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WITNESS: Digital Preservation (in Plain Language) as a Tool for Justice

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

Some of you information professionals may have experienced incidents where, in the middle of a breezy conversation, you get caught off guard  by a question about your work (“What do you do?”) and you struggle to come up with a straightforward, clear answer without losing the listener’s attention or narcotizing them into a stupor with …

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The Voyage of “The Library of Congress” Motion Picture

Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder

“The Library of Congress,” a 20-minute motion picture from the 1940s, is not only a loving homage to the Library, rich with Hollywood production values, but it is also associated with a few significant nodes in history: World War II, the creation of the Library’s motion picture archives and the population of cyberspace with cultural …