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D-Lib May 2002 Bonita Wilson	Digital Preservation -- A Long Journey Research involving digital preservation is extremely complex and presents enormous problems, but it is important to make a start...
Information Today January 6, 2015	Library of Congress Seeks Applications for National Digital Stewardship Residency The Library of Congress' digital preservation blog, The Signal, announced the official open call for applications for the 2015-2016 National Digital Stewardship Residency.
D-Lib June 2006 Abby Smith	Distributed Preservation in a National Context: NDIIPP at Mid-point A summary of the progress of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program - five and a half years after its inception.
Search Engine Watch July 25, 2005 Chris Sherman	Microsoft Launches MSN Virtual Earth Microsoft has released a beta version of Virtual Earth, a web-based application that combines local search with maps and aerial photography.
PC Magazine July 12, 2006	The Earth, Updated Google has marked the one-year anniversary of its Google Earth satellite mapping software by delivering a new beta version 4.0.
D-Lib May 2003 Marcum & Friedlander	Keepers of the Crumbling Culture What digital preservation can learn from library history
Information Today May 12, 2008 Paula J. Hane	LC Works to Make Collections Accessible and Compelling The venerable Library of Congress (LC), has been leading the way with some exciting digital preservation projects and working with leading multimedia partners on innovative projects.
Information Today December 18, 2008	Task Force Issues Interim Report on Digital Preservation and Access This report cites an urgent need to identify sustainable economic models to provide access to the ever-growing amount of digital information.
Information Today July 16, 2009	Library of Congress and DuraSpace Launch Cloud Technologies Pilot Program They will launch a 1-year pilot program to test the use of cloud technologies to enable perpetual access to digital content.
Information Today November 6, 2014	Library of Congress Releases Digital Preservation Survey Results The survey explores the state of digital preservation practice and how organizations and professionals can do preservation work.
Information Today November 28, 2005 Barbara Quint	Library of Congress Launches Global "Rare Book" Digitization Project with Google Donation The Library of Congress' emerging "megalibrary" is getting a virtual "rare books" room thanks to Google.
Information Today May 28, 2015	Library of Congress Updates Website With New Interface and Web Archive Content This is the first big content release since June 2013, and it comes with a simplified interface and similarities to web archives at other institutions.
PC World July 24, 2005 Dennis O'Reilly	The World on Your Desktop Google Earth, MSN Virtual Earth combine satellite images with local search information.
Information Today March 5, 2012 Victoria McCargar	Viewshare: Up Close and Personal With Your Digital Treasures Back in November 2011, the Library of Congress blogged about a new online service called Viewshare, a web domain where cultural heritage institutions can show off their digital treasures free of charge.
T.H.E. Journal January 2001	Bringing Classics to the Masses Reciprocal will act as a virtual wholesaler and will protect, host and manage e-book content for the Modern Library, an imprint of the Random House Trade Group. The new program will enable the distribution of e-books via a broad network of affinity and retail Web sites...
D-Lib February 2007 H.M. Gladney	Digital Preservation in a National Context: Questions and Views of an Outsider Today's National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program is focused on cultural content similar to traditional research library holdings, with little attention to preserving practical information critical to most social infrastructure and of interest to most citizens.
Information Today February 7, 2008	Columbia University Collaborates With Microsoft on Digitization Project Columbia University and Microsoft are collaborating on an initiative to digitize a large number of books from Columbia University Libraries and to make them available to internet users.
Information Today July 17, 2008	New Report on Copyright Law and Digital Preservation The Library of Congress, through its National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) has issued a joint report on the impact of copyright law on digital preservation.
InternetNews July 6, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	John Hanke, GM, Google Earth Google wants Google Earth to organize all the world's geo-spatial information through user-annotation.
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2015 Justin B. Sorensen	Reconstructing the Past Through Utah Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps: A Geospatial Approach to Library Resources This article describes the Digital Scholarship Lab's endeavor to convert these valuable resources into research driven geospatial datasets, providing a new format for how the library information is presented.
D-Lib May 2004 Linda Hill	Georeferencing in Digital Libraries What the digital library perspective toward georeferencing is and the application of georeferencing to all types of information and the integration of geospatial description, searching, and analysis into digital library practices.
InternetNews July 27, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Google Earth, Maps Spike Enterprise Punch Business and government users of Google Earth for the enterprise can now view their organizations' geospatial data in 2-D on a browser behind the firewall.
InternetNews June 26, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Google Earth Does Good For Real One Google today announced Google Earth Outreach, a program to help the world's nonprofit organizations get a foothold in the virtual world so they can better communicate to Google Earth's 200 million users how to help the real one.
Information Today March 18, 2010 Barbara Quint	Digital Preservation Guidance From Blue Ribbon Task Force The technological challenges to long-term retention of digital content are great, but perhaps even greater are the economic and institutional challenges.
Information Today April 12, 2010	Credo Reference Launches Topic Pages as `Librarian's Answer to Wikipedia' Libraries who have participated in the beta testing of Credo Topic Pages are giving it rave reviews.
D-Lib October 2000 James J. O'Donnell	LC21 - Hopes and Cautions for the Library of Congress It is the Library of Congress's fate to be a symbol as well as a library...
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2008 Brian F. Lavoie	The Fifth Blackbird: Some Thoughts on Economically Sustainable Digital Preservation How do we ensure that digital preservation activities survive beyond the current availability of soft-money funding?
D-Lib April 2002 Amy Friedlander	The National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program Expectations, realities, choices and progress to date...
Information Today September 24, 2007	New Digital Preservation and Access Task Force Formed The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation are funding a blue-ribbon task force to address the issue of economic sustainability for digital preservation and persistent access.
D-Lib April 2004 Brian F. Lavoie	Implementing Metadata in Digital Preservation Systems: The PREMIS Activity This article discusses the objectives, current status, and future activities of PREMIS, an expert working group focused on the topic of implementing preservation metadata within digital archiving systems.
D-Lib May 2004 Michael F. Goodchild	The Alexandria Digital Library Project: Review, Assessment, and Prospects Why the Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) was established, how it progressed, and how the vision of ADL continues to evolve.
D-Lib May/Jun 2013 Laurence Lannom	Acquisition, Access, and Preservation You will find an emphasis on preservation, but taken as a whole, the issue covers the waterfront of digital library topics, i.e., acquiring information, making it accessible, and preserving it.
Information Today December 10, 2013	Three Library Associations Shut Down The Communications Group announced the end of its association management division, which manages three national library associations.
Information Today July 30, 2013 Barbie E. Keiser	Preserving Our Digital World (#digpres2013) Organized by the Library of Congress, #digpres2013 brought scores of archivists, librarians, and information specialists together to explore solutions to the challenges of stewarding digital content over the long-term.
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2014 Theron Westervelt	Library of Congress Recommended Format Specifications: Encouraging Preservation Without Discouraging Creation The Library of Congress has devised the Recommended Format Specifications to enable it to identify what formats will most easily lend themselves to preservation and long-term access, especially with regard to digital formats.
D-Lib April 2003 Searle & Thompson	Preservation Metadata Pragmatic first steps at the National Library of New Zealand
D-Lib December 2003 Connaway & Lawrence	Comparing Library Resource Allocations for the Paper and the Digital Library: An Exploratory Study The research reported in this article is an attempt to identify resource allocations for an all-paper library and the all-digital library that provides ejournals, eBooks, electronic maps, and digital audio, video, and images, based on information gathered from a group of research librarians.
D-Lib May 2004	Spatial Data Infrastructures and Digital Libraries: Paths to Convergence In a knowledge based economy, the effective use of geographic information (GI) is of critical importance (including a wide range of spatially referenced or referenceable resources).
Information Today June 23, 2015 Corilee Christou	Finding a Librarian of Congress for the Digital Age It's time to move on and finally hire, first and foremost, a Librarian of Congress with the appropriate library degree and experience.
Search Engine Watch November 22, 2005 Sullivan & Price	World Digital Library Project Announced, Backed by Library of Congress & Google The United States Library of Congress has announced the creation of the World Digital Library, a project that's also received its first $3 million in funding from Google.
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2004 Lavoie & Dempsey	Thirteen Ways of Looking at...Digital Preservation Fulfilling the promise of integrated and readily accesible material requires the cultivation of stakeholder communities that meaningfully engage with digital information environments.
National Defense January 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Agency Grapples With Demand For Detailed, Timely Intelligence In response to a soaring demand for battlefield imagery and digital maps, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency is seeking to automate the parsing and analysis of intelligence, and to make its products more easily available to front-line commanders.
Information Today January 14, 2010	Ex Libris Announces the Beta Release of Rosetta Version 2.0 The system enables institutions to manage, preserve, and provide access to documents for perpetuity-institutional documents, research output in digital formats, digital images, websites, and other digitally born and digitized materials.
AFP eWire August 20, 2007	Google Earth Outreach Offered to Nonprofits Several charities have already employed Google Earth in their marketing and education efforts.
Chemistry World February 13, 2014 Simon Poulton	The Earth as a cradle for life This enjoyable book by Stacey and Hodgkinson takes a long-term view of Earth's development as a habitable planet, incorporating physical, chemical and biological processes on the early Earth, to the modern world.
D-Lib August 2009 Michael Ashenfelder	21st Century Shipping: Network Data Transfer to the Library of Congress While network data transfer has not completely replaced shipping data on hardware storage media to the Library of Congress, it is gradually becoming the preferred method.
D-Lib December 2005 Bonita Wilson	Global Gateway: World Culture & Resources The Library of Congress Global Gateway provides access to the World Digital Library (WDL) which offers international cultural digital resources available via the Internet worldwide.
InternetNews June 13, 2006 Nicholas Carlson	More KML And Bits of Google Earth Google took another step toward its goal to create a "Mirror World" with some improvements to its Google Earth satellite mapping application.
D-Lib August 2006 Lavoie, Henry & Dempsey	A Service Framework for Libraries As libraries continue to engage with an ever-shifting information landscape, it is apparent that their efforts would be facilitated by a shared view of how library services should be organized and surfaced in these new settings and contexts.
D-Lib December 2005 Clay Shirky	AIHT: Conceptual Issues from Practical Tests The Archive Ingest and Handling Test (AIHT) was created with the idea that by giving a moderately complex digital archive to a variety of participants, we would be able to better understand which aspects of digital preservation were institution-specific, and which aspects were more general.