No, they didn’t say what you’re thinking, you gutter minds! They said, “OK, if you’re so concerned about TheScoop.net, why don’t you do something about it? We’ve got other things to do.”

So, now that I’m the defacto boss around here, things are going to be different. For one thing, instead of my page being somewhere down in the deep recesses of this dump, I’m moving into the front page.

Now, the best thing ever about this whole site, in my humble opinion, was Aunt Crabby’s Message Board. It was great to hear all the griping from the unfortunates who had their web sites or graphics ripped off by some lazy #$&$%$%#’s. Your dear Aunt got a chance to use her razor wit and maybe actually helped to stem the tide of rampant web site theft at the same time.

Now, your Auntie has never been one to stay mired in the past, so, since the new wave of self expression on the net seems to be “blogs”, your Dear Aunt Crabby is now blogging instead of running a message board. If you want to write a letter to Dear Aunt Crabby, just trundle over to the contact form, make your x’s and come on back here and improve your mind. If you’re lucky, Aunt Crabby will publish your letter and her insightful (inciteful?) answer here.

Your Dear Aunt Crabby has been busy, in fact, too busy to rant lately.

As you can see, TheScoop.net has lots of updated info straight from the horse’s mouth, so to speak, about current goings on at the Copyright Office.

If your eyes tend to blur over after reading a few press releases, why not take a look at our poetry or go get a SCOOP.net logo to put on your website and help promote our mission to make everyone aware of the importance of copyrights which protect the stuff you create.

Oh, and if you’re in the mood for some of Aunt Crabby’s rants about other stuff, you can visit Aunt Crabby’s new site: http://hotgossip.thescoop.net

October 2010 – Nancy McGovern has been involved in the preservation of digital content since the mid-1980s when she began working with electronic records at the U.S. National Archives.

Since then, she has been responsible for the preservation of digital content of all kinds, including digital archives, digital library collections, and research data. During that time, she has actively tracked the emergence of the digital preservation field with an increasingly comprehensive set of standards and practices as new content types require new or enhanced strategies.

S.3804, To combat online infringement, and for other purposes.
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S 3728 To amend title 17, United States Code, to extend protection to fashion design, and for other purposes. Introduced August 5, 2010.
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To clarify, improve, and correct the laws relating to copyrights.
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In this issue:

*Highlights from Best Practices Exchange 2010

*The Library of Congress participates in a public event, “Save Our African American Treasures,” to offer advice about preserving personal digital collections

*Two NDIIPP-supported projects recently released software tools that can assist digital preservation practitioners and researchers: MozillaFox and the PeDALS Email Extractor for Outlook

*A recap of a recent Smithsonian Institution forum, “Yours, Mine, Ours: Leadership Through Collaboration”

*2010 Digital Preservation Award shortlist announced

*ContextMiner, a tool free tool that enables users to collect links to blogs and online videos, wins an award for Best Political Science Website or Software

*Upcoming Fall Events: DLF Fall Forum, Reimagining the Archive Symposium, the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, and CNI Fall 2010 Meeting

October 8, 2010 — The Best Practices Exchange, an annual gathering of state archivists, librarians and others with an interest in the preservation of government digital information, held its fifth annual meeting September 28-October 1 in Phoenix, Az. A special focus of the meeting was upon the four Library of Congress state government information projects supported under the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program.

October 5, 2010 — The Smithsonian Institution hosted Yours, Mine, Ours: Leadership Through Collaboration on September 20-21 in Washington, DC. The OCLC Research and RLG Partnership planning committee organized the meeting, which was an outgrowth of previous OCLC work focusing on the convergence of libraries, archives and museums.

October 5, 2010 — While collaboration among libraries, archives and museums has taken place for some time, challenges remain on the path to success.

This topic generated a great deal of insightful discussion at Yours, Mine, Ours: Leadership Through Collaboration, a recent meeting hosted at the Smithsonian Institution.

September 28, 2010 — The Institute of Conservation and the Digital Preservation Coalition recently announced the shortlist for the prestigious Digital Preservation Award 2010. Several NDIIPP-supported projects have made the list.