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Martin Halbert New Dean of University of North Texas Libraries

October 29, 2009 -- Dr. Martin Halbert started his tenure as dean of the University of North Texas Libraries on October 1, 2009.
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Event: Cultural Heritage Online Conference

October 29, 2009 -- The second Cultural Heritage Online Conference will be held December 15-16, 2009 in Florance, Italy.
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NDIIPP Partners Play Major Role at iPRES 2009

October 29, 2009 -- The International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects, hosted by NDIIPP partners the California Digital Library, drew digital-preservation researchers and practitioners from 70 universities and 33 national libraries.
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IIPC Meets to Share Web Archiving Practices

October 29, 2009 -- The International Internet Preservation Consortium held a conference in San Francisco titled "Active Solutions for Preserving Internet Content."
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NDIIPP Participates in SunPASIG Conference

October 29, 2009 -- Prominent information technologists from around the world shared their data-preservation experiences at the Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group conference.
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NDIIPP Named "Great Government IT Project"

October 26, 2009 -- Government Computer News has named the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program as one of the top federal information technology projects of 2009.
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GeoMAPP Project Adds 10 New State Partners

October 16, 2009 -- Ten informational partners to join with existing partners North Carolina, Kentucky and Utah in exploring the long-term preservation of digital geospatial information.
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GeoMAPP Invades Raleigh Seeking Digital Treasure

October 16, 2009 -- Meeting in Raleigh continues work on preserving digital geospatial information.
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Web Conference Provides Update on Cloud Digital Preservation Project

October 15, 2009 -- The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program sponsored a web conference about recent developments with the DuraCloud project.
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Archivists Briefed Digital Preservation at the Library

October 15, 2009 -- Two groups of archivists received briefings about the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program and related activities at the Library of Congress.
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Exploring New Technologies for Digital Preservation Storage

October 8, 2009 -- Third Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Preservation meeting held Sept. 22-23, 2009 in Washington, D.C.
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NDIIPP Releases Web Archiving Video

October 7, 2009 -- The second video in the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program’s video series has been released.
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DC Government Hears about Geospatial Preservation

October 7, 2009 -- The District of Columbia government hearsĀ about the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program’s multistate GeoMAPP project and applies to the project’s new Informational Partners program.
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Digital Preservation Workshop Held at the Library

October 1, 2009 -- Library of Congress staff participated in a special Digital Preservation Management workshop, hosted by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, held September 21-22, 2009 in Washington, DC.
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Preserving Digital News

October 1, 2009 -- A group of experts came to the Library of Congress to discuss a national strategy for collecting and preserving news content that is not part of a traditional newspaper.
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Permanent Digital Access in the Netherlands

October 1, 2009 -- The Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation releases its interim report and holds a national conference.
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