Content & digitization panel symposium free!!!

Event Type: Webinar
Date: 8/25/2010
Start Time: 2:00 PM
End Time: 4:00 PM

Description:

WebJunction is hosting a two-hour symposium that will feature four presentations on current trends and practical approaches to library digitization and preservation projects. Our guest panelists will address:

• Designing a digital preservation system using a framework that includes all stakeholders, from library administrators to archivists to IT workers to vendors.
• The difference between access and preservation tools, and why we need to consider both.
• Harvesting social networking websites for preservation.
• The organizational "long-view" of preservation resources, technology, costs and policies.

Panelists include:

• Sarai Lastra, Vice Chancellor of Information Resources/Director of Virtual Library at Universidad del Turabo, Puerto Rico. Update: Due to an emergency, Sarai unfortunately will not be able to present at Wednesday's symposium.
• Sarah McHugh, Statewide Projects Librarian, Montana State Library, including Montana Memory Project.
• Amy Rudersdorf, Director of the Digital Information Management Program, State Library of North Carolina and lecturer at San Jose State University, School of Library & Information Science.
• Taylor Surface, Senior Product Manager, Digital Collection Services, OCLC.

Library: WebJunction
Location: WebEx

Other Information:

*This event is free.Contact: info@webjunction.org

Link: Event Archives on WebJunction
Status: Openings