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Archive: November 2011 (21 Posts)

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Save Our African American Treasures: Houston

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post by Erin Engle, Digital Archivist, NDIIPP. Last weekend, I participated in the Save Our African American Treasures Program at the Houston Public Library. The Treasures Program is a collections and education initiative of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. For the past few years, NMAAHC’s …

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OSI Welcomes New Postgraduate Fellow

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. In early October, I began a postgraduate resident-in-study fellowship in the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. I come to LC having received my MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh and having worked on digitization …

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Photo Sharing Sites as Digital Preservation Tools

Posted by: Susan Manus

The following is a guest post by Barry Wheeler, Digital Projects Coordinator, Office of Strategic Initiatives. The numbers are staggering – an estimated 2.5 billion people in the world have digital cameras!  They take perhaps 3.75 billion pictures each year.  And we love to share those pictures – hundreds of millions of pictures are uploaded …