About The Library
Welcome to the library. Here you’ll find oddities and sundry that have been trapped in media for a few decades.
I love old media. The physicality of them and - more importantly - what people did with them. I’m more excited by ‘blank’ media than prerecorded ones. We’ve all seen Jurassic Park, we’ve all heard Ray Charles, but have we all heard someone singing along in their kitchen to Christmas carols? When was the last time you played a game of Bamboozle from 1995?\
Its these nuggets that I love discovering and here you can discover them too. I have an awful lot more to share (seriously, someone please take my ebay account off me) so do return for updates.
What kind of stuff do you collect?
Any and all. At the moment in the library we have:
- Cassette tapes
- VHS tapes
- Betamax tapes
- 8-track tapes
- Minidisc
- Reel-to-reel tapes
- 8mm / Super8 film
- 16mm film
- Laserdisc
- Various home movie camera formats
- Slides
Are you able to digitize them all?
I’ve managed to get a workflow for most, but not all (mainly anything projection based such as 8mm film). I haven’t quite got the Betamax functioning properly at the moment either so that still eludes me.
What else would you like to capture?
Aside from the media I already have, currently these are on my capture wishlist:
- Microfiche / Microfilm
- Non-standard over the air (images from weather satellites, ISS chatter etc)
I’ve got some stuff, are you interested?
Yes! We’re always interested in donations of media or players. See the contact page for how to get in touch.