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Reminder: Preservation Week Begins on April 21st

April 3, 2012 by Gary D. Price

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ALA sent out a reminder news release today about Preservation Week that begins on April 21st. Preservation Week is sponsored by an number of organizations including ALCTS, LC, IMLS, SAA, AIC, and American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. From April 22-28, libraries across America will celebrate Preservation Week @ your library. Themed […]

Library Treasures: Brown University Library Discovers Exceptionally Rare Engraved Print by Paul Revere

March 27, 2012 by Gary D. Price

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From Brown U. Library: The Preservation Department of Brown University Library has discovered an exceptionally rare engraved print by Paul Revere. As long as two hundred years ago, Solomon Drowne, Brown University Class of 1773 and a professor in the early Brown University Medical School, tucked a little something into one of his books, The […]

Mark Sweeney Named New Director of Preservation at the Library of Congress

March 19, 2012 by Gary D. Price

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From LC: Mark Sweeney, chief of the Humanities and Social Sciences Division at the Library of Congress, has been named director of Preservation, succeeding Dianne van der Reyden, who will retire at the end of March. Sweeney begins work in his new position on April 2, 2012. Roberta I. Shaffer, associate librarian for Library Services, […]

Article: “An Overview of Web Archiving”

March 16, 2012 by Gary D. Price

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Title An Overview of Web Archiving Author Jinfang Niu University of South Florida Source D-Lib Magazine (March/April 2012) Volume 18, Number 3/4 Abstract This overview is a study of the methods used at a variety of universities, and international government libraries and archives, to select, acquire, describe and access web resources for their archives. Creating […]

The Internet Archive’s “Physical Archive” Profiled in New York Times

March 4, 2012 by Gary D. Price

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From the NY Times Article, “In a Flood Tide of Digital Data, an Ark Full of Books”: Forty-foot shipping containers stacked two by two are stuffed with the most enduring, as well as some of the most forgettable, books of the era. Every week, 20,000 new volumes arrive, many of them donations from libraries and […]

Three Recent Recorded Webinars (Free) From ASERL: Introduction to Digital Preservation

March 3, 2012 by Gary D. Price

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Made available (free) online by the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL): A series of three webinars led by Jody DeRidder (Head of Digital Services, University of Alabama Libraries) for people looking to preserve digital content for their organization. Content is derived from the Library of Congress’s Digital Preservation Outreach & Education (DPOE) program. This […]

UCLA Library Announces $3.4 Million Grant From Arcadia Fund to Launch International Digitizing Ephemera Project (Incl. Social Media)

March 1, 2012 by Gary D. Price

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From the UCLA Newsroom: The UCLA Library has received a grant of $3.4 million from the Arcadia Fund to launch an initiative to digitize, preserve and provide broad public access to print items, images, and multimedia and social networking resources produced in the Middle East. Increasingly, the day-to-day reality of current events in the Middle […]

Full Text: A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation

February 20, 2012 by Gary D. Price

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Title A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation (2010) K. Skinner and M. Schultz, Editors Source Educopia Institute Authored by members of the MetaArchive Cooperative, A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation is the first of a series of volumes describing successful collaborative strategies and articulating specific new models that may help cultural memory organizations work together […]

IMLS-Funded Research Yields New Information on Paper Stability, New Web Site With Complete Details

February 20, 2012 by Gary D. Price

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From UpNext: By Tim Barrett Director, University of Iowa Center for the Book Paper Facilities Research on paper permanence may seem a bit odd in the age of digital scanning and the internet, but there are a number of reasons why paper remains very important to future generations. Paper originals that can be accessed without […]

U.Va. Library’s New Streaming Oral History Project Tells the Legal Story of the Civil Rights Struggle

February 16, 2012 by Gary D. Price

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From U. Va. Today: In March 1985, civil rights leader and former Howard University president James M. Nabrit did an extended interview for an oral history project led by then-University of Virginia English professor William Elwood. Cigar in hand, Nabrit – a former NAACP lawyer who worked with Thurgood Marshall and others to fight segregation […]

South Dakota: State Archives Going Digital

February 10, 2012 by Gary D. Price

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From The Argus Leader (Sioux Falls, SD): The South Dakota State Historical Society’s Archives has gone digital. The State Archives, in the Cultural Heritage Center in Pierre, collects, preserves, and makes available manuscript collections, South Dakota state, county and local government records, photographs, maps and other archival materials which have permanent historical and research value. […]

Washington University Libraries Join HathiTrust Partnership

January 26, 2012 by Gary D. Price

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From a News Release: Washington University Libraries has joined HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries to preserve and provide access to the published record in a digital form, announced Shirley K. Baker, Washington University’s vice chancellor for scholarly resources and dean of University Libraries. WUSTL, which joined HathiTrust Jan. 1, 2012, now […]

Canada: University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University Welcome $1.7M Videomatica Film Collection

January 16, 2012 by Gary D. Price

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From UBC: An exceptional film collection valued at $1.7 million will be housed and preserved by the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. Videomatica – a long-loved video rental store that opened in 1983 and specialized in rare and esoteric titles – is donating the bulk of 28,000 DVDs, 4,000 VHS titles and […]

Rare Books Staff From American U. of Cairo Help Restore Burned Institut d’Égypte Documents

December 27, 2011 by Gary D. Price

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From the News@AUC Post: The Rare Books and Special Collections Library and Archives (RBSCL) sent nine of its staff members last week to assist Dar El Kutub [Egyptian National Library] in the salvaging of books and documents damaged during the recent fire at the Institut d’Egypte. These volunteers, who are experienced in handling rare and […]

New: Report on Open Access and Preservation Policies in Europe

December 21, 2011 by Gary D. Price

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Via a LIBER Blog Post Summary: The ERAC (European Research Area Committee) on National Open Access and Preservation Policies has published a report called “Analysis of a Questionnaire to the European Research Area Committee”. The report shows that open access is backed by a growing number of universities, research centres and funding agencies across Europe. […]

Announcing the bwFLA-Project (Baden-Wuerttemberg Functional Longterm Archiving and Access)

December 15, 2011 by Gary D. Price

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From the Open Planets Foundation: The bwFLA project (Baden-Wuerttemberg Functional Longterm Archiving and Access) is a two-year state sponsored project with the goal of defining and providing a practical implementation of archival workflows for the rendering of digital objects (i.e. easily accessed by users) in its original environment (i.e. application). [Clip] To maintain the accessibility […]

Early Sound Recordings by Alexander Graham Bell in 1880s Played Back With New Technology

December 13, 2011 by Gary D. Price

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UPDATE: You can now listen to the recordings online via the Library of Congress. Direct to Recordings ||| Additional Info via Library of Congress The team has successfully submitted six discs—all experimental recordings made by Volta—to the sound recovery process known as IRENE/3D (Image, Reconstruct, Erase Noise, Etc.), a process developed by Berkeley Lab in […]

A Literature Review: What Exactly Should We Preserve? How Scholars Address This Question and Where is the Gap

December 8, 2011 by Gary D. Price

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New online via arXiv. Title: A Literature Review: What Exactly Should We Preserve? How Scholars Address This Question and Where is the Gap by Jyue Tyan Low This review addresses the question of what exactly should we preserve, and how the digital preservation community and scholars address this question. The paper first introduces the much-abused-term […]