This is a guest post by Barrie Howard. The Library of Congress’s Digital Preservation Outreach and Education program delivered a train-the-trainer workshop on June 10, providing professional development in digital preservation to library professionals from Kentucky and West Virginia. The workshop was held at Northern Kentucky University and sponsored by the State Assisted Academic Library …
This is a guest post by Eckerd College faculty David Gliem, associate professor of Art History, and Nancy Schuler, librarian and assistant professor of Electronic Resources, Collection Development and Instructional Services. On June 3rd, a meeting at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, brought key experts and College departments together to begin plans for the …
This is a guest post by Julia Kim, archivist in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The American Folklife Center just celebrated 40 years since it was founded by Congressional mandate. But its origins far predate 1976; its earlier incarnation was the Archive of Folk Song,which was founded in 1928 and was …