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Chronicling the Creation, Distribution, and Consumption of Media: Inside the Mass Communications Web Archive

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 …

Preserving a History of Digital Mapmaking: Inside the Geospatial Software and File Formats Documentation Web Archive

Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate

In this interview, Tim St. Onge and Meagan Snow explain how web archiving is preserving documentation essential to understanding the evolution of modern cartography. They outline the motivations behind the Geospatial Software and File Formats Documentation Web Archive, describe their curatorial approach, and highlight the collection’s value for both current and future researchers. This is …

Documenting Industry in a Changing World: Inside the Industry Associations Web Archive

Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate

In this interview, Natalie Burclaff describes the Industry Associations Web Archive and the variety of content it preserves. She also offers insights into the challenges of curating the collection and explains why it serves as a crucial resource for understanding how industry has evolved and responded to global events. This is part of a series …

Archiving an Island Nation: The Maldives Government Web Archive

Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate

In this interview, Charlotte Giles discusses the Maldives Government Web Archive — how it was created, what it preserves, and why it is a significant addition to the Library’s Asian Division. She shares examples of how the archive captures the unique perspective of an island nation and explains why collecting materials from the Maldives is …

Pedro's headshot. Pedro has brown hair and is wearing a cream shirt with a dark tie.

It’s All About the Process: An Interview with Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez

Posted by: Carlyn Osborn

Today’s blog post is an interview with the Signal’s own Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez, here at the Library of Congress. You can read other interviews with digital collections staff here. Carlyn: Hi Pedro, could you tell us a bit about what you do in the Digital Services Directorate? How would you explain your job to someone outside the Library …

TRANSCRIPT: Some time since a tenant of her for 3 years- was relating something she had told him- when I said and you knew she was lying when she said it= "yes-" and you believed her.= "yes"= - - why? "Why? because I couldn't believe any body could lie so- - That's "Mabelle"- Now S.E.B. - sent me please those 7 pages- indicate by marking any part or parts you might not want used and will copy, omitting same- on old blank note book paper which I used at that time, of which I have sufficient supply and it will be my privilege, not to say how I obtained the same-- which I would have had she not taken possession of same to destroy my evidence against her Lies- her treachery- her slandering of the name of Clara Barton in ways unbelievable and which I would not repeat on paper-

Volunteer Vignette: History is a Living Thing

Posted by: Carlyn Osborn

In today’s post, Abby Shelton interviews a By the People volunteer, Justin Kern, who serves as the Division Communications Director for the American Red Cross. By the People is a crowdsourced transcription program launched in 2018 at the Library of Congress. Volunteer-created transcriptions are used to make digitized collections more accessible and discoverable on loc.gov.  Abby: How did you hear about By …

“Can We Capture This?”: An Interview on Website Archivability

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 …