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Ask the Recommending Officer: The Civil War Sesquicentennial Web Archive

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke,  Web Archiving Team Lead at the Library of Congress. As I’ve written about before, LC takes a selective approach when archiving the web. Selection of sites is not something we automate; Recommending Officers (or, “ROs” in LC lingo), do this work. Recommending materials for addition to …

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It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like… Election Archiving Season!

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead. The United States national elections are a year away, but the Library of Congress is already busy archiving presidential campaign websites and preparing to archive House and Senate campaign sites and more starting in March 2012. This actually isn’t the earliest we’ve …

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