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New NDIIPP Podcast: LC Digital Repository

March 31, 2010 -- The Library of Congress's Babak Hamidzadeh talks about developing its digital repository.
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Game Not Over: Preserving Video Games

March 26, 2010 -- The Preserving Virtual Worlds project team met recently in Palo Alto, CA.
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Chronopolis Presents Virtually

March 26, 2010 -- A recording of a web conference about recent developments of the Chronopolis Project is available.
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Federal Agencies Get (and Keep) the Picture

March 26, 2010 -- Federal Computer Week recently did a story that discusses how the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative is helping government agencies preserve audio-visual information. 
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NDIIPP Partner Puts Dot-Com Crash in Perspective

March 19, 2010 -- March 19, 2010 --David Kirsch of the Birth of the Dot-Com Era Project provided some historical analysis for two recent news stories.
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Arizona States Project Preserves E-mail

March 18, 2010 -- The Arizona State Library, Archives, and Public Records has developed an automated process to preserve official e-mail records produced by Microsoft Outlook. 
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North Carolina Partners Share Geospatial Project Findings

March 12, 2010 -- Representatives from the Geospatial Multistate Archive and Preservation Partnership reached out to federal geospatial information users with a presentation during the ESRI Federal User Conference in Washington, DC in February.
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Portico Launches New Website

March 12, 2010 -- Portico, a not-for-profit digital archiving service for the publishing and library communities, has launched a new website, www.portico.org.
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NDIIPP Hosts 'Spring Break' Students

March 12, 2010 -- The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program hosted two interns as part of the University of Michigan, School of Information Alternative Spring Break Program.
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Upcoming Event: Chronopolis Demonstrates Services in WebEx Session

March 8, 2010 -- Chronopolis will host a WebEx session on Friday, March 19 at 1:30 p.m. EST (10:30 a.m. PST).
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BRTF Publishes Final Report

March 4, 2010 -- The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access has issued a final report, Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet.
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Distributed Digital Preservation Guide Issued

March 4, 2010 -- Members of the MetaArchive Cooperative have written A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation.
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Digital Public Television Project Releases Sustainability Report

March 4, 2010 -- The Preserving Digital Public Television Project has released the report, Strategies for Sustainable Preservation of Born Digital Public Television.
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NEH Offers Preservation Grants for Smaller Institutions

March 4, 2010 -- The National Endowment for the Humanities recently announced the availability of Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions. 
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Johnston Joins NDIIPP Staff

March 1, 2010 -- Leslie Johnston joins the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, and she'll work with NDIIPP partners and Library of Congress staff to coordinate technical strategy for distributed digital preservation and access initiatives.
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Library Podcasts Featured on iTunes

March 1, 2010 -- Library podcast series is noteworthy at iTunes.
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