MORE 'PRESERVATION' POSTS
U.Va. Library's New Streaming Oral History Project Tells the Legal Story of the Civil Rights Struggle
Academic Libraries, Interviews, Libraries, Preservation, Profiles
|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
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Maps, Resources
|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. […]
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 […]
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
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Preservation
|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 […]
Digital Preservation: "Today’s Digital Documents are Tomorrow’s Dinosaurs"
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, News, Preservation
|From a Washington Times Op/Ed by Rob Hummel and Jimmy Kemp: Digital preservation for the federal government is a monumental task. One of the challenges facing federal workers is that long before the complete set of records is digitized, those workers will be required to start making copies of the records they just created, a […]
New: Report on Open Access and Preservation Policies in Europe
Digital Preservation, Funding, Open Access, Preservation, Publishing
|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. […]
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 […]
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
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, Preservation
|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 […]