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Archive: June 2012 (2 Posts)

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Karen Cariani Talks about Public Television Archives and the NDSA Infrastructure Working Group

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

Listen to podcast. Karen Cariani’s background is very different than most of her colleagues in the NDSA Infrastructure working group, and that difference helps stretch both the group and her beyond their comfort zones, to everyone’s benefit. Cariani, director of Boston’s WGBH Media Library and Archives, has worked at WGBH since 1984 where she manages …

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Digital Preservation Pioneer: Laura Campbell

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

Martha Anderson and Bill Lefurgy contributed to this story. Twenty years ago, Dr. James Billington hired Laura Campbell to join the Library of Congress as director of Library Distribution Services. Through Campbell’s previous consultation work with the Library, he recognized her great talent. “I was impressed by the organization and precision in the reports she …