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 …
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 …
“Digital Preservation at the Library of Congress: Past, Present and Future,” is an introduction to the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program and the National Digital Stewardship Alliance. The seven-minute video features commentary by: Tim O’Reilly, Founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, Inc. Martha Anderson, Director of NDIIPP Program Management, the Library of Congress …
During Preservation Week 2012, April 22-28, librarians nationwide held events on saving personal digital possessions. These events are evidence of how librarians are stepping up and taking on the responsibility of helping their communities understand digital preservation. Julie Mosbo, chair of the Preservation Week Working Group and preservation librarian at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, …
As choppy and terse as cell-phone texting is, it still qualifies as correspondence. And since we value and save other text correspondence — such as letters and email — it seems natural that we might want to save text messages too. The problem is that saving text messages off a cell phone is not quite …
Listen to the podcast interview. Anne Van Camp, director of the Smithsonian Institution Archives, radiates exuberance about her work. You would think she won the lottery. Van Camp is a historian by training and an archivist by circumstance. She began her career at Chase Manhattan Bank as an archives manager, went on to Stanford’s Hoover …
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 …
The following is a guest post by Sarah Kim from the School of Information, University of Texas at Austin. Between June 2010 and December 2011, I interviewed 20 people about how they manage and preserve their digital documents and I asked about their long-term plans for their digital stuff. The interviewees were from varied backgrounds, …
The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. In a previous blog post, the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group asked: How can the digital stewardship community do more to recognize and encourage innovation in the community? Being composed of a diverse membership …
