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"2 ½ days of instruction on basics and best practices for creating good digital objects, collections, and initiatives." --
This looks fantastic. How I wish I could attend!
http://www.nedcc.org/preservation-training/conferences/digital-directions/

Digital Directions 2014 — NEDCC The Northeast Document Conservation Center specializes in paper and book conservation. NEDCC performs conservation treatment for photographs, books, prints, documents, maps, and globes. NEDCC’s professional conservators also treat architectural plans, parchment, papyrus, wallpaper, and works of art…

Internet Archive's San Francisco Scanning Center destroyed by a fire. Luckily most of the hard copies were offsite, and of the physical items in the Center, half had been digitized. But still, what a loss. It's something all museums, libraries, and archives must deal with-- the fear of fire destroying one-of-a-kind materials. http://blog.archive.org/2013/11/06/scanning-center-fire-please-help-rebuild/

Scanning Center Fire — Please Help Rebuild | Internet Archive Blogs This morning at about 3:30 a.m. a fire started at the Internet Archive’s San Francisco scanning center. The good news is that no one was hurt and no digital data was lost. Our main building was not affected except for damage to one electrical run. This power issue caused us to lose power to some…

STASH resource -- Strorage Techniques for Art, Science, and History collections.

What an interesting story!

Ninestars and State and University Library, Denmark sign historic digitisation deal to digitise 32 million historical newspaper pages in 2014-2016, in one of the largest digitisation initiatives in Europe

BANGALORE, SEPTEMBER 10, 2013: Ninestars Information Technologies Ltd., a leading digital content solutions provider, announced today that it has been selected by The State and University Library, Aarhus, Denmark for the digitisation of 32 million Danish newspaper pages. The digitisation project, one of the largest of its kind in the industry, has come about partly on the basis of a special appropriation under the Danish Budget Law, and it has a total grant of DKK 23 million.

More at this link: http://ninestars.in/press-release.html

http://ninestars.in/press-release.html

Very interesting blog post about managing fragile photo collections! --

Kent Theater Photos Rehousing Project- The University of Iowa Libraries Friday, August 2, 2013 Submitted by Lindsay Shettler The theatre photographs from the Frederick W. Kent Collection of Photographs are currently being stabilized, digitized, and rehoused for Special Collections. The theater […]

Great info!

You Say You Want a Resolution: How Many DPI/PPI is Too Much? | The Signal: Digital Preservation You Say You Want a Resolution: How Many DPI/PPI is Too Much?. A blog post at "The Signal: Digital Preservation" on 2013-07-16.

I'd love to take this class!

Starting Right: Introduction to Digital Project Management Planning This class is taught in two, two-hour sessions over the course of two days. Over the two days we will cover: Questions to ask before you begin, a discussion of why you are starting a digital project, how to define your audience. We will also discuss questions of intellectual property, how to accept…

What an exciting story!

T160K: Manuscripts in Exile In 2012, under threat from fundamentalist rebels, a team of archivists, librarians, and brave couriers evacuated an irreplaceable trove of manuscripts from Timbuktu at great personal risk. The manuscripts have been saved from immediate destruction, but the danger is not over. A massive archival effo...

The Digital Public Library is open for patrons today! Check it out!

http://dp.la/

If you have some delicate family collections - photos, documents, etc - the NEDCC has some great tips for storing them properly. Check it out! http://www.nedcc.org/resources/resources.php

Northeast Document Conservation Center — Resources: Private and Family Collections Libraries and historical organizations are often asked for advice on preservation by patrons and members. To meet this need, Northeast Document Conservation Center has developed a list of helpful hints for preserving family documents and memorabilia:

A short article about scanning paper clutter to get it out of your house. Includes info on the Fujitsu ScanSnap, a really small little scanner that also OCRs text, making all documents keyword searchable!

http://unclutterer.com/2007/04/20/paper-clutter-begone-part-1/

Scanning documents to reduce paper clutter | Unclutterer To rid our home of the unnecessary papers, we invested in the Fujitsu ScanSnap (available for the Mac and PC) and scanned all of the papers that weren't vital for us to have in paper form.

Just met with a new client -- a local non profit called Fight the Inferno. It is an organization devoted to HIV/AIDS services and education on Chicago's West Side. We spent a couple of hours working on the founder's computer and it was good. So happy to be involved with this organization!