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Archive: May 2014 (2 Posts)

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The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

“Over here,” said Matt Kirschenbaum as he led past the researchers’ desks toward the far side of the room. He stopped and beamed as he pointed toward the corner and said, “Mysty.” “Mysty” – weighing about 200 pounds and shaped like a small refrigerator — is an IBM MT/ST, the first product ever marketed as …

Dozens of squares, each with its own individual color or shade, lined up in rows and columns

Digital Archiving: Making It Personal at the Public Library

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

The following is a guest post from Samantha Thomason,  web developer at the Central Rappahannock Regional Library in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and chair of the Virginia Library Association’s Local History, Genealogy and Oral History Forum.  Because personal digital archiving covers so much territory — from scanning to cloud storage to estate planning — it is easy to …