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Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004
From: Yumin Jiang (Univ. of Colorado) <Yumin.Jiang_at_Colorado.Edu>
Subject: Meeting Announcement
Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Serials Section Education Committee, with
apologies for duplicate announcements:
Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS) : A Solution for Archiving and
Accessing Web Materials
ALA Annual, Orlando
Date: Saturday, June 26, 2004
Time: 1:30-3:30 pm
Location: Renaissance Orlando Resort, Crystal Ballroom E
Librarians have always been concerned with ensuring permanent access to our
collections. We know that easy access to information often depends on
redundancy --i.e., "lots of copies". The shift to electronic materials
that are often leased rather than owned has increased our concerns about
long-term access.
A new system called LOCKSS enables libraries to collect and locally store,
preserve, and archive authorized content by creating low-cost, persistent
digital caches of authoritative versions of web-based content. Through
LOCKSS, librarians have the opportunity to retain local control of
electronic content while preserving its original functionality.
This program, co-sponsored by the ALCTS Serials Section Education Committee
and the LITA Open Source Systems Interest Group, will present an overview
of LOCKSS, including its philosophy, technology, and current development.
The program will explain why LOCKSS is so important, what it can do for
libraries, and how libraries can participate. The featured speaker will
be Thomas Robertson, Technical Manager, LOCKSS Program, Stanford
University Libraries and Academic Resources. He will be followed by two
panelists, Martin Halbert (Director for Library Systems, Emory University)
and Thomas Izbicki (Collection Development Coordinator, Johns Hopkins
University). Jeffrey Horrell (Associate Librarian of Harvard College
Collections, Harvard University) will serve as moderator.
We hope that librarians who work in collection development,
serials/acquisitions, metadata and digital resources, preservation,
systems, or library administration, as well as publishers and information
vendors--really, anyone interested in long-term access to electronic
resources--will be able to attend.
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Yumin Jiang (Ms.)
Technical Services Librarian
University of Colorado Law Library
UCB 402, Fleming Law Building
2405 Kittredge Loop Drive
Boulder, CO 80309
Phone: 303-492-2706
Fax: 303-492-2707
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