[PADG:1962] Announcement - Preserving America's Print Resources - July 21, 2003 - Chicago

["Tracy Rosenberg" <rosenberg@xxxxxxx>]

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Join us in Chicago!

Preserving America’s Printed Resources

A Conference Organized by the Center for Research Libraries

Chicago, Illinois

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 shape and advance a national action agenda for preserving the nation’s printed heritage.  

The conference will address a pressing concern of the U.S. library world in recent years: effective management 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, and by the Library of Congress in its call for a national preservation planning conference to focus on “printed materials in original format.” 

In response to these calls, the Center for Research Libraries will hold a conference in Chicago on July 21, 2003.  The event will focus on the role of regional- and national-level repositories in enabling coordinated management and preservation of library collections of traditional materials.  The program will bring together a slate of presenters from the U.S. and abroad who have been actively engaged in cooperative storage and preservation efforts at the regional and national levels.  Presenters will detail the successes and limitations of existing inter-institutional efforts, and propose realizable cooperative measures that can build upon those efforts to ensure the long-term survival of printed heritage materials.  

The conference will also include policymakers from the library, higher education and funding communities whose expertise and cooperation will be brought to bear on a national preservation strategy.  Participants and presenters 

will determine how best to move 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), and 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 www.crl.edu on April 1, 2003.  Contact Tracy Rosenberg at rosenberg@xxxxxxx or (773) 955-4545 x 317 if you have other questions.