CULTURETECHLENSThe Preservation Record — What Survives, on the Record
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Preservation is a race the archive is running in public. The tapes demagnetize, the web rots, the buildings come down. This lane holds who is doing the saving, what is already lost, and what it costs to keep the record.
The research briefs — Preservation (PRES)
- Who Preserves Black Chicago? — Which institutions maintain significant Black Chicago collections and how are they accessible? The question is bounded: it asks for institutions, collections, and access conditions — not…
- The Disappearing Black Web — What risks threaten historically significant Black digital material? A risk-mapping question, not a loss-accounting question. Every risk requires a specific documented case, and each case is…
- Tape, Wax, and Hard Drives — What would it take to preserve Black Chicago's recorded sound — reel tapes, acetates, cassettes, and born-digital audio — before the carriers and the knowledge of them fail?
The Regal file
- The Regal Does Not Move: The Avalon Regal, 79th Street — the $249,500 Adopt-A-Landmark case — preservation as a public fight, traced document by document.
The guides and research files
- Black Cemeteries & Burial Grounds — the ground itself as archive.
- The Black Memory Emergency — the research file on what is being lost, and how fast.
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