Dear NDSA, Happy Holidays and best wishes for a wonderful New Year for all! Here's the latest news on what's happening. Updates: Martha Anderson has retired. We all wish her well in her new endeavors. She will be greatly missed. Leslie Johnston will be Acting Director of NDIIPP. Welcome to this new role, Leslie. The Coordinating Committee and the Working Group co-chairs are planning to co-author a document on emerging topics in digital preservation. If you have comments, suggestions, or ideas, feel free to contact them! New Members: Welcome to the newest members of the NDSA! Pop Up Archive Brown University Library Upcoming Conferences: If you're going to one of the upcoming conferences, consider a meet up with other NDSA folks or mention of the NDSA work during your presentation. CurateGear 2013 January 9, 2013 UNC, Chapel Hill IDCC13 January, 14-16, 2013 Amsterdam ALA Midwinter January 25-29, 2013 Seattle, WA Congratulations to the folks who will be presenting the Preservation Levels work at Archiving 2013 in the spring! We all will look forward to seeing the slides and hearing about how the work is received. Have You Read: Digital Pioneer: Martha Anderson http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/12/digital-pioneer-martha-anderson/ The Foundations of Emulation as a Service: An Interview with Dirk von Suchodoletz http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/12/the-foundations-of-emulation-as-a-service-an-interview-with-dirk-von-suchodoletz-part-one/ Call to Action to Preserve Science Discourse on the Open Web http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/12/call-to-action-to-preserve-science-discourse-on-the-open-web/ Imagine What We'll Know This Time Next Week: An Interview with Bailey Smith and Anne Wootton of Pop Up Archive http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/12/imagine-what-well-know-this-time-next-week-an-interview-with-bailey-smith-and-anne-wootton-of-pop-up-archive/ Michelle Gallinger Digital Programs Coordinator Library of Congress 101 Independence Ave. SE Washington, DC 20007 202-707-1619 [log in to unmask] ############################ To unsubscribe from the NDSA-ALL list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://list.digitalpreservation.gov/scripts/wa-DIGITAL.exe?SUBED1=NDSA-ALL&A=1