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**************************************** DigCCurr2007: An International Symposium on Digital Curation Focus: “What Digital Curators Do and What They Need to Know” April 18-20, 2007 Chapel Hill, North Carolina http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2007/ ***************************************** REGISTRATION INFORMATION: Register March 2 - April 20, 2007 $300.00 (US) http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2007/registration.html ***************************************** INTRODUCTION: The School of Information and Library Science <http://sils.unc.edu> (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host DigCCurr2007, an international symposium on Digital Curation, April 18 – 20, 2007. This two-day event is part of the “Preserving Access to Our Digital Future: Building an International Digital Curation” project funded by the Institute of Museum of Library Services (IMLS). The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is a partner in this effort. DigCCurr2007 will focus on what digital curators do and what they need to know to carry out this work and each speaker is asked to address these issues in their presentation. ***************************************** AUDIENCE: Anyone interested in digital preservation and curation, especially those who are building staff capacity in these areas. ***************************************** CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS Helen R. Tibbo, School of Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill Christopher A. Lee, School of Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill John Schaefer, School of Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill ***************************************** ADVISORY BOARD: Advisory Board members include: Stephen Chapman, Harvard University; Adrian Cunningham, National Archives of Australia; Robin Dale, RLG/OCLC; Wendy Duff, University of Toronto; Philip Eppard, SUNY-Albany; Anne Gilliland, UCLA; Maria Guercio, University of Urbino; Hans Hofman, Nationaal Archief (National Archives) of the Netherlands and ERPANET; Anne Kenney, Cornell University Library; Steve Knight, National Library of New Zealand; Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information; Richard Marciano, San Diego Super Computer Center; Seamus Ross, University of Glasgow; Don Sawyer, NASA; Kenneth Thibodeau, National Archives and Records Administration; Raymond van Diessen, IBM, The Netherlands; Elizabeth Yakel, University of Michigan. ***************************************** CONFERENCE SOCIAL EVENTS: All-conference opening reception, 6:00 – 7:30 PM, Wednesday, April 18th Working lunch, 12:15 – 1:45, Thursday, April 19th All-conference reception, 5:30 – 7:00 PM, Thursday, April 19th Working lunch, 12:00 – 1:30, Friday, April 20h ***************************************** CONFERENCE LOCATION: The opening reception will be held in The Wilson Library on UNC’s main campus. All sessions, lunches, and the Thursday evening reception will be held at The William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, located on Route 54 in Chapel Hill, NC. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Please see: http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr. Dr. Helen R. Tibbo, Professor School of Information and Library Science 201 Manning Hall University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 [log in to unmask] Tel: 919.962.8063 Fax: 919.962.8071 ***************************************************************************** A posting from ERECS-L, an edited listserv for discussions about the preservation and management of records in electronic form. [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe from this list, send the following one line message: UNSUB ERECS-L to: [log in to unmask] Access the list archive at: http://listserv.albany.edu:8080/archives/erecs-l.html ******************************************************************************