Group of Illinois Academic Libraries Begin Work on “Preserving Digital Objects With Restricted Resources” Project

From The Daily Chronicle (Dekalb, IL):

With the help of a $575,000 grant, a group of university librarians and curators hope to have an answer to a growing problem.
Lynne Thomas, curator of rare books and special collections at Northern Illinois University’s Founders Memorial Library, learned in October that NIU, along with four other universities, secured a grant to study the best practices for storing digital data.
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Thomas said saving digital objects such as PDFs and video files from bit rot is a problem librarians and archivists have been working to solve for years.
But it’s mostly large, well-funded institutions that can afford today’s archiving systems.
Librarians and curators from Chicago State University, Western Illinois University, Illinois Wesleyan University and Illinois State University are joining NIU in a group called Digital Preserving Digital Objects With Restricted Resources.

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