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Preserving digital resources: challenges and solutions
There are still places available to attend the following one day training
session on 2nd May 2002
To register online:
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Because digital information is being produced so much more rapidly than
other forms, libraries (and archives) of the future will inevitably be
libraries (and archives) of digital content. Just to keep pace with the
flood of new digital information, the library of the near future will
require the means to collect, make available, store and preserve digital
information in the digital domain.
Primarily due to their dependence on a rapidly changing technological
infrastructure, digital resources are significantly less permanent than
their paper-based equivalents. Their enduring accessibility into the
future is far from assured.
Presented by Alan Howell, Manager, Preservation and Storage Division, State
Library of Victoria, this one-day workshop will -
- raise awareness about the preservation of digital information
- explain the issues that cause digital resources to be inherently
impermanent
- provide a roadmap to the emerging solutions in libraries and archives
- discuss practical recommendations to avoid the 'technological quicksand'
- give participants the information and tools to keep in touch on this
issue
Alan Howell
Alan Howell is Manager of the Preservation and Storage Division at the
State Library of Victoria. He is also an honorary member of the
International Advisory Group to PADI (Preserving Access to Digital
Information) project at the National Library of Australia and honorary
member of the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Committee
(representing libraries).
Alan Howell is particularly interested in facilitating effective policy and
operational programs that bring together access to and preservation of
documentary heritage; initiating and sustaining networks and relationships
between preservation stakeholders; and presenting talks, papers and
structured training sessions on the preservation of documentary heritage to
university students, professional groups and further and adult education
students. A web site on these interests is maintained at
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~aghowell.
Cost $440 ($396.00 for CAVAL and ALIA members)
9.30 am - 4.30 pm Thursday 2nd May
Monday 2nd September
CAVAL COLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS,
4 PARK DRIVE BUNDOORA VIC 3083
Register: online at http://www.caval.edu.au/Services/rego_form.html
For further information: please contact Eve Cornish ([log in to unmask])
Eve Cornish,
Administrator, Acquisitions & Training
CAVAL Collaborative Solutions
4 Park Drive, Bundoora. Vic. 3083
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