MCLS Communique

Join WebJunction for an Online Digitization and Preservation Symposium

July 19th, 2010 Kelly Bayee

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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