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Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
This is guest post by Hirad Dinavari, reference specialist for the Iranian World Collections, African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress. Watch a video of Hirad Dinavari giving a guided tour of the exhibition “A Thousand Years of the Persian Book.” The exciting thing about working at the Library is that you …
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Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
This is a guest post by Valerie Collins. As part of the National Digital Stewardship Residency DC program, each resident develops and hosts a half-day enrichment session for the cohort and their mentors. The topic is up to the resident, as long as it is on some aspect of digital preservation. For my enrichment session, …
Posted in: Digital Content, NDSR
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
Kim Milai, a retired school teacher, was searching on ancestry.com for information about her great grandfather, Amohamed Milai, when her browser turned up something she had not expected: a page from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America site displaying a scan of the Harrisburg Telegraph newspaper from March 13, 1919. On that page was a story …
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