From: "Jagodzinski, Cecile" <cjagodzi_at_indiana.edu>
ALCTS Forum: A Conversation on Digital Preservation
Monday, June 26, 8 - 10 am, Morial Convention Center, Room 353/355
Preservation of e-journal content has become a pressing concern as
more and more libraries drop print copies of journals to rely on their
electronic counterparts. On September 13, 2005 a group of academic
librarians, university administrators, and others participated in a
meeting at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation offices in New York where
they discussed electronic journal preservation. As a result of this
important meeting, the document “Urgent Action Needed to Preserve
Scholarly Electronic Journals”
(http://www.diglib.org/pubs/waters051015.htm) was issued to the
scholarly communications community at large. The document has been
endorsed by the Association of Research Libraries, ACRL, ALCTS, and
the Medical Library Association, among others, and calls for action on
four key points:
* preservation of electronic journals is a kind of insurance
* qualified preservation archives would provide a minimal set of
well-defined services
* libraries must invest in a qualified archiving solution
* research and academic libraries and associated academic
institutions must effectively demand archival deposit by publishers as
a condition of licensing electronic journals
Speakers
* Moderator: Robert Kieft, Librarian of the College, Haverford
College
* Gordon Tibbitts, President, Blackwell Publishing Inc. (US)
* Robert H. McDonald, Associate Director of Libraries for
Technology and Research, Florida State University
The panel will address issues and raise questions like the following:
How can libraries and publishers move from a philosophical
understanding of the necessity of digital preservation to productive
and concerted action? What can libraries do to encourage publisher
involvement? How will libraries and publishers collaborate to support
community initiatives? And what are the economic issues involved in
building a secure future for a digital history?
ALCTS Forums are designed to provide the opportunity to hear experts
discuss important topics of current concern to the ALCTS community.
The second hour of the forum is reserved for questions from the floor
and for broad-ranging discussion.
Received on Fri Jun 09 2006 - 01:23:12 EDT