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December 14, 2016

Building a National Agenda for Saving Online News

This panel presented varied impressions from the third Dodging the Memory Hole event October 13-14th at UCLA Libraries, which focused on preserving journalistic content online. Topics include development of roles for each stakeholder community and preparing library science students to meet the demands for archiving news in the future.

June 8, 2015

Scanning the Environment: North Carolina Born Digital News Preservation Practices 2015

What little is known about news preservation practices in the United States is alarming. In 2012, the Pew Research Center’s Project for the Excellence in Journalism cited that already “the emerging world of community online news, less than a decade old, can be difficult to access.” A 2012 survey of news librarians conducted by the … Continue reading Scanning the Environment: North Carolina Born Digital News Preservation Practices 2015

Saving Digital News
November 17, 2014

Saving Digital News

November 11, 2014

Jump In: Taking Action in a Critical Moment

Closing remarks by Katherine Skinner, Educopia Institute executive director, and event reflections and evaluation.

Digital Preservation of Newspapers: Findings of the Chronicles in Preservation Project
October 4, 2012

Digital Preservation of Newspapers: Findings of the Chronicles in Preservation Project

In this paper, we describe research led by Educopia Institute regarding the preservation needs for digitized and born-digital newspapers. The Chronicles in Preservation project, builds upon previous efforts (e.g. the U.S. National Digital Newspaper Program) to look more broadly at the needs of digital newspapers in all of their diverse and challenging forms. This paper … Continue reading Digital Preservation of Newspapers: Findings of the Chronicles in Preservation Project