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Digital Preservation Program Adds New Partners - News Releases (Library of Congress)
www.loc.gov | Dec 16, 2011
Twenty-one states, working in four multistate demonstration projects, are today joining the Library of Congress’s National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) in an initiative to catalyze collaborative efforts to preserve important state government information in

History online: Digital archives processes 10,000th image - MiningGazette.com | News, Sports, Jobs,
www.mininggazette.com | Dec 2, 2010
HOUGHTON — Six years after beginning the long and tedious process of scanning images, the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper...

Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation [OCLC]
www.oclc.org | Mar 4, 2010
Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation

Library Makes Awards to Preserve Creative America - News Releases (Library of Congress)
www.loc.gov | Dec 16, 2011
The Library of Congress, through its National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), today announced eight partnerships as part of its new Preserving Creative America initiative to address the long-term preservation of creative content in digital form.

NDIIPP Names New Program Manager - News Releases (Library of Congress)
www.loc.gov | Dec 16, 2011
Martha Anderson was today named director of program management for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP).

Campbell Recognized as Laureate by Computerworld Honors - News Releases (Library of Congress)
www.loc.gov | Dec 16, 2011
Laura E. Campbell, associate librarian for Strategic Initiatives and chief information officer for the Library of Congress, today received the prestigious 2007 EMC Information Leadership Award from the Computerworld Honors Program. The award was presented during the 19th Annual Laureates Medal

Library Teams with Xerox in Digital Test - News Releases (Library of Congress)
www.loc.gov | Dec 16, 2011
As part of the Library of Congress’s mission to ensure that America’s history and heritage are available and accessible for generations to come, the Library and Xerox Corporation are working together on a project to develop better ways to store, preserve and access treasured digital images.

Digital Preservation Newsletter Available - News Releases (Library of Congress)
www.loc.gov | Dec 16, 2011
A monthly online newsletter highlighting the important work that the Library of Congress’s digital preservation program is performing to collect and preserve the nation’s heritage in digital form will launch in March.

Library Partnership Saves Government Sites - News Releases (Library of Congress)
www.loc.gov | Dec 16, 2011
The Library of Congress, the California Digital Library, the University of North Texas Libraries, the Internet Archive and the U.S. Government Printing Office today announced a collaborative project to preserve public United States Government web sites at the end of the current presidential

Library of Congress Project Wins Preservation Award - News Releases (Library of Congress)
www.loc.gov | Dec 16, 2010
The Memento Project, led by researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Old Dominion University, has won the Digital Preservation Award 2010.