STEM Ed+ Commons | Sarah Mainville | Activity https://stemedplus.hcommons.org/members/mainvil3/activity/ Activity feed for Sarah Mainville. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:43:54 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 743a704109f6f02f1787a3dcc7eda3ff Sarah Mainville wrote a new post, MSU Libraries' $1 Million Film Preservation Grant, on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.commons.msu.edu/?p=980 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 19:40:33 +0000 We are so excited to announce that the Michigan State University Libraries was awarded a $1 million Congressionally-Directed grant through the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to support a […]

]]> e2818899e51e649de3459777cb550662 Sarah Mainville wrote a new post, Nitrate Film at MSU: Off to the Vendor, on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.commons.msu.edu/?p=876 Thu, 22 Feb 2024 21:26:14 +0000 For the next installment in our nitrate film series, we will recount how and why we hand-delivered the film to our vendor.

Nitrate film is classified as a hazardous material by the US Department of […]

]]> 60101e3ba0b3ba7c87b5f1050731f3b2 Sarah Mainville posted a new activity comment https://commons.msu.edu/activity/p/1863456/#acomment-1863468 Thu, 02 Nov 2023 20:26:16 +0000 Thanks Ruth Ann! Whenever I think of computers from that time period, I think of Woody Allen's film Sleeper. What an interesting time to be in the field.

In reply to - Sarah Mainville wrote a new post, Digital Curation Lab:, on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries Or: How MSU Libraries Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Obsolete Data Carriers In honor of World […] ]]> ef2257f3a19808051cf902e15fe8169c Sarah Mainville posted a new activity comment https://commons.msu.edu/activity/p/1863456/#acomment-1863465 Thu, 02 Nov 2023 20:19:48 +0000 Great question! We are working on that and once it has been drafted, we can share it 🙂 At this point we are building redundancy in our machines since they aren't manufacturing much of what we are using. Chances are if you are interested in donating to it, we may want it.

In reply to - Sarah Mainville wrote a new post, Digital Curation Lab:, on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries Or: How MSU Libraries Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Obsolete Data Carriers In honor of World […] ]]> 36be39a167cea50f3ae57fb1b54b0988 Sarah Mainville wrote a new post, Digital Curation Lab:, on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.commons.msu.edu/?p=807 Thu, 02 Nov 2023 18:45:18 +0000 Or: How MSU Libraries Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Obsolete Data Carriers

In honor of World Digital Preservation Day, MSU Libraries' Digital Preservation Working Group and the Media Preservation Unit […]

]]> 5ad5a300ff46161d3e4ff85710234093 Sarah Mainville wrote a new post, Nitrate Film at MSU Libraries: An Unexpected Guest, on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.commons.msu.edu/?p=747 Fri, 27 Oct 2023 15:42:32 +0000 In celebration of World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, the Media Preservation Unit at MSU Libraries would like to begin a blog series on the preservation efforts we are taking to steward a collection of […]

]]> 1213f29f4bf6bb8c9bb95e4943488770 Sarah Mainville posted a new activity comment https://commons.msu.edu/activity/p/1856780/#acomment-1856882 Tue, 29 Aug 2023 18:25:53 +0000 Thanks for the comment. We are so happy to hear you like our blog and enjoy the content. We think it is pretty fascinating too 🙂

In reply to - Melanie Goulish wrote a new post, Polavision: The Demise of a Legend , on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries Welcome to our new biweekly series! This semester, every two weeks on Tuesdays, we will be […] ]]> a6e5640dab8e14cba42866f7605c9e95 Sarah Mainville posted a new activity comment https://commons.msu.edu/activity/p/1762191/#acomment-1764650 Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:45:24 +0000 Thanks for the kind words Kristen. 🙂

In reply to - Sarah Mainville wrote a new post, 2021 Year in review, on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries 2021 has been a year! Despite it all, our media preservation team has been hard at work, behind the scenes, […] ]]> 7a4c62ab59220144290e1bbb9d666473 Sarah Mainville wrote a new post, 2021 Year in review, on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.msu.hcommons.org/?p=515 Tue, 21 Dec 2021 17:36:57 +0000 2021 has been a year! Despite it all, our media preservation team has been hard at work, behind the scenes, to ensure that the limited time we have to preserve MSU Libraries’ audiovisual collections is put to g […]

]]> b70d9710cba6bbff90c435175f5f94ea Sarah Mainville wrote a new post, HOme recordings: a personal and cultural touchstone, on the site Media Preservation at MSU Libraries https://mediapres.msu.hcommons.org/?p=343 Wed, 16 Dec 2020 20:51:53 +0000 As we enter the last and darkest month of 2020, we see the rise of COVID-19 in most communities across the United States. With that we are also facing the prospect of smaller gatherings for the holiday season, […]

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