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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.

To clarify, improve, and correct the laws relating to copyrights.
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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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S.3804, To combat online infringement, and for other purposes.
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In this issue:

*The Geospatial Multistate Archive and Preservation Partnership engages industry at the 2010 ESRI International User Conference

*Abbie Grotke of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program Web Archiving Team talks about web archiving projects at the Library of Congress

*A new video in the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Video Series is available: “Physical and Digital Preservation of the Waldeseemuller Map”

*David Brunton of the Library of Congress Repository Development Center talks about software development activities

*The European Planets project is featured in the latest “On the Leading Edge” profile

*A recent Computerworld article examined some of the issues surrounding archival storage

September 14, 2010 — The Library of Congress participated in Save Our African American Treasures , which was held in Topeka, Kan., during August 14-15. The National Museum of African American History and Culture sponsored the public event to offer advice about preserving personal collections.

September 24, 2010 — The Persistent Digital Archives and Library System research project has recently released an open source software tool that extracts email, attachments and other objects from Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders (.pst) files, converting messages into XML.

September 24, 2010 — For those who use the Mozilla Firefox browser, you now have the option to time travel through the web. MementoFox is a free extension that users can add-on to their browsers.

September 24, 2010 — The American Political Science Association has awarded ContextMiner — created as part of the NDIIPP VidArch project — the 2010 Information Technology & Politics award for Best Political Science Website or Software.