The Atlantic

Saving the Scream Queens

Almost 300 years later, another shipment of material arrived in New Haven: 2,700 VHS tapes from the 1970s and ’80s, making Yale the only U.S. institution that deliberately collects these horror and ...
Texas Monthly

The Oldest and Biggest Video Store in the World Recently Closed. Can a Library Buy Its 130,000 DVDs and VHS Tapes?

In early September, Conrad Bejarano, the owner of I Luv Video, announced that the beloved Austin video store would be closing permanently. Home to more than 130,000 rare videotapes, DVDs, and Blu-rays ...
IndieWire

Daily Reads: Why Yale’s Library Is Preserving VHS, Who Wins When a Brown Actor Plays a White Character, and More

Criticwire’s Daily Reads brings today’s essential news stories and critical pieces to you. 1. Saving the Scream Queens: Why Yale University Library Believes in VHS. The Yale University Library has had ...
The Santa Fe New Mexican

More than 40 years in, the Video Library is still an all-ages hit

According to owner Lisa Harris, the Santa Fe-based Video Library is not only the oldest video library in America, but the second-oldest in the world. The small shop located near downtown off Paseo de ...
Tennessean

Nashville Public Library launches Memory Lab. How to digitize old photos, VHS tapes

The Nashville Public Library has launched a free, self-serve media digitization studio. Customers can convert VHS tapes, photos, slides, and negatives into digital files. The service is available at ...