The Media History Digital Library
David Pierce is a historian and archivist. A former curator at the BFI, Pierce is the founder and co-director of the Media History Digital Library (MHDL), a collection of digitised film trade journals, comprising more than 1.3 million scanned pages. He is also co-author, with James Layton, of The Dawn of Technicolor: 1915-1935 (George Eastman House, 2015).
David Pierce’s talk examines the origins and developments of the MHDL and highlights the challenges and possibilities when working with online archival materials.
Useful Sources
MHDL’s Partner Libraries:
- Library of Congress (LoC) – Packard Campus: http://www.loc.gov/avconservation/packard/
- University of Maryland – Library of American Broadcasting: http://www.lib.umd.edu/special
- Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Library: http://www.moma.org/learn/resources/library/index
- Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum: http://nilesfilmmuseum.org
- Pacific Film Archive Library: http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/pfalibrary/
