Archive: December 2013 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Mike Ashenfelder; (Year) 2013; (Month) December

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Steve Puglia, Digital Preservation Pioneer

December 18, 2013

Steven Puglia, manager of Digital Conversion Services at the Library of Congress, died peacefully on December 10, 2013 after a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer. Puglia had a profound effect on his colleagues here in Washington and worldwide, and there is a great outpouring of grief and appreciation in the wake of his passing. The …

Posted in: FADGI, Inside the Library, Tools and Infrastructure

Digital Preservation Pioneer: Gary Marchionini

December 3, 2013

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

In 1971, Gary Marchionini had an epiphany about educational technology when he found himself competing with teletype machines for his students’ attention. Marchionini was teaching mathematics at a suburban Detroit junior high school the year that the school acquired four new teletype machines. The machines were networked to a computer, so a user could type …

Posted in: Partners and Collaboration

Refined by: (Author) Mike Ashenfelder; (Year) 2013; (Month) December