Kit Arrington of the Library's Prints and Photographs Division. Credit: Cyndi A. Wood
June 10, 2010 -- Creating digital versions of historical collections is frequently talked about, but how does it actually work at the Library of Congress? Kit Arrington discussed this very topic in a Preservation Technology podcast on June 2, 2010, with Kevin Ammons of the National Park Service National Center for Preservation Technology and Training.
A digital library specialist, Arrington described the process of digitizing the the Library’s holdings of the Historic American Buildings Survey, the Historic American Engineering Record, and the Historic American Landscapes Survey. "Between those three collections, there are now over 39,000 surveys, which contain over 500,000 measured drawings, photographs and written history pages," said Arrington in the podcast. She also discussed efforts to keep the digital copies accessible for future generations though careful choice of archival file formats and other preservation practices.
Arrington participated in the Library’s Personal Archiving Day event on May 10, 2010, presenting information about photograph collections and their long-term preservation.
