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GeoMAPP Participates in ASPRS Annual Conference

March 26, 2009 -- Building awareness of the preservation issues facing digital geospatial data brought GeoMAPP partners to the 2009 ASPRS Annual Conference.
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MetaArchive Supports Community Approaches Conference

March 26, 2009 -- The MetaArchive Project helped sponsor Community Approaches to Digital Preservation 2009, a conference focusing on collaborative approaches to digital preservation services.
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Students 'Spring Break'’ with NDIIPP

March 20, 2009 -- Two graduate students spent their week interning with NDIIPP as part of an Alternative Spring Break program.
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Event: Dr. David Kirsch to Speak at the Library March 17

March 17, 2009 -- Dr. David Kirsch, an Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, will discuss "A Public Interest in Private Records."
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Event: Digital Preservation Management: Short-Term Solutions for Long-Term Problems Workshop

March 12, 2009 -- Registration is now open for the Digital Preservation Management: Short-Term Solutions for Long-Term Problems Workshop, now hosted by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) after originally being developed at Cornell by Anne R Kenney and Nancy Y McGovern.
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Secretaries of State Briefed on Preserving State Government Information

March 12, 2009 -- The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program was on the agenda for the National Association of Secretaries of State Heritage Committee meeting on February 6, 2009.
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CBS Looks at "Data Rot"

March 6, 2009 -- Digital preservation was featured on the "CBS Sunday Morning" show on March 1, 2009 with a segment titled "Bye, Tech: Dealing with Data Rot."
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