Digitize your old home movies, photos at the Wildcats Memory Lab
Faculty librarian and digital preservation specialist Stacey Erdman launched the Wildcats Memory Lab in the University of Arizona Main Library to provide the community with a place to scan their home movies, family photos and more - free of charge.
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If you've got old wedding videos or boxes of family photos collecting dust in your closet, the Wildcats Memory Lab at the University of Arizona can help bring those precious memories into the 21st century and preserve them for generations to come.
Opening March 24 on the third floor of the Main Library, the do-it-yourself digitization space is run by University Libraries and provides the equipment, guidance and resources needed to convert analog media into a digital format.
The project is led by Stacey Erdman, an associate faculty librarian who oversees both digital preservation and archival digitization for the library. Her work involves developing digital stewardship policies, strategies and workflows for all of University Libraries's digital collections. Erdman believes the Wildcats Memory Lab is one of the first – if not the first – public memory labs at a U.S. higher education institution.
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