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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: 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
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. In early October, I began a postgraduate resident-in-study fellowship in the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. I come to LC having received my MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh and having worked on digitization …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Internships and Fellowships
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Gloria Gonzalez, a 2011 Junior Fellow working with NDIIPP. When watching a video online, do you ever wonder how much time it took to create? Or what content was left out? During my time as an intern, I worked on a video about descriptive metadata for personal photographs. …
Posted in: Internships and Fellowships, Personal Archiving, Videos and Podcasts
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Gloria Gonzalez, a 2011 Junior Fellow working with NDIIPP. As August begins, our time as NDIIPP Junior Fellows is coming to an end. The four of us—Victoria Priester, Kristin Snawder, Cristina Bilmanis and myself—were introduced on The Signal at the beginning of June. Since then, we’ve worked on …
Posted in: Education and Training, Internships and Fellowships, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Victoria Priester, a 2011 Junior Fellow working with NDIIPP. During my first week as a Library of Congress Junior Fellow I was given the North Carolina Public Outreach and Education Project. The project’s objective was to send resources and information about personal digital preservation to public libraries, community …
Posted in: Internships and Fellowships, Outreach and Events, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Gloria Gonzalez, a 2011 Junior Fellow working with NDIIPP. The conclusion of May marked a significant event here at the Library of Congress—the arrival of the 2011 Junior Fellow interns. This year there are forty-one Junior Fellows; we spent the past week learning the history of the Library …
Posted in: Education and Training, Inside the Library, Internships and Fellowships