve been working on. #librarylife #archivelife
I have a travel brochure in my hand advertising travel in Europe in 1938. Nothing could happen in Europe in 1938, right? RIGHT!?... #archivelife #librarylife
Railway ephemera is quickly becoming my favourite, mainly as they put dates on. #librarylife #archivelife
