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Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post from Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. This week, my Library of Congress colleague Abbey Potter and I will participate in ScienceOnline 2012, an international unconference on science and the web. We are both excited to learn more about the interesting and valuable resources scientists, …
Posted in: Outreach and Events
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
It’s time to take stock of the most memorable digital preservation happenings of 2011. This is a challenge, since many organizations around the world have done fine work and a full accounting would be long. Really, really web-unfriendly long. Hence the virtue of the top 10 trope: brevity makes up for ruthless exclusion. In that …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Publications and Resources, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Erin Engle, Digital Archivist, NDIIPP. Last weekend, I participated in the Save Our African American Treasures Program at the Houston Public Library. The Treasures Program is a collections and education initiative of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. For the past few years, NMAAHC’s …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Erin Engle, Digital Archivist, NDIIPP. I recently attended the Best Practices Exchange 2011, held October 20-22 in Lexington, KY. The meeting focuses on the work of state archives and libraries to preserve state government digital information, although practitioners from other kinds of memory organizations are welcome. This was …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
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. I hobnobbed with celebrities in Hollywood recently. And I mean real A-list talent: I got to spend quality time with the archival stars of the moving image world at the Association of …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post from Ellen O’Donnell, Senior Technical Writer, on assignment to the Office of Strategic Initiatives from the National Institutes of Health. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Nevada State Library and Archives. The local history center of the Hartford, Conn., Public Library. These organizations and 21 others involved …
Posted in: Education and Training, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Erin Engle, Digital Archivist, NDIIPP. A man wanted to migrate his dissertation from punch cards. A young girl held a floppy disk for the first time and expressed wonder that it had anything to do with digital information. A woman–the family archivist–wanted to pass her digital collection to …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The 2011 Annual Summer Meeting of DataCite, brought data lovers from several nations to Berkeley, CA, recently. A celebration of access and preservation ensued, with communal sharing of case studies, best practices and ideas for future work. DataCite is an organization with members from national libraries and other organizations from around the world that are …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Erin Engle, Digital Archivist, NDIIPP. Like many here at the Library, we’re busy preparing for the 2011 National Book Festival on the mall in Washington, DC. The festival will take place Saturday, Sept. 24 and Sunday, Sept. 25. The festival now runs over two days and includes more …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Personal Archiving