Preservation

LIPA Launches Grant Opportunities

LIPA is here to jumpstart your preservation efforts! Our members now have access to conference and project grant funding as a benefit of...

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The Preservation of UCLA Library’s Fantastic Collection of Hebraica and Judaica

The UCLA Library recently reported that 400 volumes of a collection consisting of over 33,300 volumes, the Cummings Collection of...

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Preservation Press (May 2019)

Greetings LIPA members -- mark your calendar! LIPA's membership meeting at the American Association of Law Libraries' Annual Meeting and...

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Access & Preservation Day at RootsTech

Last week, I attended Access and Preservation Day, sponsored by ProQuest and FamilySearch, at RootsTech 2018, the largest genealogical...

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FDLP Webinar: Knowledge is Power: Assessing Collections for Preservation Planning

The FDLP Academy is offering a free webinar on assessing collections for preservation planning. The webinar will be held on Wednesday,...

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International Digital Preservation Day, 30th November 2017

2017 is the inaugural year to celebrate International Digital Preservation Day. This year’s theme: Bits Decay: Do Something Today. Held...

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Web Archiving

Did you know that the Government Publishing Office uses Archive-It for web archiving? Read more about what they do here. LIPA offers a...

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GPO Webinar on Microfiche Preservation

Most of us have sizable collections of microfiche that we wonder what to do with. We know that microfiche can degrade over time, but...

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Initiatives to Preserve and Protect Federally Produced Data

Universities and other organizations have begun initiatives to support government information accessibility given projected/actual...

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Preservation Webinar Series: Part 1, Digital Imaging 101

The Government Publishing Office will be hosting a series of webinars on preservation. The first of these will be held on Monday, March...

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LIPA at the Digital Library Federation Forum and NDSA’s Digital Preservation 2016

Margie Maes, LIPA executive director, attended the 2016 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum in Milwaukee, WI, November 7-9. In January...

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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? ...

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Opportunity for “At Risk” Audio and Audiovisual Materials

Preservation needs extend beyond paper and microfiche holdings. Do you have any “at risk” audio or audiovisual materials in your...

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Process of Preservation

Initial announcement of The Process of Preservation, Nov. 30, 2015 post on A Library With a View (UGA Law Library blog), The project was...

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ARSC Guide to Audio Preservation

Anyone who is responsible for preserving sound recordings will be interested in the ARSC Guide to Audio Preservation. Available free as a...

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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...

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Reliable and Confidential Archiving of U.S. Supreme Court Web Cites

The following is a guest post by Nicholas Taylor, Web Archiving Service Manager for Stanford University Libraries and former Library...

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More Preservation resources

Last month’s blog posts for Preservation Week were interesting and inspiring. Building on this theme, here are some resources to expand...

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Personal Digital Archiving Resources

Recently I had an opportunity to attend the Personal Digital Archiving 2014 conference co-sponsored by the Library of Congress, the...

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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,...

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