+ Coming Soon: "Pass It On: Personal Archiving Day at the Library of Congress," a Public Event, will be held May 1
The public event will raise awareness and highlight what everyone can do to preserve analog and digital personal and family collections of photos, moving images, re- corded sound and music and personal documents. The Library is holding the event in conjunction with National Preservation Week (May 9-15).
+ Another release in the Digital Preservation Video Series, "Why Digital Preservation is Important for Everyone" Direct to Video
+ Recent news articles about the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative and Birth of the Dot-Com Era Project
+ A report on the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access Symposium, held April 1 in Washington, DC
+ JHOVE2 Prototype released to the digital preservation community
+Read about the e-Depot project at The National Library of the Netherlands
+ Listen to a new podcast in the Library of Congress "Conversations about Digital Preservation" series with Babak Hamidzadeh, director of repository development at the Library of Congress
+ The Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records has developed an automated process to preserve official e-mail records
+ North Carolina Partners share project findings at the ESRI Federal User Conference in Washington, DC
+ Director of Program Management, National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program Martha Anderson will provide a keynote at the 1st International Digital Preservation Interoperability Framework Symposium in Dresden, Germany, April 21-23
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