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Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Strategic Initiatives Manager at Metropolitan New York Library Council, National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group co-chair and a former Fellow in the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. An affordance is a characteristic of an object or thing that supports a specific activity. For …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Leslie Johnston
I had the pleasure of attending and presenting at the 2013 CurateGear meeting held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on January 9, 2013. And what a good experience it was. CurateGear is a somewhat unique experience because it focuses not on presentations, but on demonstrations. LIVE demonstrations. Every presenter gives a …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Trevor Owens
For a while now, Stanford University’s special collections have had the distinct honor of holding “one of the largest historical collections of interactive software in the world.” The Stephen M. Cabrinety Collection in the History of Microcomputing at Stanford University consists of several thousands of pieces of computer hardware and software. At a recent advisory …
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