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Archive: March 2017 (2 Posts)

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Recommendations for Enabling Digital Scholarship

Posted by: Abbey Potter

Mass digitization — coupled with new media, technology and distribution networks — has transformed what’s possible for libraries and their users. The Library of Congress makes millions of items freely available on loc.gov and other public sites like HathiTrust and DPLA. Incredible resources — like digitized historic newspapers from across the United States, the personal papers …

Posted in: Digital Content, digital scholarship, NDI, Open Research, Tools and Infrastructure, Web Archiving

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Women’s History Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Posted by: Abbey Potter

This is a guest post from Sarah Osborne Bender, Director of the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. I graduated from library school in 2001, just months after Wikipedia was launched. So as a freshly minted information professional, it is no surprise that I fell …

Posted in: At the Museum, Digital Content, digital scholarship, Open Access, Outreach and Events