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Saving the Date: Exploring Calendar and Scheduling Formats

Posted by: Kate Murray

Each January, my family picks out a new wall calendar to hang in our kitchen. Its main appeal these days is nostalgic decoration since we no longer use it to write down our appointments or important dates. Like many people, we now rely on electronic calendar and scheduling tools built into personal information manager software …

Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Publications and Resources

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Shaking the Email Format Family Tree

Posted by: Kate Murray

Recently, we’ve started to add email formats to the Sustainability of Digital Formats website. Eventually, when we get a more robust collection, we’d like to split them out into a separate content category but for now, they (mostly) are categorized with their closest cousin, the Textual Content family.  Our genealogical research is still very much …

Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library

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Connecting Communities: FADGI Still Image Working Group’s Impact on the Library of Congress and Beyond

Posted by: Kate Murray

The following is a guest post from Carla Miller of the Library of Congress. This is the second in a two-part update on the recent activities of the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative. This article describes the work of the Still Image Working Group. The first article describes the work of the Audio-Visual Working Group. While …

Posted in: FADGI, Inside the Library