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 …
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 …
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 …