Ethan ⁽³²⁾

Earlier this month I attended the annual conference for the Association of Moving Image Archivists, this year held in Pittsburgh. MIAP sends a healthy contingent every year of students, staff and faculty (not to mention the alumni filling up panel after panel), so this was…

Computers, computers, computers. I knew becoming a "technician" meant that I would learn more about computers and how they work, but I admit when I took an archival post I thought it might involve more film and analog video tech. Not that I don't work…

This past summer, Microsoft released its "Anniversary Update" for Windows 10. It included a lot of the business-as-usual sort of operating system updates: enhanced security, improved integration with mobile devices, updates to Microsoft's "virtual assistant" Cortana (who is totally not named after a video game AI character who…

do you know how to use Bagit? cause I'm lost the libcongress github is sooo not user friendly I'm missing bagger aren't I ugh ugh I just want to make a bag! That's an email I got a few weeks back from a good friend…

It is an inconvenient truth that the MIAP program is spread across two separate buildings along Broadway. They're only about five minutes apart, and the vast majority of the time this presents no problems for students or staff, but it does mean that my office…