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We went through our social media archives and found  these shots of some of the beautiful and exciting work that hung in the Mudd Gallery in the last year

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Some crazy cool art going up in the Mudd Gallery! Come to the opening of “Winter Light” this Thursday at 5:30. #librariesofinstagram #muddgallery #thirdfloor #larryu #artinthelibrary #wesupportstudents (at Seeley G Mudd Library at Lawrence University)

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Sunday afternoon is the perfect time to stop by the Mudd Library and take in the exhibit, “Selections from the Estampas de la Revolución Mexicana Portfolio.” This exhibit is in the third floor Mudd Gallery and consists of works from Lawrence’s permanent collection. #muddgallery #larryu #artinthelibrary #tallerdegraficapopular #librariesofinstagram

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Junior Noah Gunther’s work on display in the Mudd Gallery #librariesofinstagram #artinthelibrary #larryu #muddgallery

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Come to the Mudd Gallery tonight at 5:30 for the opening reception of the student show “Dead of Winter: New Holga Photographs”, it’s sure to be dark #artinthemudd #muddgallery

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LU Student and artist Kori Looker’s piece “Transgressing Boundaries” is on display in the Mudd gallery! Tonight, Friday the 3rd, at 5 is an opening reception for the show #artinthemudd #muddgallery

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Thanks to a donation and the hard work of Susan, our cataloguer, many VHS recordings of theatre and opera performances in the collection are being replaced with DVDs! Prefer streaming video? Check out video databases such as Digital Theatre Plus and Met Opera on Demand at guides.lib.lawrence.edu/av. #larryu #theatre #opera #librariesofinstagram

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Veterans, thank you for your service and your sacrifice. We honor your courage, struggles and voices #veteransday

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Today is Electronic Records Day! Wait, what are electronic records anyway?  All of these materials above can either be considered electronic records, or are in formats that must be recreated as digital files in order to be useful.   Electronic records are found on multiple media formats, and they include all kinds of content: emails, websites, reports, digital images, blogs, newsletters… think about how you create records these days – chances are it involves a computer and some software. We’ve come a long way from collections that are box upon box of paper!

Here in the Special Collections and University Archives we are actively working to preserve electronic records in our University Archives and our various manuscript collections, so that people 10, 50,  and 100 years from now will be able to access them.  How do we do this?  There are many different technologies that we use.  For example, we capture websites with a tool called Archive-It.  We also regularly re-format files that we find on floppy disks, CD’s, DVD’s, flash drives and other media, because those storage media can be quite unreliable [In a recent project, the Electronic Records Archivist recently found that 96 out of 98 3.5 inch floppy disks in a single transfer were corrupted!]  Software and hardware both change rapidly, so it is a race against time to make sure electronic records stay accessible.  It’s a race that we’re working hard to win…. 

How can you preserve your own electronic records?  The Council of State Archivists provide some tips , and you can always  get in touch with us! 

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For a Miniature Monday post, we thought we’d go to our makerspace today rather than the special collections. The tiny robots are 10 mm tall and the larger in the bottom photo are about 30 mm. We were pretty impressed that our Ultimaker 2+ could print the tiny ones with such detail.

And yes, many *squees* were emitted when the tiny ones were printed.