The following is a guest post by Tess Webre, an intern with NDIIPP at the Library of Congress. My interest in digital preservation began many years before I started my master’s degree. I was working on a long and arduous project and located a very helpful looking resource created in the 1980s at a local …
Did you know that John Wilkes Booth was involved in an incident at Lincoln’s second inauguration, in March of 1865? It was seen as a mere scuffle at the time, but significant later on, as it happened about six weeks before Booth assassinated President Lincoln on that fateful day in April, 1865. The whole fascinating …
The following is a guest post by Barry Wheeler, Digital Projects Coordinator, Office of Strategic Initiatives In part 1 of this blog series, we saw that manufacturers claimed “resolution” is based on the number of steps per inch a small motor moves the scanner assembly (the rows) and the number of tiny sensors per inch …