Meet the 1,300 librarians racing to back up Ukraine’s digital archives

Image by Alexandra Koch from Pixabay. Article by Pranshu Verma. The Washington Post – April 8, 2022.

In early March, two weeks into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Carrie Pirmann stumbled upon a website dedicated to Ivan Mazepa, a 16th century Ukrainian politician and patron of the arts. A 44-year-old librarian at Bucknell University, Pirmann had joined an international effort of fellow archivists to preserve the digital history of a country under siege, and the contents of Mazepa’s website, though obscure, seemed worth saving. […]

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