October Preservation Tip

Need something to listen to on your commute, at your desk, or while folding laundry? The Preservation Committee would like to share a few podcast episodes related to preservation topics. We hope that they are both entertaining and informative!

1. Brattlecast- Episode 12: Ken Gloss, of the Brattle Book Shop, shares his tips on the care and conservation of antiquarian books.

2. Curious Minds- Digital Preservation and the Domesday Project: Two case studies on digital preservation projects for the 11th century Domesday Book.

3. Dewey Decibel- Episode 1: Discussions on preservation topics in honor of ALCTS Preservation Week 2016.

4. Dewey Decibel- Episode 23:  Interviews with organizations working with preserving moving-images and historical cinema.

5. Dewey Decibel- Episode 25:  Interviews with librarians on their disaster response experience and advice.

If you have topics you would like to see highlighted, or suggestions for resources, please send them to Nariné Bournoutian at nbournoutian@law.columbia.edu. Tips from previous months are available here.

September Preservation Tip

This month’s preservation tip features LYRASIS’s Preservation pages. Among their various offerings are pages of preservation publications and resources and digital toolboxes for digitization. LYRASIS also has a mix of free and paid preservation training webinars/classes and links to current grant projects.

If you have topics you would like to see highlighted, or suggestions for resources, please send them to Nariné Bournoutian at nbournoutian@law.columbia.edu. Tips from previous months are available here.

Fall 2018 Preservation-Related Conferences worth checking out

Today I am highlighting several conferences coming up this Fall which might be valuable to those interested in preservation.

The first conference is iPRES 2018 the International Conference on Digital Preservation, September 24-27 in Boston, MA. According to their website:

iPRES is the premier and longest-running conference series on digital preservation… Our conference brings together 300-400 scientists, students, researchers, archivists, librarians, providers, and other experts to share recent developments, innovative projects and to collaboratively solve problems.

The iPRES conference rotates around the world, so this is your last chance to catch it in the U.S. until it comes back again in 2021. The conference features practical workshops, as well as papers, panels, and poster sessions.

The next conferences are the DLF Forum, October 15-17, and Digital Preservation, October 17-18, both in Las Vegas, NV. Last year I had the opportunity to attend these conferences on an LLNE Scholarship and wrote a blog post about it.

I would highly recommend attending either or both of these conferences. Even if you don’t have the opportunity to attend the DLF Forum, I would recommend visiting the Digital Library Federation website, checking out their activities, sign up for their listservs, and seeing what they have to offer. This is an especially great resource for law librarians working in digitization, digital scholarship, and preservation information and want to look at what other libraries are doing.

I should also note that LIPA is a sponsor of the Digital Preservation conference – one more great reason to check it out.