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Archive: October 2012 (21 Posts)

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Developing a Health and Medicine Blogs Collection at the U.S. National Library of Medicine

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 …

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Activist Archivists and Digital Preservation

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 …