ALA Annual Conference,
Chicago
ALCTS/PARS
Preservation Administration Discussion
Group
Friday, June 24, 2005
2:00-5:00 P.M.
Palmer House Hilton,
Wabash Parlor (3rd floor)
2 -
3:20 Automating
Preservation: Voices from the
Field
Tyra
Grant, Preservation Librarian, Northwestern
University
Will report about Northwestern's development and use of the Kirtas robotic
page-turning
book scanner. (http://www.kirtas-tech.com/index.asp)
Cathy
Aster, Project Manager, Digital
Services Group, Stanford
University
Will report about the Digitizing Line automatic book
scanner.
(http://www.4digitalbooks.com/
and
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/dlp/bookscanning)
Sayeed
Choudhury, Associate Director for Library Digital Programs, Johns Hopkins
University
Will report about CAPM (Comprehensive Access to Printed Materials), a project to
develop robotics, automated systems and software to enhance access in the JHU
romote
storage facility. (http://ldp.library.jhu.edu/projects/capm)
3:20-3:30
New ALA Conference
Schedule
Yvonne
Carignan, Past Chair, PARS
3:30 -
4 Break and Poster
Session
4 -
4:45 Mass
Deacidification: New LC Research on the Extension of Paper
Life
Chandru
Shahani, Chief, Preservation Research and Testing Division, Library of
Congress
Will report about a newly developed accelerated aging test and experiments to
determine
the extension-of-life benefit derived from mass deacidification of
paper.
4:45 -
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