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As the NCSU Libraries Born Digital Strategic Initiative has grown over the last year and a half, we have been fortunate to interact with many talented librarians and archivists who are also building…

One of the most significant benefits of working in the digital domain is the power to search quickly and accurately. Open a physical copy of To Kill a Mockingbird and then open a digital copy on a…

There are numerous obstacles to overcome when instituting a born digital process - gathering equipment , establishing basic institutional requirements for how processing is done, and deciding on…

Throughout our born digital strategic initiative here at NC State Libraries we have debated over the last year just how we will make digital items discoverable to our patrons. Archival discovery…

The Society of American Archivists' 2014 Annual Meeting just wrapped up in Washington, DC, and the NCSU Libraries Born Digital Strategic Initiative was represented through a panel, proposed by NCSU's…

Students and staff in the Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, in the 1970s, potentially creating media for modern digital archivists to curate. When the NCSU Libraries' Born…

No matter how detailed the setup is for processing born digital collections, no matter what suite of tools one might use, and no matter how much one might discuss with colleagues about the best way…

The Born Digital Curation strategic initiative at NC State University Libraries has been developed under the principle that, in order both to treat born digital assets as an important resource in our…

Along with the decision to start a born digital curation initiative like the one we have just begun here at the NCSU Libraries Special Collections Research Center comes an important and complicated…

An NC State student from the past may have created born digital material on this now-legacy Macintosh. Figuring out how to capture, store, and make such data available is part of the Born Digital…