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Archives’ Kari Smith blogs about digital archives

By MIT Libraries on May 9, 2013 in Archives & MIT history


 
Announcing the blog, Engineering the Future of the Past, by staff of the MIT Institute Archives and Special Collections.

Are you interested in knowing what the MIT Libraries is doing about digital archives?  Follow Digital Archivist Kari Smith as she writes about the processes and practice of dealing with digital records and archives.

 

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