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Minitex News articles tagged with "Digital Preservation" (31):

Upcoming ALCTS e-Forum: Life-cycle Management of Digital Assets

The ALCTS e-Forum: Life-cycle Management of Digital Assets will take place April 18-19, 2017. This e-Forum is free and open to everyone. Each day, discussion begins at 9:00 a.m. and ends and 5:00 p.m.(central). Here's the full description and information about how to register.

Preservation Week: Bringing awareness to your community

Preservation Week (April 23-29) is an opportunity to bring awareness and connect your community to preservation events, activities, and resources. Visit the ALA website to find resources that can help with saving and caring for items, disaster recovery, and how to get started with preservation. There are also resources (event planner, logos, bookmarks, posters, handouts, etc) available to help plan a Preservation Week event at your library. Two free webinars will be offered live, or view recordings of any of the past Preservation Week webinars.  

Power to the People: Personal Digital Archiving Labs

At the Digital Library Federation Forum session Power to the People: Personal Digital Archiving Labs, four different organizations spoke about their personal digital archiving programs and projects. Organizations represented in the session included Madison, Wisconsin Public Library, DC Public Library, the New York City XFR Collective, and the iSchool at UW-Madison.

Minitex virtual course offered on digital preservation

While many of the traditional resources found in libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions--books, photographs, objects--can survive for years with no intervention, digital content is much more fragile. Managing it requires ongoing care and preservation activities to ensure continued access far into the future. This virtual series--based on the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) Program curriculum--introduces fundamental concepts for managing your digital content over time through a series of six modules delivered in two half-day sessions. 

Managing Digital Content Over Time: An Introduction to Digital Preservation

This online training series--based on the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) Program curriculum--introduces fundamental concepts for managing your digital content over time through a series of six modules delivered in three sessions.

Results of feedback on future Minitex cataloging and digital skills training

Recently we asked for your feedback on what cataloging and digital skills topics are needed and of interest to libraries and other cultural heritage organizations in the region.

DigiPres Commons: A helpful portal for staff who manage, protect, and preserve digital content

Are you aware of DigiPres Commons, a community owned web portal of digital preservation resources? I recently visited and found all sorts of excellent resources. Here's a brief recap of what you will find on the site.

Towards preservation: Timely report on managing electronic records

For any institution that needs to preserve and provide access to electronic records for the long-term, the following report may be helpful as you develop local workflows and documentation for managing this type of content.

Follow the Latest Library Trends with NISO Webinars & Virtual Conferences

To stay on top of current issues and trends in the library world, consider viewing one or more of the National Information Standards Organization's (NISO) webinars and virtual conferences.

Introduction to Digital Preservation Webinar Recording Available

Minitex hosted a webinar recently to introduce the concept of digital preservation and all the issues that come with it.