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Challenges in the Curation of Time Based Media Art: An Interview with Michael Mansfield

Posted by: Trevor Owens

The following interview is a guest post from Jose (Ricky) Padilla, an intern with the NDIIPP program working on issues related to software preservation and the innovation and infrastructure working groups of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance. This time in the Insights Interviews series we get the chance to speak with Michael Mansfield, an associate curator …

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Opportunity Knocks: Library of Congress Invites No-cost Digitization Proposals

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

This is a guest post from Vidya Vish, The Library of Congress Contracting Officer for the Third Party Digitization RFP. The Library’s collections include tens of millions of items  – not just books, but also manuscripts, monographs, serials, newspapers, pamphlets, sound recordings, films, videos, sheet music, photographs, posters, microfilm and maps. Our collections are at …

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Opening Up the National Digital Newspaper Program

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The following is a guest post by David Brunton, a Supervisory Information Technology Specialist in the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives. The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress have partnered to enhance access to historic newspapers for many years with the National Digital Newspaper Program.  A centerpiece of this …

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Nominations Now Open for the 2013 NDSA Innovation Awards

Posted by: Trevor Owens

The National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group is proud to open the nominations for the 2013 NDSA Innovation Awards. As a diverse membership group with a shared commitment to digital preservation, the NDSA understands the importance of innovation and risk-taking in developing and supporting a broad range of successful digital preservation activities. These awards …

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First Aid on the Front Lines: Immediate Training Needs

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The following is a guest post by Jody DeRidder, the Head of Digital Services at the University of Alabama Libraries. Have you been digitizing and managing digital content?  Are you the go-to person in your organization for accessioning digital materials into your special collections, or collecting electronic records for your archives? More than likely, you’ve …

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An Intern Considers the Digital Preservation Challenge, Part 2

Posted by: Bill LeFurgy

The following is a guest post by Jennifer Clark, an NDIIPP intern from the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science. In yesterday’s post, I discussed how my initial ideas about digital preservation changed during my visit with NDIIPP. Today, I consider what I learned about building a socio-technical cyberinfrastructure. In an ever-changing digital …

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Hacking, Making and Library-ating: A Week in the Trenches at SXSW 2013

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

South by Southwest is a marathon. Actually, it’s more like trying to sprint your way through a hot and dusty marathon populated with approximately 60,000 badge-wearing attendees across the Interactive, Film and Music conferences and numerous others in town to bask in the vibrations. In other words, it’s crazy, amazing and discombobulating all at the …

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Preservation Week 2013: Saving Our Cultural Hertiage and Personal Family Collections

Posted by: Erin Engle

Preservation Week 2013 is just over a month away, and we’ve been busy planning Library of Congress events. Every year, we like to mix things up and hold various types of events for our local Washington, DC communities.  This year, we’re pleased to co-host the Rosenzweig Forum on Technology and the Humanities on the evening …

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Why South By Southwest is Important for Libraries, Archives and Museums

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

Digital information professionals are converging on Austin, TX this week for the 26th annual South By Southwest conference and libraries, archives and museums will be there in force. Why is it important that LAMs have a strong presence at SXSW? Once you siphon off the (often overwhelming) branding and marketing noise, the value of SXSW …