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Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Tess Webre, an intern with NDIIPP at the Library of Congress I love dumb magazines. Love ‘em. The more photoshopped the front cover, the more vapid the articles, the more stereotypical the content, the more I love them. In college, while I was spelling woman with a y …
Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Erin Engle
Are you concerned with saving your personal digital information, like your documents, emails, digital photos, home digital videos and social media accounts? If you haven’t given this a moment’s thought, rest assured. There is a community of interested individuals who are addressing the challenges and solutions of preserving personal digital archives. Personal Digital Archiving 2013 …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Erin Engle
At our personal digital archiving events, we get various questions about scanning family photos, slides, negatives and film. Questions like: What type of scanner should I use? What resolution should I use? How can I scan negatives? While we’ve focused on developing tips and resources for saving personal digital materials created with software and hardware, …
Posted in: Personal Archiving
Posted by: Erin Engle
The January 2013 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201301.pdf In this issue: Why does digital preservation matter? Learn about some key dates in the history of digitizing texts. A call to action to preserve science discourse on the Web. Find out what resolution to scan at when using your personal scanner. …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Personal Archiving, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
With 2012 safely behind us, let us praise some of the best things that happened last year in digital preservation. This is something of a tradition for us, as we have previously run down a list for 2011 and 2010. I cast a wide net and mustered my objectivity in in picking activities with the …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Personal Archiving, Publications and Resources, Tools and Infrastructure