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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Atlanta, GA | Posted: March 26, 2018
This summer, the Georgia Tech Library’s retroTECH program will join top universities and museums in a groundbreaking effort to preserve culturally important computing through the Software Preservation Network.
The program, Fostering a Community of Practice: Software Preservation in Libraries and Archives, aims to empower librarians, archivists and curators to address the key challenges to providing long-term access to software-dependent cultural heritage. Work kicks off in June, with projects ending in November 2019.
For their part, the Tech Librarians will bring a new service, retroTECH Online, to fruition. It will offer an online emulation environment through which authenticated Georgia Tech users (as well as possibly researchers and visitors who create accounts) can utilize emulated software from retroTECH’s collections for teaching and learning, explore the stories surrounding that software, and foster a virtual community.
In the effort, retroTECH joins teams from the universities of Virginia, Arizona and Illinois, the Guggenheim Museum and the Living Computer Museum + Labs.