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Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Emily Reynolds, a 2012 Junior Fellow. Earlier this month, the Board on Research Data and Information held the Symposium on Digital Curation in the Era of Big Data: Career Opportunities and Workforce Requirements. Bringing together digital curation educators and practitioners, the event featured discussions about the skills required …
Posted in: Education and Training, Internships and Fellowships
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: Abbey Potter
This is a guest post from Camille Salas, a summer intern with the Library of Congress. Greetings! I am a graduate student at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies where I am pursuing a master’s degree in Library Science with a concentration in Information and Diverse populations. I hold an undergraduate degree in …
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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: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest blog post by Gloria Gonzalez, a UCLA Library and Information Science graduate student and former NDIIPP Junior Fellow. What exactly is it that we’re aiming to preserve? What is a digital object? My professor, Dr. Jean-François Blanchette, began the second meeting of my digital preservation class with these questions. I …
Posted in: Education and Training, Internships and Fellowships