Next week the University of Maryland will host Personal Digital Archiving 2013 (Erin Engle wrote about it on Tuesday). This is the fourth PDA conference since its inception in 2010 at the Internet Archive and its significance — for both cultural institutions and the general public — increases every year. It is the one major conference …
Quick quiz: Is the employment outlook for librarians growing or shrinking? The answer depends on what you call a “library job.” According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the job outlook for librarians is “slower than average,” with a projected rate of change in employment this decade of 7%, slower than the 14% average growth …
The following is a guest post by Chelcie Rowell, 2012 Junior Fellow. At the opening keynote of DigitalPreservation 2012, Anil Dash exhorted the digital preservation community to build bridges to other groups, from the tech community to everyday people. Just a few days later, Emily Reynolds and I got to practice talking about digital preservation with …
The following is a guest post by Keri A. Myers, a volunteer archivist with NDIIPP. Let’s face it: most of us fall short of perfection when it comes to managing our personal digital materials. We do things like download personal photos to our computers and promise ourselves that we will come back later and give …
The following is a guest post by Erin Engle, Digital Archivist, NDIIPP. Last weekend, I participated in the Save Our African American Treasures Program at the Houston Public Library. The Treasures Program is a collections and education initiative of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. For the past few years, NMAAHC’s …
The following is a guest post by Erin Engle, Digital Archivist, NDIIPP. I recently attended the Best Practices Exchange 2011, held October 20-22 in Lexington, KY. The meeting focuses on the work of state archives and libraries to preserve state government digital information, although practitioners from other kinds of memory organizations are welcome. This was …
The following is a guest post by Erin Engle, Digital Archivist, NDIIPP. A man wanted to migrate his dissertation from punch cards. A young girl held a floppy disk for the first time and expressed wonder that it had anything to do with digital information. A woman–the family archivist–wanted to pass her digital collection to …
The following is a guest post by Erin Engle, Digital Archivist, NDIIPP. Like many here at the Library, we’re busy preparing for the 2011 National Book Festival on the mall in Washington, DC. The festival will take place Saturday, Sept. 24 and Sunday, Sept. 25. The festival now runs over two days and includes more …
The following is a guest post by Erin Engle, Digital Archivist, NDIIPP. When my family and friends ask what I do at the Library of Congress, I invariably get questioning looks when I use the phrase “digital preservation.” The looks turn even more quizzical when I talk about my work managing a project focusing on …
The following is a guest post by Erin Engle, Digital Archivist, NDIIPP. On “The Signal,” we’ve talked about different aspects of digital preservation – like here and here – and we’ve talked about geospatial information and digital mapping. In this post, I’d like to talk about the resource NDIIPP is helping to develop (and the …