[PADG:1425] Draft Principles for Digitized Content

["M. Claire Stewart" <claire-stewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[Cross-posting, apologies for duplication]

In January of 2007, the Task Force on Digitization Policy of ALA's 
Office for Information Technology Policy introduced the draft 
Principles for Digitized Content. The goal of the principles is to 
succinctly voice the primary policy areas that can guide libraries as 
they make decisions regarding digitization. The nine principles are 
now available on the ALA blog site at 
http://blogs.ala.org/digitizationprinciples.php. The blog is an 
online area for your comments on the Principles, and we invite you to 
read them and give us your ideas. The blog will be accepting your 
comments until May 1, 2007. Comments from individuals are welcome, 
but if you are posting for an ALA Unit, please so indicate in your 
text.

The goal, after a review and comment period, is a concise document 
that would be officially adopted by ALA as a statement of where 
libraries stand on the policy issues raised by widespread 
digitization of library materials. The Task Force would like to 
present this document for approval by ALA Council at the 2007 annual 
conference in Washington, D.C.

Printable copies of the principles document, a list of Task Force 
members, and other background documents are available at:
http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/contactwo/oitp/digtask.htm

Thank you!
The OITP Task Force on Digitization Policy
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M. Claire Stewart
Acting Head, Marjorie I. Mitchell Multimedia Center
Coordinator of Digitization Projects, Northwestern University Library
(847) 467-1437
claire-stewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://hdl.handle.net/2166/claire
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