The October 2010 issue of the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter

The October 2010 issue of the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available.

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201010.pdf

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