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You’ve been hearing about this project for years, here’s your chance to finally see it! It’s not officially published yet - that’s happening in early Feb. In the meantime, take a look.

I highly recommend this article. Stephen Abrams clearly explicates several of my own personal beliefs and expounds on many others.

Role of Long Term Storage in Digital Collections: From Digital Dark Ages to Digital Renaissance

Store - How should digital content be stored for the long term?

Vicki Gruzynski- Organizer/Presenter Laura Osterhout- Rochester Regional Library Council Erin Rhodes- Colby College, Special Collections

Presentation Slides and handouts

• Storage Introduction, Storage Slides
• Storage Outline
• Storage Handout
• Webinar Video. You will need to have Windows Media software on your computer to view the recording
• Participant Evaluation

Digital Dark Ages to Digital Renaissance: Art of Selecting Digital Content to Preserve

1. Identify - What digital content do you have 2. Select - what portion of the content will be preserved

Sarah Rhodes, National Geographic Library Brenda J. Miller, Hartford Public Library

• Presentation slides available after webinar will be posted on DTEAM DBlog
• Audio presentation available in about a week
• DPOE-Library of Congress Digital Preservation Outreach Education

Webinar will:

1. Provide conceptual foundation for your digital program
2. Help develop inventory to your digital content
3. Help document your selection policies

Thanks to everyone who attended today’s XTF training! I’m posting some of the tips and tricks I shared today, as well as a link to our development server below:

You can search across the RAC’s archival materials, books, DVDs, VHS and microfilm holdings from the home page or the Advanced Search page.

You can search within an archival collection by selecting that collection and then using the “search within this collection” in the navigation bar.