ALCTS webinar: From the Digital Dark Ages to a Digital Renaissance: The
Art of Selecting Digital Content to Preserve (Oct. 10, 2012)
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ALCTS-CE Announce <alcts.ce.announce_at_gmail.com>
*Apologies in advance for multiple postings.*
ALCTS webinar: From the Digital Dark Ages to a Digital Renaissance: The
Art of Selecting Digital Content to Preserve
Date: October 10, 2012
All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11am Pacific, noon
Mountain, 1pm Central, and 2pm Eastern time.
This webinar focuses on the basic first questions we all must answer in
order to begin developing a digital preservation program: What digital
content do we have, and what are we responsible for preserving? We begin
by identifying all of the digital content that might be within our scope
of responsibility. Then we explore strategies for appraisal,
prioritization, and acquisition to refine the scope of selecting which
digital content should be included in our preservation program.
This is the first session of a two part series titled "From the Digital
Dark Ages to a Digital Renaissance." Part 2, The Role of Long-Term
Storage in Digital Curation, will be held November 14, 2012.
Learning Outcomes: This session covers key terms, standards, and
concepts related to digital preservation and equips participants with
planning strategies for developing a digital preservation plan/program.
Who Should Attend? Technical services librarians with beginning
knowledge of digital preservation and an interest in or responsibility
for the preservation/stewardship/management of digital content.
Presenters:
Brenda J. Miller is curator of the Hartford History Center at Hartford
Public Library. The Hartford History Center is home to the Hartford
Collection, a non-circulating, multi-media collection comprised of more
than 50,000 books, trade publications, directories, postcards,
photographs and memorabilia that convey community life in Hartford
spanning nearly 300 years. Brenda holds a B.A. in History from the
University of Connecticut and a M.A. in American Studies, Museums,
Archives and Communities, from Trinity College, Hartford. Prior to
serving as curator of the library's special collections and archive, she
coordinated the library's very successful One Book for Greater Hartford,
an annual regional literary program begun in 2002 to initiate community
conversation around the reading of one book; and, Poetry Central, a
poetry series that gave voice to classical and notable American poetry
through dramatic readings and musical interpretation. She began her
career as a journalist serving as editor for a Greater Hartford
community newspaper group published under the Imprint banner.
Sarah Rhodes is the Digital Collections Librarian at the Georgetown
University Law Library. She manages the Georgetown Law Center's digital
institutional repository, Web harvesting projects, a dataset repository
in support of empirical legal scholarship, and the Chesapeake Group, a
digital archive for the preservation of born-digital legal information,
shared by the Georgetown, Harvard, Maryland State, and Virginia State
Law Libraries. She has presented digital preservation webinars on behalf
of the Legal Information Preservation Alliance and has given
presentations, participated in panel discussions, and facilitated
workshops for the American Association of Law Libraries, Computers in
Libraries, Electronic Resources & Libraries, and the Canadian
Association for Information Science.
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Single Webinar Registration Fees: $39 ALCTS Member; $49 Non-member; $39
International; $99 Group (a group of people that will watch it together).
Check the ALCTS Web site for discount pricing for the entire webinar series.
For additional information and access to registrations links, please go
to the following website:
http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/pres/101012
ALCTS webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the
recording shortly following the live event.
For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling
1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration_at_ala.org
<mailto:registration_at_ala.org>. For all other questions or comments
related to the webinars, contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager at
1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or alctsce_at_ala.org <mailto:alctsce_at_ala.org>.
Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.
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John P. Abbott, MS MSLS
Associate Professor & Coordinator, Collection Management
University Library
Appalachian State University
ASU Box 32026
218 College Street
Boone, NC 28608
828-262-2821 (vox)
828-262-2773 (fax)
abbottJP_at_appstate.edu
Received on Thu Sep 27 2012 - 09:04:58 EDT