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Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
We had a great time talking with hundreds of people at the National Book Festival about some simple steps to preserve digital memories. This is the third year in a row we have been at the festival, and we continue to hear stories about the challenges people face in managing their personal and family collections. …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Trevor Owens
The following is a guest post from Christie Moffatt an archivist in the History of Medicine Division and Program Manager of the Digital Manuscripts Program at the National Library of Medicine and Jennifer Marill, Chief of the Technical Services Division for NLM. The National Library of Medicine has a mandate to collect, preserve and make accessible the scholarly …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
Over the past year, Howard Besser and Activist Archivists have been doing innovative work that extends beyond the technological aspects of digital preservation to include elements of sociology, cultural sensitivity, local politics, community advocacy and more. Their work centers around a new kind of collection that didn’t exist until recent years: digital content on a massive …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration