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Posted by: Erin Engle
The following is a guest post by Samantha Abrams, an intern for the Web Archiving Team at the Library of Congress. As a library school graduate student, I developed an interest in archives and born-digital objects (content pulled from floppy disks, web pages, Tweets, and on) but I lack practical, professional experience working with these …
Posted in: Inside the Library, Web Archiving
Posted by: Abbey Potter
Newspapers are some of the most-used collections at libraries. They have been carefully selected and preserved and represent what is often referred to as “the first draft of history.” Digitized historical newspapers provide broad and rich access to a community’s past, enabling new kinds of inquiry and research. However, these kinds of resources are at …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events, Web Archiving
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Lead Information Technology Specialist on the Web Archiving Team, Library of Congress. Recently the Library of Congress launched a significant amount of new Web Archive content on the Library’s Web site, as a part of a continued effort to integrate the Library’s Web Archives into the …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Web Archiving
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
This article is being co-published on the Teaching With the Library of Congress blog and was written by Butch Lazorchak and Cheryl Lederle. If you believe the Web (and who doesn’t believe everything they read on the Web?), it boastfully celebrated its 25th birthday last year. Twenty-five years is long enough for the first “children …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Publications and Resources, Tools and Infrastructure, Web Archiving
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Nora Ohnishi, a former intern with the Web Archiving Team at the Library of Congress. My name is Nora Ohnishi, and I will graduate with my Masters in Library and Information Science from the University of North Texas in May. I began working for The Library of Congress …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Internships and Fellowships, Partners and Collaboration, Web Archiving
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post from Michael Neubert, a Supervisory Digital Projects Specialist at the Library of Congress. In a blog post about six months ago I wrote about how the Library of Congress web archiving program was starting to harvest “general” internet news sites such as Daily Kos, Huffington Post and Townhall.com, as …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Partners and Collaboration, Web Archiving
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post from Michael Neubert, a Supervisory Digital Projects Specialist at the Library of Congress. Recently, I talked with Kristen Regina, Head of Archives and Special Collections at the Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens in northwest Washington and Jaime McCurry, Digital Assets Librarian, about workflows and issues for web archiving, an …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration, Web Archiving
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post from Michael Neubert, a Supervisory Digital Projects Specialist at the Library of Congress. “Publishing of federal information on government web sites is orders of magnitude more than was previously published in print. Having GPO, NARA and the Library, and eventually other agencies, working collaboratively to acquire and provide access …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Web Archiving
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Karl-Rainer Blumenthal, National Digital Stewardship Resident at the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC). A tipping point from traditional to emergent digital technologies in the regular conduct of art historical scholarship threatens to leave unprepared institutions and their researchers alike in a “digital black hole.” NYARC–the partnership of …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training, Web Archiving