forwarded message on training

[Richard Boyden <richard.boyden@sanbruno.nara.gov>]

this was posted on the E-RECS listserv and I thought it might be of
interest:

From: 	Tom Ruller <tom@unix6.nysed.gov>
To:	Multiple recipients of list ERECS-L <ERECS-L@CNSIB...
Date: 	8/12/96 7:26am
Subject: 	Course on preserving new media at LIU

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Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 20:20:19 -0400
From: psnyu@aurora.liunet.edu
To: erecs-l@CNSIBM.ALBANY.EDU
Subject: Paul Banks to Give Course at Palmer School

Apologies in advance for duplicate messages: this notice is being posted
to several lists.

        The Palmer School of Library & Information Science of Long Island
University is particularly pleased to annouce that Paul N. Banks will offer
a special course at the Manhattan campus this fall.
        NEW MEDIA AND RECORDED INFORMATION: TECHNOLOGY AND
PRESERVATION
CONTEXT FOR THE COURSE: All information is embodied in physical
media, and newer media are rapidly assuming increasing importance
both as media to be preserved and in some cases as media to which
information is transferred for preservation.  Each medium has its own
characteristics of permanence, durability, and response to its
environment.  Effective preservation policy and decision making depend
on understanding these characteristics. This is especially true of newer
media, which will not survive passively as books and manuscripts
largely will.  Also, because most newer media are dependent on
increasingly complex systems for access to their information, there is
little point in discussing physical media, in the context of
preservation,independently of the systems upon which they depend for
access and use.

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The materials and technologies of recorded
information, with emphasis on newer media: printing, photographs,
reprographic processes, motion pictures, video recordings, and
computer storage and output media. The viewpoint of the course is
preservation--both as media to be preserved and as potential
preservation media.  Preservation strategies, including environmental
control and copying, will be discussed.

The course will meet Saturdays, 2-3:50 p.m., from September 21 through
December 21, at New York University's Bobst Library on Washington
Square. The class may be taken for 3 graduate credits, or may be
audited.

For registration and fee information, please e-mail to
PSNYU@AURORA.LIUNET.EDU or phone Shirley Hannigan,
Administrative Assistant, at (212)998-2680



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