ALCTS/LITA Committee Meeting Announcement

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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004
From: Yumin Jiang (Univ. of Colorado Law Lib.)
<Yumin.Jiang_at_Colorado.Edu>
Subject: ALCTS/LITA Committee 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 p.m.
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. A
special 
thank-you goes to Kluwer Academic Publishers for their generous support
of 
this program.

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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