Audio: "Should the Library of Congress Become a National Digital Hard-Drive?"
Jeff Young from The Chronicle of Higher Education talks with Martha Anderson the director of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIPP) at the Library of Congress.
From a Text Blurb:
The nation’s library now archives all public Twitter messages – what’s next? The Tech Therapy team talks with Martha Anderson, director of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress about when the Twitter archive will be available to researchers, and what she sees as the biggest challenges for librarians in the information age.
The conversation runs about 22 minutes.
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Filed under: Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Preservation
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.