by Patrick Feaster, Media Preservation Specialist, Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, Indiana University  What’s the oldest documented use of the word “jazz”?  The leading authority on such questions is the Oxford English Dictionary, and if you were to consult the latest print edition in the Reference Reading Room at Wells Library, you’d find an answer:… Read more »

by Patrick Feaster, Media Preservation Specialist, Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, Indiana University  MDPI has a ravenous appetite.  To keep all its lines running at capacity, it needs to be fed around three thousand media objects per week.  The stalwart band of workers responsible for dishing up the necessary diet of tapes and discs is… Read more »