[padg] ALA digital preservation discussion group REMINDER

["Cathleen Martyniak" <cathy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

 

Hope you had a lovely Holiday break.  Once you get back to your desks and settle into some serious ALA prep, please add the PARS Digital Preservation Discussion group (details and agenda below) to your schedules.  The discussion led by Ms. Rieger is sure to be a highlight of the conference and we would not want you to miss it.

 

Travel safe and see you in a week!!

 

Cathy and Becky

 

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PARS Digital Preservation Discussion Group

Sunday, January 13th from 8:00 am to 10:00 am

Radisson, Crystal Ballroom

 

AGENDA:

 

Welcome and Introduction of Chairs

 

Updates:

 

·        Digital Preservation conference at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek http://www.kb.nl/hrd/congressen/toolstrends/index-en.html  (overview Liz Bishoff) 5 min

·        National Science Foundation granting program   (overview Mary Molinaro) 5 min

·         Digital Curation Conference (See http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2007/ ) (overview Mary Molinaro) 5 min

·        NEDCC digital preservation surveys (Ann Russell) 3 min

·        Digital Preservation Definition and digital preservation listserv updates (Cathy Martyniak) 5 min

 

Preservation in the age of large scale digitization. 

 

Please read the September 2007 CLIR white paper at http://www.clir.org/activities/details/lsdi.pdf ahead of time.

 

**Our special guest speaker for this part of the discussion group will be the author of the paper, Ms. Oya Rieger!!**

 

 

File Formats 101: why do they matter to you?

 

Presentation by Laurie Taylor, University of Florida Digital Projects Librarian

 

 

Wrap Up: Agenda topics for next time?

 

 

Co-Chairs:

Becky Ryder, University of Kentucky  rjryde01@xxxxxxx

Cathy Martyniak, University of Florida  cathy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

 

 

Cathleen L. Martyniak

Chair, Preservation Department

University of Florida Smathers Libraries

Gainesville, FL 32611

(voice) 352 273 2830

(fax) 352 392 6597

(email) cathy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx