Join WebJunction for an Online Digitization and Preservation Symposium
WebJunction is hosting a free two-hour symposium that will feature four presentations on current trends and practicial appraoches to library digitization and preservation projects.
Guest panelists will address:
- Designing a digital preservation system using a framework that includes all stakeholders, from library administrators to archivists to IT workers to vendors
- The difference between access and preservation tools, and why we need to consider both
- Harvesting social networking websites for preservation
- The organizationsl “long-view” of preservation resources, technology, costs and polices.
Panelists include:
- Sarai Lastra, Vice Chancellor of Information Resources/Director of Virtual Library at Universidad del Turabo, Puerto Rico
- Sarah McHugh, Statewide Projects Librarian, Montana State Library, including Montana Memory Project
- Amy Rudersdorf, Director of the Digital Information Management Program, State Library of North Carolina and lecturer at San Jose State University, School of Library & Information Science
- Taylor Surface, Senior Product Manager, Digital Collection Services, OCLC
The Symposium will be held on August 25, 2010 from 2pm – 4pm Eastern Time. Register today!
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