Stewardship of Digital Assets
A Workshop on Sustaining Digital Collections

FLICC, in conjunction with the Library of Congress Preservation
Directorate and the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), is
pleased to announce a two-day workshop focusing on sustaining digital
collections.  A faculty of digital experts will teach an interactive,
hands-on workshop at the Library of Congress October 27-28, 2009. 

Workshop topics will include: 
- Assessing your institution’s digital preservation needs
- Tools for determining long-term needs
- Setting priorities
- Developing an institutional digital preservation plan
- Assessing risks to digital media
- Standards
- Tools for preserving digital objects
- Digital preservation policy development
- Case histories

Through a combination of lecture, case studies, and interactive
sessions, participants will learn about the long-term needs of the
digital assets that exist in an institution, and how to plan for their
preservation. 

This course is best suited for participants with existing digital
collections and prior digitization experience.  Participation by
multiple staff from the same agency is encouraged.

Date: October 27-28, 2009
Time: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm both days; lunch included
Location: Library of Congress, Madison Building, Mumford Room
Registration Fee: $400 / $350 for multiple staff from same agency

A FLICC meeting announcement and online registration will be posted to
the FLICC web site soon.  For more information, contact Anne Harrison on
202-707-4834; [log in to unmask]

Workshop Faculty:

Robin L. Dale
Robin L. Dale has recently become the Associate University Librarian
for Collections and Library Information Systems at the University of
California, Santa Cruz.  Until early June 2007, she was a program
officer in RLG Programs, a part of OCLC’s Office of Programs &
Research, for a year.  Prior to the merger of RLG and OCLC, she was a
program officer and Program Manager for Preservation at RLG, as well as
the Associate Editor of RLG DigiNews for nine years. 

From 2005 to early 2007, Robin was also the Project Director of the
Center for Research Libraries Auditing and Certification of Digital
Archives project, a Mellon-funded activity to develop processes to audit
and certify digital archives and repositories.  She co-chaired the RLG
National Archives and Records Administration Digital Repository
Certification task force, which produced the recently released Trusted
Repositories, Audit and Certification: A Checklist (TRAC).  For the last
ten years, her work has focused on digital preservation, preservation
metadata, data curation, and digitization.  

Katherine Skinner
Dr. Katherine Skinner is the Digital Projects Librarian at the Emory
University Libraries and provides leadership for the libraries' digital
projects that are supported through grants or other sponsored funding
sources.  She is a Co-Principal Investigator on the Cyberinfrastructure
for the Humanities project to establish a humanities-based portal
environment, SouthComb.  She also co-directs the MetaArchive
Cooperative, which provides an infrastructure and model for distributed
digital preservation. 

Katherine is a founder and an editorial board member of the
peer-reviewed Internet journal Southern Spaces, and is currently
co-editing a monograph entitled Strategies for Sustaining Digital
Libraries.  Katherine also serves on the Aquifer Services Working Group
committee and the National Digital Information Infrastructure and
Preservation Program's Sustainability Committee.  She received her PhD
in American Studies from Emory University in 2005, and has published on
music, social movements, scholarly publishing practices, and the
emergence of new fields, as well as on digital library topics.

Other faculty TBD

About NEDCC:

Founded in 1973, the NEDCC is a regional conservation center,
specializing in preservation of paper-based materials.  NEDCC’s
services include paper, book, and photograph conservation; preservation
microfilming; photograph duplication; digitization of visual materials;
surveys and consultations; disaster assistance; and workshops and
conferences.   Visit NEDCC’s Web site at www.nedcc.org.