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By: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Tess Webre, intern with NDIIPP at the Library of Congress. Upon reading a piece in February’s GQ (yes, I read GQ; sometimes I have to go to the dentist), I came across a piece about a certain celebrity’s extensive archive with nary a mention of the archivist’s name. …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Bill LeFurgy
This is a guest post by Susan Garfinkel, research specialist, Digital Reference Section at the Library of Congress. Electronic literature—past, future and present—is the focus of a free three-day program at the Library of Congress, April 3 to 5. The Electronic Literature Showcase, sponsored by the Library’s Digital Reference Section, includes a variety of events designed …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Jody DeRidder, the Head of Digital Services at the University of Alabama Libraries. Have you been digitizing and managing digital content? Are you the go-to person in your organization for accessioning digital materials into your special collections, or collecting electronic records for your archives? More than likely, you’ve …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Susan Manus
This announcement is from the Library’s Digital Preservation Outreach and Education program. There is only a short time left to apply for the National Digital Stewardship Residency program. The deadline is April 5th, 2013! Interested applicants can apply to the program on the USA Jobs website. The NDSR is a new field experience program developed …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Jennifer Clark, an NDIIPP intern from the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science. I came to NDIIPP expecting to hear that institutions and the public weren’t prioritizing digital preservation, and that the next wave of librarians would need to shout from the rooftops to raise awareness …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Tess Webre, intern with NDIIPP at the Library of Congress Note: there will be photographs of puppies throughout this post. TS Eliot wasn’t wrong. The upcoming April is the cruelest month. The days are grey and cold, the nights are rainy and windy, the temperature fluctuates wildly, and …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Mike Ashenfelder
The collections of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum include recorded accounts from people who experienced one of the most horrific events in history. And, by the very nature of these interviews, the Museum faces a unique challenge: the last of the potential interviewees are aging and dying. Time is running out and opportunities to record …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Jennifer Gavin
Duke Ellington has been famously quoted as saying: “If it sounds good, it is good.” Which brings us to Topic A of today: What’s the greatest scream in rock ‘n’ roll history? In my own mind, it’s a tossup which of these is No. 1 — Janis Joplin’s soul-scraping vocalization at the end of “Piece …
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By: Trevor Owens
The following interview is a guest post from Jose (Ricky) Padilla, an intern with the NDIIPP program working on issues related to software preservation and the innovation and infrastructure working groups of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance. In this installment of the Insights Interviews Series I interview Dr. Leonardo Flores, Professor of English at El …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Bill LeFurgy
We digital archivists warn about the risk of losing data with the assumption that the threat of loss is enough to stir people to action. But while most everyone has their own experience with data loss, people have a way of tucking past pain away rather than remaining hyper-vigilant about something similar happening again. Or …
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