- A sound for sore ears, the Library of Congress unveiled their National Recording Preservation Plan, a framework for saving America's recorded sound heritage for future generations. [via Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig, SIA]
- Twitter and scholarly research? A new tool being developed at George Washington University Libraries allows social media researchers to gather data from Twitter. [via InfoDocket]
- All is not lost, Operation Photo Rescue was recently in New York City to help people restore photographs that were damaged by Hurricane Sandy. [via Marcel LaFollete, SIA]
- The British Library recently announced the digitization of some of its most important works in their collections. [via Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig, SIA]
- With the London 2012 Summer Olympics a distant memory, and with the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics on the horizon, photographer David Burnett shares some of his decidley unique images of the games that he took with a 1940s Speed Graphic camera and a 1943 Aerial reconnaissance lens. [via PetaPixel]
- Bringing museum collections, children, and a little mystery together, at the National Museum of American History the Tooth Fairy makes dental deposits. [via O say can you see?, NMAH]
- Are you getting overwhelmed by all of the digital information in your life? If so, check out the upcoming Personal Digital Archiving 2013 program at the University of Maryland, College Park. See video below. [via Effie Kapsalis, SIA]
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