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Archive: April 2015 (2 Posts)

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Helping Congress Archive Their Personal Digital Files

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

By early December 2014, a Congressional election year, newly elected Members of Congress were preparing for public service as outgoing Members were ending their public service and attending exit briefings. At an event sponsored by the U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress, the December 3rd “Life After Congress” seminar, Robin Reeder, Archivist of the …

Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving, Publications and Resources

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Tracking Digital Collections at the Library of Congress, from Donor to Repository

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

When Kathleen O’Neill talks about digital collections, she slips effortlessly into the info-tech language that software engineers, librarians, archivists and other information technology professionals use to communicate with each other.  O’Neill, a senior archives specialist in the Library of Congress’s Manuscript Division, speaks with authority about topics such as file signatures, hex editors and checksums even …

Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Tools and Infrastructure