Monday’s Link Roundup.

This week’s Monday’s Link Roundup includes 5 video presentations. I don’t know how that happened but they’re all terrific! My favorite is Words of the World: The Secret Stories of Words. And for a clever and creative way to document personal artifacts, you’ll want to take a look at The Things We Keep. For optimum viewing go to full screen and use the pause button to make it easier to read the text.

• A Brief History of Title Design. A 2 minute presentation video for the SXSW “Excellence in Title Design” competition screening.

• Words of the World: The Secret Stories of Words. “We love words. So we’re all over Words of the World — a fantastic collection of short videos about words, presented by experts from the University of Nottingham’s School of Modern Languages and Cultures.”

• Reading my parents’ wartime letters. “When I was a child, my mother would sometimes look off into the distance and tell me, “Your father and I were separated for almost three years during World War II, and we wrote to each other every other day.” [Thanks to Philip Sherwood of Lifewriters for alerting me to this item.]

• The Best Way to Archive Anything: L.O.C.K.S.S. “In recent years, dozens of articles have appeared in this newsletter and in all sorts of other genealogy publications claiming to tell how to preserve documents, family photographs, and other information. I don’t think that any of the articles are “wrong,” but it strikes me that very few of them ever described the most effective storage method of all.”

• The Things We Keep. A video by christian svanes olding. “I wanted to know what it would look and feel like to walk into someone’s home and discover that the objects inside are able to express themselves through the lens of an augmented reality, with a particular focus on memory and personal relationships.”

• 1967 Documentary Romanticizes Bookbinding. “The 1967 documentary Bookbinders, part of the America at Work series by the AFL-CIO, which frames the book production process with enough romanticism to make today’s most notorious “better-nevers” nod along like the bobblehead dogs on the dashboard of a New York cabbie.”

• Video: The Flip-Pal Portable Scanner. “At the recent RootsTech conference in Salt Lake City, the busiest booth in the exhibits hall usually was at the company selling a one-and-a-half-pound battery-operated scanner called the Flip-Pal.”

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