The October 2010 issue of the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201010.pdf In this issue: *Highlights from Best Practices Exchange 2010 *The Library of Congress participates in a public event, "Save Our African American Treasures," to offer advice about preserving personal digital collections *Two NDIIPP-supported projects recently released software tools that can assist digital preservation practitioners and researchers: MozillaFox and the PeDALS Email Extractor for Outlook *A recap of a recent Smithsonian Institution forum, "Yours, Mine, Ours: Leadership Through Collaboration" *2010 Digital Preservation Award shortlist announced *ContextMiner, a tool free tool that enables users to collect links to blogs and online videos, wins an award for Best Political Science Website or Software *Upcoming Fall Events: DLF Fall Forum, Reimagining the Archive Symposium, the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, and CNI Fall 2010 Meeting