Workshop on scanning

The early bird deadline for the School for Scanning Chicago, with
its corresponding registration discount, is April 14, 1999.

School for Scanning: Chicago Issues of Preservation and Access for
Paper-Based Collections

June 2-4, 1999 Presented by the Northeast Document Conservation
Center At the Chicago Historical Society, Clark Street at North
Avenue, Chicago, IL

The conference is funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
and the National Endowment for the Humanities.  It is cosponsored by
The Getty Information Institute, the Chicago Historical Society, the
National Park Service.

What is the School for Scanning?  This conference provides a
rationale for the use of digital technology by managers of
paper-based collections in cultural institutions.  Specifically, it
equips participants to discern the applicability of digital
technology in their given circumstances and prepares them to make
critical decisions regarding management of digital projects.
Although technical issues will be addressed, this is not a
technician training program.  Conference content will include:

    Developing Institutional Infrastructures to Support Digital
        Initiatives Content Selection for Digitization Text and
        Image Scanning Quality Control and Costs Copyright, Fair
        Use, and Other Legal Issues Surrounding Digital Technology
        The Essentials of Metadata Digital Preservation: Theory and
        Reality Maximizing the Utility of Digital Information

Who Should Attend?  Administrators within cultural institutions, as
well as librarians, archivists, curators, and other cultural or
natural resource managers dealing with paper-based collections,
including photographs, will find the School for Scanning conference
highly relevant and worthwhile. Since the complexion of this
conference evolves with the technology, it would be beneficial to
attend even if you have participated in a previous School for
Scanning.  An audience of 150 or more attendees is expected.

Who Are the Faculty?  Steve Dalton, NEDCC; Howard Besser, UCLA;
Steve Chapman, Harvard University; Paul Conway, Yale University
Library; Matthew Cook, Chicago Historical Society; Richard Ekman,
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Franziska Frey, Image Permanence
Institute; Anne Gilliland-Swetland, UCLA; Melissa Smith Levine,
Library of Congress; Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked
Information; Wendy Lougee, University of Michigan; Jan
Merrill-Oldham, Harvard University; Marc Pachter, Smithsonian
Institution; John Price-Wilkin, University of Michigan; Steve
Puglia, National Archives and Records Administration; Bernard
Reilly, Chicago Historical Society; Abby Smith, Council on Library
and Information Resources; Roy Tennant, University of California at
Berkeley and Diane Vogt-O'Connor, National Park Service.

What does the conference cost?  The cost of the conference is $265
for early bird registration, post marked by April 14, 1999, and $335
for late registration, deadline May 12, 1999.  Participants will
also be responsible for all their travel and lodging costs.
Registration applications will be accepted on a
first-come-first-served basis.

For more information or to request a flier, a copy of the flier is
posted on NEDCC's web site at <URL:http://www.nedcc.org/> or contact
Ginny Hughes <ghughes [at] nedcc__org>.

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