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Archive: April 2012 (22 Posts)

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Better Know a Viewshare: Exploring Texas Funeral Records

Posted by: Trevor Owens

In working on the Viewshare project, our free and open tool for creating interfaces for digital cultural heritage collections, I am always excited to see all the interesting views that users are creating. A few weeks ago, Jennifer Brancato digital archivist at East Texas Research Center, Stephen F. Austin State University, created a fascinating view …

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Jody DeRidder and the Spirit of DPOE

Posted by: Heather Bowden

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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Preserving Digital Legislative Information: Wrapping Up the MTSA Project

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

At the beginning of this month we published States of Sustainability: A Review of State Projects funded by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) (PDF), a report written by Christopher A. Lee of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The report provides a succinct overview of our recent work with state …

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Floppy Disks are Dead, Long Live Floppy Disks

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

They lie in wait, silent sentinels from the era when personal computing first burst into our lives. Their secrets are inscrutable to the human eye.  Often they have lived for years–decades even–under rough conditions that challenge their fundamentally delicate constitutions. Floppy disks are both a bane and a blessing to digital preservationists. The blessing part …

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The April 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is Now Available

Posted by: Erin Engle

The April 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201204.pdf In this issue: *Nominations being accepted for the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Awards *How Many Libraries of Congress Does it Take? A look at an unusual unit of measurement *What’s the Value of A Broken Link? *Becoming Digital, Or, What Comes …

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The Challenge of Teaching Personal Archiving

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

The following is a guest post by Ellysa Stern Cahoy, Education & Behavioral Sciences Librarian Instruction Coordinator, Penn State University Libraries. “What’s in your library?” I love to ask this question of the college students that I teach, as they are (whether they realize it or not) continually building their own personal libraries on their …