The May 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201205.pdf In this issue: Exploring Collections using Viewshare The challenges of extracting information from floppy disks U.S. government elections and web archiving at the Spring CNI Meeting Preservation of and access to federally funded scientific data Help launch a digital preservation Q & …
Archive for the ‘Education and Training’ Category (35 posts)
The following is a guest post by John O’Connor, Program Assistant at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. In April, the Office of Strategic Initiatives hosted a discussion panel on the creation of a curriculum for the new National Digital Stewardship Residency. The NDSR is a new partner venture between the Library of …
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Jody DeRidder is the Head of Digital Services at the University of Alabama Libraries in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She is one of 24 Digital Preservation Outreach & Education trainers situated across the U.S. Since she first joined the DPOE Trainer Network, she has shown unbridled enthusiasm for the DPOE program and for digital preservation education in …
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The following is a guest post from Thomas Padilla, Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Program Assistant in the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives. We at the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) program hear from working professionals across the country that digital preservation can be difficult to implement, let alone maintain, given squeezed …
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The following is a guest post by George Coulbourne, Executive Program Officer at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. On February 21, the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) program met with leaders from the Library, Archives, and Academic community to discuss how DPOE will expand on its success in growing a national …
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The following is a guest post from Heather Bowden, Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Program Specialist in the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives. Hot on the heels of the Academy Awards, we would like to present to you, Zoe Friedlander, Systems Librarian for the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture …
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Here in the Library’s digital preservation program, we have become more and more active in the realm of personal digital archiving (and see our related blog posts on the subject here). So it’s of great interest to us when we hear about other such activities happening in libraries around the country. For example, the Kansas …
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Last Thursday I was invited to participate in a discussion organized by the Federal Library and Information Network (FEDLINK) on the future of the Federal government 1410 series. What, pray tell, is the 1410 series and why should we care about it? Turns out that the Office of Personnel Management maintains a master list of …
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