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Reflections of a Research Fellow: Celebrating Five Years of the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Network ...3 days

By Linda Smith

I recently read Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge by Richard Ovenden. The tales of loss of the libraries and archives throughout history remain timely. Since January 2025, Trump has fired

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Registration Available for the Electronic Records Section Annual Section Meeting!1 week

Join the Electronic Records Section (ERS) for our annual section meeting being held on Wednesday, May 27, 2026 from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM (EST).

This virtual meeting will include business updates from the ERS Steering Committee and include updates on events, bloggERS, and from SAA. The business meeting will be immediately followed by a presentat...

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Call for Contributors – #digitalarchivesfail Redux: a Celebration of Failure2 weeks

We’re well into spring, a time of renewal and revival. To get into the spirit of the season, bloggERS! is bringing back a series we first ran almost a decade ago:

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An Approach to Backing up Internet Archive Web Crawls3 weeks

By Susan Borda and Scott Witmer

Adapted from the DPC Digital Preservation Workflow Webinar series, March 2026

The University of Michigan Library web archiving initiative began as a pilot program in 2015 with three collections in Archive-It and has since grown to include eight collections totaling over 2.6TB of data. The

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