The Preservation of UCLA Library’s Fantastic Collection of Hebraica and JudaicaThe UCLA Library recently reported that 400 volumes of a collection consisting of over 33,300 volumes, the Cummings Collection of Hebraica and Judaica, is now...
Preservation Press (May 2019)Greetings LIPA members -- mark your calendar! LIPA's membership meeting at the American Association of Law Libraries' Annual Meeting and Conference in Washin...
Access & Preservation Day at RootsTechLast week, I attended Access and Preservation Day, sponsored by ProQuest and FamilySearch, at RootsTech 2018, the largest genealogical conference in the worl...
FDLP Webinar: Knowledge is Power: Assessing Collections for Preservation PlanningThe FDLP Academy is offering a free webinar on assessing collections for preservation planning. The webinar will be held on Wednesday, March 28 from 2-3pm E...
International Digital Preservation Day, 30th November 20172017 is the inaugural year to celebrate International Digital Preservation Day. This year’s theme: Bits Decay: Do Something Today. Held on the last Thursday ...
Web ArchivingDid you know that the Government Publishing Office uses Archive-It for web archiving? Read more about what they do here. LIPA offers a subscription servic...
GPO Webinar on Microfiche PreservationMost of us have sizable collections of microfiche that we wonder what to do with. We know that microfiche can degrade over time, but what should we do about...
Initiatives to Preserve and Protect Federally Produced DataUniversities and other organizations have begun initiatives to support government information accessibility given projected/actual changes in government fund...
Preservation Webinar Series: Part 1, Digital Imaging 101The Government Publishing Office will be hosting a series of webinars on preservation. The first of these will be held on Monday, March 20 from 2-3pm EDT. ...
LIPA at the Digital Library Federation Forum and NDSA’s Digital Preservation 2016Margie Maes, LIPA executive director, attended the 2016 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum in Milwaukee, WI, November 7-9. In January 2016, DLF became th...
Consider becoming a FIPNet Partner!The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) is looking for several types of partners in relation to FIPNet. What is FIPNet? GPO’s Federal Information Preser...
Opportunity for “At Risk” Audio and Audiovisual MaterialsPreservation needs extend beyond paper and microfiche holdings. Do you have any “at risk” audio or audiovisual materials in your collection? The Council o...
Process of PreservationInitial announcement of The Process of Preservation, Nov. 30, 2015 post on A Library With a View (UGA Law Library blog), The project was also referred to as ...
ARSC Guide to Audio PreservationAnyone who is responsible for preserving sound recordings will be interested in the ARSC Guide to Audio Preservation. Available free as a PDF download from t...
Congratulations to the Webby Award-winning Perma.cc!Thanks to Meg Kribble, Research Librarian & Outreach Coordinator at the Harvard Law School Library for sending this great news. What a way to celebrate Prese...
Reliable and Confidential Archiving of U.S. Supreme Court Web CitesThe following is a guest post by Nicholas Taylor, Web Archiving Service Manager for Stanford University Libraries and former Library Technology Specialist fo...
More Preservation resourcesLast month’s blog posts for Preservation Week were interesting and inspiring. Building on this theme, here are some resources to expand your knowledge base i...
Personal Digital Archiving ResourcesRecently I had an opportunity to attend the Personal Digital Archiving 2014 conference co-sponsored by the Library of Congress, the Indiana State Library and...
My Disastrous New Job![Editor’s note: Read the full text of this very instructive article to learn more about the development and role of a disaster plan, initial responses for di...
LSU Celebrates a Year of Preservation ProgressPreservation Week at the LSU Law Library this year focused on looking back at all we have accomplished in a year’s time. In June of 2013 the library hired it...