I just got the bill for the first month of hosting this blog on Amazon Web Services. The total for the month was $23.60, and includes:

• data transfer charges for all in-bound and out-bound content;
• a full-time use of a LINUX micro-sized Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance (with backup …

A last-minute change to my plans for ALA Midwinter came on Tuesday when I was sought out to fill in for a speaker than canceled at the ALCTS Digital Preservation Interest Group meeting. Options for outsourcing storage and services for preserving digital content has been a recent interest, so I …

Last month OCLC announced a new service offering for long-term storage of libraries' digital collections. Called Digital Archive™, it provides "a secure storage environment for you to easily manage and monitor the health of your master files and digital originals." Barbara Quint has an article in Information Today called "OCLC …