[PADG:1127] ALCTS/PARS Reformatting (Analog/Digital) DG

["Walter Cybulski" <CYBULSKW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ALCTS/PARS Reformatting (Analog/Digital) Discussion Group.  Sunday, January 14, 2001, 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, Senate Room.

Born Analog, Born Digital: The Two Worlds of Selection for Preservation

The discussion group continues to explore preservation reformatting issues in both the analog and digital worlds.  Wes Boomgaarden (Preservation Officer, Ohio State University Libraries), an experienced analogician, will begin with comments on the current state of selection for preservation reformatting and the disposition of materials that have been reformatted.  (Those of you who noted Robert Milewski's question regarding the fate of materials destined for digitization [posted to PADG January 3] might want to contribute to the discussion.)

Following Wes, Margaret Byrnes (Head, Preservation & Collection Management Section, National Library of Medicine) will discuss NLM's system of Permanence Ratings - an example of how one institution plans to indicate to users and other libraries which electronic publications it plans archive.  Many who attended the last DG expressed an interest in finding out more about this.

Ken Thibodeau (Director, Electronic Records Archive Program, National Archives and Records Administration), a distinguished visitor from the Archives profession, will tell us about NARA's Electronic Records Archives Program http://www.nara.gov/era/ and the InterPARES Project (International research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems http://www.interpares.org/.

For additional information, contact Walter Cybulski, National Library of Medicine, 301-496-2690 <walter_cybulski@xxxxxxxxxxx>