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Apologies for cross posting. From the Cradle to the Grave: The Digital Life Cycle. OCLC PICA Digital & Preservation Resources provide libraries with the flexibility to preserve and manage digital collections via microfilming, digitising, collection management tools and archiving services. You are invited to attend the FREE OCLC PICA Digital Collection and Preservation Workshop being held on Tuesday 15th November at the MLA West Midlands. Agenda - Introduction/Why OCLC PICA? - Environmental Scan/Trends A report to identify and describe issues and trends that are impacting and will impact OCLC PICA, libraries, museums, and archives. Identifying the main patterns in the information landscape and to suggest some implications for its future. - Creation - Strata and Preservation Resources, Bethlehem Strata Preservation N.V. focuses on microfilming and digitising the vulnerable and unique collections of European cultural heritage institutions to make them more accessible. Whilst OCLC's main Preservation Service Centre is based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. - Access - Olive: Digital collection management for newspapers and other formats that preserves cultural context while providing powerful indexing and searching. - CONTENTdm: provides tools to organise, manage, publish and search digital collections on the Web. - Preservation - Digital archive: The Digital Archive offers a safe, reliable, standards- based, long-term solution for the life cycle management of digital collections. To attend the workshop, please send your details, and number of attendees to: [log in to unmask]