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Archive: September 2011 (2 Posts)

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I Love This Meeting: Preservation Storage, in All its Glory

Posted by: Leslie Johnston

One of our annual highlights is The Storage Meeting, which brings together digital preservation practitioners and data storage vendors to have an open discussion.  We held this year’s meeting, Designing Storage Architectures for Preservation Collections,  during September 26-27, in Washington DC. Over 100 archivists and librarians, computer scientists, IT professionals and storage vendors participated.  This …

Posted in: Outreach and Events, Tools and Infrastructure

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Remember When We had Photographs?

Posted by: Leslie Johnston

On a recent trip I visited a funky vintage store to see if anything caught my eye.  While I was easily able to keep myself from buying any jewelry or taxidermy, I came across a number of displays of family photographs available for sale. Not only were there bowls of loose photos, there was a …

Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving