Bill, Thanks for your pioneering work to build the foundations of this community. We shall continue to build on this. best, Micah ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Micah Altman, Ph.D. <http://micahaltman.com> Twitter: @drmaltman Director of Research -- MIT Libraries; Head/Scientist, Program on Information Science Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution "Entia non sunt multiplicanda sine necessitate" - Doctor Invincibilis (Corollary, "Ad indicia spectate.") On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Lefurgy, William <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I am retiring as of tomorrow, March 7. Before I go, I want to thank you, > our NDIIPP partners, for all you have done over the years. I've worked with > some of you for quite a while; others I know less well, but all of you play > an important role in advancing digital preservation practice, knowledge and > awareness. > > It seems like only yesterday that we held the first NDIIPP partners > meeting in January 2005, which was followed by others on a regular basis. I > feel privileged to have had a role in setting up those meetings, as well as > in shaping the original implementation of the NDIIPP program. Those were > heady days of launching initiatives, welcoming new partners and aiming to > do big things. One of the best parts of the experience for me was > experiencing the tremendous good will that our partners had for the program > and for moving ahead together. I look back at what we worked on and what we > accomplished with a sense of pride and appreciation. I feel we helped > provide the nation-and the world-with a foundation for doing even greater > things with digital preservation. > > And so-keep up the good work! > > Cheers, > > Bill LeFurgy > National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program > Library of Congress > > ############################ > > 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 > ############################ 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