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

[Penny OConnor]

Save the date for this NORASIST event Monday, April 7, 2008

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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.
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Details on menu and pricing to follow. Reservations essential. 
Deadline is noon Friday, April 4, 2008: 

Name:				Organization:
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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