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New NEH Preservation and Access Grants

April 28, 2010 -- The National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access is offering new grants under its Research and Development program. 
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Upcoming Event: MyLifeBits: Microsoft's Gordon Bell

April 28, 2010 -- Microsoft's Gordon Bell will speak at the Library of Congress on May 5, 2010 at 12:00 p.m. 
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New Media Atwitter Over Tweet Archive

April 16, 2010 -- On April 14, the Library of Congress blogged and tweeted that Twitter is donating its digital archive of public tweets to the Library. 
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Library On the Roadmap with NIST

April 16, 2010 -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology launched an effort to establish a digital preservation roadmap at workshop in Gaithersburg, MD. 
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Speaking of Digital Preservation Sustainability

April 8, 2010 -- The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access sponsored an engaging symposium in Washington, DC.
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Library of Congress Rocks South By Southwest Conference

April 7, 2010 -- The Library of Congress participated in the conference held annually in Austin, Tx.
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Alabama, New Mexico Join PeDALS

April 1, 2010 -- The newest partners in the Persistent Digital Archives and Library System research project are quickly seeing practical results.  
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JHOVE2: The Next Generation

April 1, 2010 -- California Digital Library, along with partners Portico and Stanford University, have released an alpha version of JHOVE2 to the digital preservation community. 
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New NDIIPP Video: Why Digital Preservation is Important for Everyone

April 1, 2010 -- The new Library of Congress video is a high-level overview about how digital media differs from traditional media and has different requirements for its preservation. 
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