Photo credit: Northeast Document Conservation Center Interested in starting a digital preservation project? Don’t know how to begin? Consider attending the Northeast Document Conservation Center’s Digital Directions: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections conference. On the agenda is programming on best practices, copyright considerations, and suggestions for creating archival collections of specific content, including born-digital. It’s being held August 1

For those LIPA members looking to learn more about preservation they can apply to their library’s collection, both the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) and LYRASIS have several offerings.  The NEDCC is a non-profit organization that specializes exclusively in the conservation and preservation of paper and film-based collections.  The NEDCC provides professional conservation treatment for books, maps, photographs, documents, parchment, papyrus, manuscripts, archi