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Subject: [PADG:1963] Announcement - Preserving America's Printed 
Resources -July 21, 2003 - Chicago, IL (Revised)

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Preserving America&#8217;s Printed 
Resources Toward a 
National Collection Management and Preservation Plan <SPAN 
lang=en-us>Chicago, Illinois <SPAN 
lang=en-us>July 21, 2003 <SPAN 
lang=en-us>  <SPAN 
lang=en-us>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&#8217;s printed heritage.  

  <SPAN 
lang=en-us>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&#8217;s important paper-based 
collections was identified as a community-wide priority by the Council on 
Library and Information Resources in its influential report <FONT 
face=Arial size=2>The Evidence in Hand.  
In 2001, following Nicholson Baker&#8217;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 &#8220;printed materials in 
original format.&#8221; 
  <SPAN 
lang=en-us>The conference <FONT face=Arial 
size=2>Preserving America&#8217;s Printed Resources <FONT face=Arial 
size=2>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 &#8220;collection of record&#8221; programs.  Such programs range from the American 
Antiquarian Society&#8217;s pre-1876 American imprints preservation program to efforts 
to rationalize &#8220;last-copy&#8221; 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.  
  <SPAN 
lang=en-us>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. 
  <SPAN 
lang=en-us>Confirmed presenters include: 
Willis Bridegam (Five 
Colleges), Ellen Dunlap (American Antiquarian Society), Deanna Marcum and Abby 
Smith (CLIR), Robert Martin (IMLS), Steve O&#8217;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 <A 
href=""><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial 
size=2>www.crl.edu<FONT face=Arial 
size=2> on April 1, 2003. Contact Tracy Rosenberg at rosenberg@xxxxxxx or (773) 
955-4545 x 317 if you have other 
questions.