[SOA] Fwd: [Asis-l] Digital Preservation program Cleveland Ohio April 7

[Jill Tatem]

Greetings,

Archivists in the northeast Ohio area may find this meeting of interest.

Jill

Jill Tatem
University Archivist
Case Western Reserve University
http://library.case.edu/ksl/archives/


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Penny OConnor <pjo at earthlink.net>
> Date: March 10, 2008 4:14:56 PM EDT
> To: asis-l at asis.org
> Subject: [Asis-l] Digital Preservation program Cleveland Ohio April 7
>
> Save the date for this NORASIST event Monday, April 7, 2008
>
> *****
>
> NORASIST
> the Northern Ohio Chapter,
> American Society for Information Science and Technology
>
> Presents:
> DIGITAL PRESERVATION BASICS:
> How to Ensure Long-Term Access to Your Digital Assets
>
> a talk by:
> DR. KAREN GRACY,
> Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science at  
> Kent State
> University
>
> Monday, April 7, 2008, 6 p.m.
> Hosted by Ernst & Young, 925 Euclid Ave. Suite 1300,
> Cleveland, Ohio 44114-1476,
> (northeast corner of E.9th St. and Euclid)
> Thanks to Ed Dale for arrangements. Convenient parking at nearby  
> Huntington
> Garage
>
> As we digitize more and more of our collections and records, and  
> continue to
> amass large quantities of born-digital resources, we face a critical
> challenge:  how do we maintain access to all of these materials in  
> the face
> of rapid hardware and software obsolescence, and other  
> technological, legal,
> and economic barriers to preservation. This presentation will help you
> understand the critical problems of digital preservation, identify  
> the risks
> to your digital collections, and begin to devise short- and long-term
> strategies for keeping your collections accessible into the future.
>
> Karen F. Gracy is an Assistant Professor in the School of Library and
> Information Science at Kent State University.  She teaches  
> coursework in the
> area of digital preservation and archiving.  She is the author of Film
> Preservation:  Competing Definitions of Value, Use, and Practice, an
> ethnographic study of the moving image archiving community, which was
> published by the Society of American Archivists in 2007.
> ______________________________________________________________________ 
> _
>
> Details on menu and pricing to follow. Reservations essential.
> Deadline is noon Friday, April 4, 2008:
>
> Name:				Organization:
> Address:
>
> e-mail:			phone:
>
> Food preference: ( ) vegetarian
> (  ) Meeting only - free  (  ) Dinner and Meeting, Details on menu and
> pricing to follow
> Send reservations to Athena Salaba asalaba at kent.edu | 330-672-0023
> School of Library & Information Science, Kent State University
> 314 Library, PO Box 5190, Kent, Ohio 44242-0001
>
>
> ____
> 2008 Annual Meeting
> People Transforming Information - Information Transforming People
> October 24-29, 2008, Columbus, Ohio
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