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Posted by: Erin Engle
The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead. Here is the third in my series of “Ask the Recommending Officer” posts. This time I feature a conversation with Atish Chatterjee about the Indian General Elections 2009 Web Archive. Who are you and what is your job at the Library of …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Interviews, Web Archiving
Posted by: Martha Anderson
The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead. The second in my series of “ask the Recommending Officer” posts features a conversation with Cassy Ammen, who shares her experience in helping to build the September 11 Web Archive. Who are you, and what’s your job at the Library of Congress? …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Web Archiving
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 …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Web Archiving
Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate
Since the 1930s, the Handbook of Latin American Studies has documented scholarship on Latin America and the Caribbean. In this interview, Tracy North describes how that long-standing mission now extends to web archiving, ensuring long-term access to web-based research materials. The conversation discusses the collaborative process of selecting websites to archive and the behind-the-scenes work involved in developing the collection.
Posted in: Digital Preservation, Interviews, Web Archiving
Posted by: Liz Holdzkom
The Library of Congress has published the updated 2025-2026 Recommended Formats Statement. Updates have been made to preferred and accepted formats across multiple content categories, and are captured in a Change Log.
Posted in: Digital Content, Digital Preservation, Formats, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate
In this interview, Amber Paranick and Kelly Bennett discuss their work on the Mass Communications Archive, a collection that documents how media is created, distributed, and consumed in the digital age. Drawing on their expertise as reference librarians, they explain how they navigated challenges in scope and selected content that complements the Library’s more traditionally …
Posted in: Digital Preservation, Interviews, Web Archiving
Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate
Earlier this year, the Library of Congress and our web harvest vendor MirrorWeb presented research on website archivability at the 2024 Web Archiving Conference at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris. The presentation was part of a panel called “Can we capture this?’: Assessing Website Archivability Beyond Trial and Error,” which was moderated by Martin Klein (Pacific …
Posted in: Digital Preservation, Interviews, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure, Web Archiving
Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate
Have you ever wondered what exactly is web archiving? How the Library select which websites to preserve? Or how you would find and search the web archives? The Web Archiving Team’s Senior Digital Collection Specialists gathered to answer these questions and more in a live webinar during the Preservation Directorate’s celebration of Preservation Week. If …
Posted in: Digital Preservation, Web Archiving
Posted by: Liz Holdzkom
The Digital Content Management Section of the Library of Congress has refined a workflow for the large-scale acquisition of and access to open access books. In this post, read about our process and challenges faced along the way.
Posted in: Digital Content, Open Access