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Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Emily Reynolds, a 2012 Junior Fellow. As we mentioned in our introductory post last month, the OSI Junior Fellows are working on a project involving a draft digital preservation policy framework. One component of our work is revising a glossary that accompanies the framework. We’ve spent the last …
Posted in: Inside the Library, Internships and Fellowships
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
They’re the red-headed stepchildren of the digital age. They’re neither retro chic (all things being relative, of course) like the server arrays that support “big data,” nor are they as cute as the thumb drives made to look like your favorite Star Wars character (or more oddly, chicken feet). Of what do I speak? The …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Leslie Johnston
Some weeks ago I gave a presentation that I jokingly titled “The Challenges of Preserving Every Digital Format on the Face of the Planet.” Except it’s not really a joke. We often have little or no control over what comes into the Library of Congress Digital Collections, and we manage and preserve a wide variety …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
Martha Anderson and Bill Lefurgy contributed to this story. Twenty years ago, Dr. James Billington hired Laura Campbell to join the Library of Congress as director of Library Distribution Services. Through Campbell’s previous consultation work with the Library, he recognized her great talent. “I was impressed by the organization and precision in the reports she …
Posted in: Inside the Library
Posted by: Erin Engle
The June 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201206.pdf In this issue: The Library of Congress digital preservation blog, The Signal, is a year old A recap of the week-long International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly News from The Signal: Defining the “Big” in Big Data; GeoMAPP and the Future of …
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Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Emily Reynolds and Chelcie Rowell, 2012 Junior Fellows. Every summer, the Library of Congress hosts interns as part of its Junior Fellows program. This year, 38 students from across the country were placed in a variety of library departments. Two fellows—Emily Reynolds and Chelcie Rowell—are working in the …
Posted in: Education and Training, Inside the Library, Internships and Fellowships
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Jimi Jones, Digital Audiovisual Formats Specialist with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. The World Wide Web is a complex and constantly-evolving network of linkages. Maintaining access to web content can be very challenging because content producers can change or remove pages or entire sites at any time. We’ve …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Leslie Johnston
When I wrote my post on the “Library of Congress” as a unit of measure, I expected to receive some feedback. And boy, did I. As expected, I received some new examples: “In less than two years the app has already hosted more than 500 million images — more than 30 times greater than the …
Posted in: Inside the Library
Posted by: Erin Engle
It’s Preservation Week! How are you celebrating it? Attending an event at your local library? Holding an event? Thinking about some of your own personal collections that may need preservation treatment to pass on? Even though our blog focuses on the preservation of digital materials, we are about raising awareness and promoting preservation-related activities. That’s …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Outreach and Events