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Step into the vibrant tapestry of the 1980s, where anti-nuclear protests, political upheavals, and iconic figures like Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan mingled with the neon glow of shoulder pads, arcade games, and synthesizers.

Whatever your drivers for change, the migration of your digital collections requires planning, resources, strategic buy-in and, not least, the support services of your chosen vendor. Given how important these migration support services can be, it’s crucial to ask some fundamental questions to, as far as possible, guarantee a smooth experience.

Harris County Public Library celebrated its centenary with over two dozen digital exhibits that chart its history from the first library stations to becoming America’s tenth largest public library system. CJ Williams, Technical Services Manager, reflects on her experience of creating exhibits using AM Quartex and offers advice for establishing efficient exhibit workflows.

In the first of a new blog series, Joanne Fitton, Deputy Director of Libraries, Museums and Galleries at the University of Liverpool, charts the journey so far in effecting digital change across the institution's heritage services.

Comprising over six thousand films, British Newsreels, 1911-1930: Culture and Society on Film represents the vast majority of surviving Topical Budget newsreels, now digitised and presented together for the first time. Jade Bailey, Assistant Editor, AM looks at a number of the black and white, silent newsreels which focus on the process of filmmaking itself and new techniques of the time which are interspersed throughout the collection.

Beth Abbott, Editor, delves into reports, evidence and correspondence from another brutal chapter in the history of colonial violence in Jamaica in the third and final module of Colonial Caribbean . The Morant Bay Rebellion in 1865, marked a tragic episode in the Caribbean's history of colonial violence and this blog looks at the brutal response by Governor Eyre and colonial authorities, which led to indiscriminate violence and death and the subsequent Royal Commission of Inquiry.

What would it mean to see yourself or your own lived experience within a digital archive? In his first blog for AM, Jameson Worley uses his personal experience to answer these questions. And he explores the ways in which digital archives have fostered his own sense of community belonging.

In part 1 of her blog, Helen Duriez, Head of Product at AM, considered why accessibility matters and to whom. In part 2, discover examples of institutions using our technology to serve their audiences as well as how we consider accessibility in the context of our own primary source collections.

In the first of a two-part blog, Helen Duriez, Head of Product at AM, considers what accessibility means to us as a digital publisher and creator of Quartex, and reveals how we hold ourselves to account when it comes to meeting our customers' requirements.

The myriad benefits of serving multiple audiences with separate digital collections sites, all managed from one flexible, powerful and efficient DAMS, are being realised by libraries and archives across the US and around the world. Learn from the examples set by San Francisco State University, Harris County Public Library and Harris County Archives, and Syracuse University.

AM Senior Editor, Sophie Heath looks at our newest module, highlighting some of David Sarnoff's speeches and articles sharing his visions for the broadcasting industry, now digitised from the David Sarnoff Papers held at Hagley Museum and Library as part of our Broadcasting America: The Rise of Mass Media and Communications.

Eleanor Masters, Editorial Assistant at AM dives into our newest module Africa and the New Imperialism looking at the significance of the Berlin Conference from 1888-1885.

Like many members of the AM team, Ana Attrill-Klein, who recently joined our Customer Experience team, has a background working in libraries and archives. In this blog, Ana shares how these experiences have strengthened her belief in archival materials being accessible to all.

We designed AM Quartex with ease of use and efficient working practices front of mind. In a recent webinar, we explored some of the key processes in Quartex that ease digital asset management; here are five of them.

Eleanor Cambridge, Assistant Editor at AM explores the newest module for Interwar Culture, focusing on two fashion designers from the period, who have been largely forgotten.

Courtney Priday, Assistant Editor at AM, dives into our brand new Life at Sea collection to find out how Christmas would have been spent aboard ships during the Age of Sail. These documents provide fantastic insight into the relationships of crew members, their leisure activities and general morale aboard ship.

Editorial Assistant Stewart Pospischil takes a look back through Mass Observation Project and the 2004 Spring directive giving us an insight into what the British public really thought about the BBC. 

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Jade Bailey, Assistant Editor at AM takes a deep dive into India Office Records, E uncovering glimpses of colonial experiences in the newly digitised volumes of correspondence from IOR/E/4/1084, available now.

Sarah Birse, Assistant Editor at AM opens a window into the everyday life of the Victorians through new digitised footage from the British Film Institute.

Zachary Bodnar, Archivist at Congregational Library & Archives explains the importance of display and metadata when presenting unique assets.

Digital archives/collections are heavily dependent upon the scope and quality of metadata for their usability and searchability, but how do you leverage metadata effectively to create meaningful pathways for discovery?

Is there a way of achieving more product through a different process? 

Have you ever been asked to build a business case in order to move a project forward in your organisation? Did the mere thought of it cause anxiety and confusion? Aren’t business cases just … for business? Aerin Bowers, Head of Sales for Canada, discusses.