Suggested Local Minnesota Resources we have worked with for Digital Conversion and Duplication. Our recommendations for Twin Cities Prosumer or Consumer Services, Home movies and videotapes. Please let them know you found their website link here at Minnesota Media Arts thanks to Mark Stanley, Ron McCoy and James Malec.

Saving Tape - Tape and film transfers, DVD's, photos, many media formats to digital files. Contact Thor at 612-822-7283 http://www.savingtape.com/

Two Squares - Video, film, slide, tape duplication and transfer to DVD, CD, and Digital Files. Contact Aaron at 763-400-4510 https://www.twosquares.com/

Archival Works LLC - Analog to Digital Media Transfer, Film + Video, Metadata.
St. Paul, MN https://archivalworks.com Contact Brian at 651-366-0906

Archiving Life Media - Preserving Memories for Future Generations. Bloomington, MN 55438 Contact Chris at 952-295-3755 https://archivinglifemedia.com

MN Media Arts Preservation links
http://mnmediaarts.org/preservation.html

Recommended Video Archive Standards from the Minnesota Historical Society
http://mnmediaarts.org/video-archive-standards.html

For a better understanding of the importance of planning and
What an Archive Producer Does (blog post)
Archive Producer Roles: mnmediaarts.blogspot.com

Minnesota Media Arts - Collections Care, Metadata, Analog Preservation to Digital.
https://mnmediaarts.org/ Contact Mark or Ron at 612-361-7476

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Preservation Links:

Minnesota Historical Society - preservation of collections, digital conversion
http://legacy.mnhs.org/grants/digital-conversion-and-reproduction

Library of Congress article from 2013 
http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/08/a-new-guide-for-archiving-digital-video/

Smithsonian Institution Archives - preserving Film, Audio, and Video
siarchives.si.edu/services/forums/collections-care-guidelines-resources/

Smithsonian Digitization - Analog to Digital 

Smithsonian- Digitization on Demand

Council on Library and Information Resources - CLIR.ORG
http://www.clir.org

Dance in the American Cultural Context (CLIR) http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub84/documentation.html

NYU Libraries Preservation Guide
memoriav.ch/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/VARRFP.pdf

COOL Cultural Heritage Guide
http://cool.culturalheritage.org/bytopic/video/

Library of Congress - 2013 preservation guide
http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/08/a-new-guide-for-archiving-digital-video/

Library of Congress - digital preservation
http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/07/whither-digital-video-preservation/

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/

AMIA- The Association of Moving Image Archivists
https://amianet.org/ is an international nonprofit association dedicated to the preservation and use of moving image media.

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Museums featuring media preservation:

Walker Art Center - Ruben/Bentson Film and Video Study Collection
https://walkerart.org/visit/mediatheque/
https://walkerart.org/ruben-bentson-moving-image-collection/

Museum of Modern Art (NYC) In depth story about their preservation efforts
http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2015/04/08/digitizing-momas-video-collection

School of the Art institute of Chicago Video Data Bank Library
https://www.vdb.org/content/about-vdb

The Long Beach Museum of Art Video Archive (California )
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt9489s3qx/

Good 2007 New York Times article about the same Archive. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/arts/design/09kino.html?_r=0 (paywall)