Please join us for digital preservation and digital curation interest group meetings at ALA Annual in Anaheim, June 2012

[Patricia Hswe]

The Digital Curation Interest Group (ACRL), Digital Conversion Interest Group (ALCTS PARS), Intellectual Access to Preservation Metadata Interest Group (ALCTS PARS), and Digital Preservation Interest Group (ALCTS PARS) are pleased to announce the results of their collaboratively planned business meetings for 2012 ALA Annual in Anaheim, CA. All the below business meetings occur in the same hotel.

Below is the schedule for the following Interest Group Business Meeting Discussions at ALA Annual. Full details can also be found online at: http://goo.gl/rZ0wr

SATURDAY, June 23rd, 2012

10:30 am-12:00 pm
Digital Curation Interest Group (ACRL)
Location: HYATT-Grand Ballroom E
Meeting Summary:
DataBib: An Online Bibliography of Research Data Repositories (Michael Witt, Research Librarian & Assistant Professor, Purdue University, D2C2)
Collaborative Approaches to Digital Curation (Jared Lyle, ICPSR, University of Michigan, Libbie Stephenson, Director, UCLA Social Science Data Archive, Ron Nakao, Data Specialist, Stanford Libraries)

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Digital Conversion Interest Group (ALCTS - PARS)
Location: HYATT-Grand Ballroom E
Meeting Summary:
Adventures in Digital Curation (Meg Meiman, Coordinator, Undergraduate Research Program, University of Delaware)
Starting Small: Practical First Steps in Digital Preservation (Helen K. Bailey, Preservation Specialist, Dartmouth College Library)

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Intellectual Access to Preservation Metadata Interest Group (ALCTS - PARS)
Location: HYATT-Pacific Room
Meeting Summary:
Editing and Embedding Audio-Visual Metadata with MetaEdit (Chris Lacinak, President, AudioVisual Preservation Solutions)
Discover the Technical Metadata in your Still Image Digital Files (Joan DaShiell, Product Manager for Digitization Services, Preservation Services Center, Backstage Library Works, Bethlehem, PA)

SUNDAY, June 24th, 2012
8:00 am - 10:00 am
Digital Preservation Interest Group (ALCTS - PARS)
Location: HYATT-Pacific Room
Meeting Summary:
Collecting Born-Digital Materials from the Web: It’s a CINCH! (Lisa Gregory, Digital Projects Liaison, Digital Information Management Program, State Library of North Carolina)
The Web is a Mess: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Web Archiving (Lori Donovan, Partner Specialist, Internet Archive)

The IG Chairs:
Digital Curation Interest Group (ACRL) - Chairs: Marisa Ramirez, Patricia Hswe and Yasmeen Shorish (Recorder)
Digital Conversion Interest Group (ALCTS PARS) - Chairs: Martha Horan & Kevin O'Sullivan
Preservation Metadata Interest Group (ALCTS PARS) – Chairs: Meghan Banach Bergin & Shawn Averkamp
Digital Preservation Interest Group (ALCTS PARS) – Chairs: Amy E. Rudersdorf & Sibyl Schaefer

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Patricia Hswe, MSLIS, PhD
Digital Collections Curator

Penn State University Libraries

W311 Pattee Library
University Park, PA 16802
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IM: pm...@chat.psu.edu
Phone: 814-867-3702
Fax: 814-865-3665

http://patriciahswe.net/

[Susan Wells Parham]

This year it was between ALA & OR'12. You can guess which one won
out.

Susan