6 Emerging Initiatives for Digital Collections | The Signal: Digital Preservation
abernard102@gmail.com 2014-02-27
Summary:
"I was asked to present a talk today for an internal group at the Library of Congress based on my recent experiences participating in the Top Tech Trends panel at the 2014 American Library Association Midwinter meeting. It was suggested that I present a 'Leslie-fied' version of the always-inspiring landscape talks that my colleague Cliff Lynch presents (seemingly without any effort).
Once I thought a bit about what I took away from my participation that the Top Tech Trends panel, and how I would limit the framework for the talk (emerging initiatives around digital collections), I chose my topics. And then because I needed to 'Leslie-fy' it even more, I asked a ten year-old to help me illustrate my talk. Which she illustrated entirely with CC-licensed lolcats from Flickr. Here’s what I covered ..."