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Cultural heritage professionals – museum curators, museum professionals, archivists and librarians – work with their specialized knowledge to prioritize the needs of their collections. Preservation managers draw on experts in climate control, fire…

The revised edition of this popular one-stop resource covers the basics of digital licensing for librarians in a plain-language approach that demystifies the process

Hosted by the University of South Florida Libraries, this conference on the role of libraries an archives in disaster preparedness and response speaks to one of the ways that libraries and archives are so important to the preservation of cultural…

Hand investigates political and economic power, digital technologies, and culture. Although he does not cite digitization as a cause of decentering economies or other cultural changes he does acknowledge broad trends related to digitization. One of…

In this article, the author presents the connection between personal digital archiving and community-based archiving and how they should work to assist one another. The author suggests that community-based projects can help provide flexibility and…

Halvorson writes about a new position in the job market called content strategist. Content strategists’ role description is hard to pin point and define because it depends on the circumstances and the organization they work for. They are more than…

Tackle the challenges of digital photo file management!

If you find yourself with more digital photos than you know what to do with or at a loss as to how to begin organizing them all, then Digital Asset Management (DAM) is your solution. This…

Early recorded sound represents an invaluable slice of our global heritage, but the information stored on old recordings is constantly degraded through wear and other damage. To restore and preserve that vital content, physicists and archivists are…

Transforming the Authority of the Archive from editors and contributors Andi Gustavson and Charlotte Nunes is a collection of articles written by vcontributors from a range of institutions including small liberal arts colleges, HBCUs, Ivy Leagues,…

A Primer for Teaching Digital History is a guide for teachers at the high school and college level looking to teach about digital history and offers different strategies for building a syllabus or wish to include the topic in their teachings. Along…