Conference on preserving America's printed resources

Preserving America's Printed Resources
Toward a National Collection Management and Preservation Plan
Chicago Historical Society
Chicago, IL
July 21, 2003

In cooperation with the Institute of Museum and Library Services
(IMLS), the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) will host a
conference and planning event to inform and shape a national action
agenda for preserving the nation's printed heritage.

The conference will address a matter of pressing concern to the U.S.
library world in recent years: preservation of the rapidly growing
corpus of printed library materials.  Formulating a viable strategy
to ensure the long-term survival of the nation's important
paper-based collections was identified as a community-wide priority
by the Council on Library and Information Resources in its
influential report The Evidence in Hand.  In 2001, following
Nicholson Baker's criticism of library preservation of newspapers in
his book Double Fold, the Library of Congress called for a national
preservation planning conference to focus on "printed materials in
original format".

The conference Preserving America's Printed Resources will take
place in Chicago on July 21, 2003.  Conferees will explore
high-level preservation strategies affecting multiple libraries and
broad sectors of the community.  The program will bring together a
slate of presenters from the U.S. and abroad who are actively
engaged in major repository and "collection of record" programs.
Such programs range from the American Antiquarian Society's pre-1876
American imprints preservation program to efforts to rationalize
"last-copy" preservation among Australian university libraries.
Presenters will detail the successes and innovations of existing
inter-institutional efforts, and propose realistic cooperative
measures that might build upon those efforts to ensure the long-term
survival of printed heritage materials.

The conference is for librarians, archivists, preservation planners,
collection development officers, policymakers, and others involved
in managing print collections of long-term research value.  The
event will provide new information about existing cooperative
efforts, to inform local decision-making and facilitate moving from
the current state of independent, regional and local repository
initiatives to a coordinated, community-wide print preservation
effort.

Confirmed presenters include:

    Willis Bridegam, Five Colleges
    Ellen Dunlap, American Antiquarian Society
    Deanna Marcum and Abby Smith, CLIR
    Robert Martin, IMLS
    Steve O'Connor, CAVAL
    Brian Schottlaender, University of California at San Diego
    William Walker, New York Public Library
    Nancy Davenport, Library of Congress
    Dan Greenstein, California Digital Library
    Pentti Vatulainen, Finnish National Repository Library

Admission to the conference is free with confirmed registration.
Conference registration and expanded program information will be
posted at <URL:http://www.crl.edu> on April 1, 2003.

If
you have any other questions, contact

    Tracy Rosenberg
    rosenberg [at] crl__edu
    773-955-4545 ext: 317


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