LIPA Digital Projects Registry – Your Platform, Your Inspiration

LIPA’s mission is, in part, to provide the opportunity for libraries to work collaboratively on preservation projects and to take advantage of the partnerships created by the organization. In 2015, the LIPA Digital Inventory Task Group, under the leadership of Melanie Dunshee, launched the Survey on Digitization Projects. From this Survey, LIPA built a registry of digital projects to share expertise and to publicize and promote the work of members and libraries.

View the Digital Projects Registry! February is a great month to gain inspiration and find ideas for digitization from the work of your colleagues. If you are starting, working on, or have completed a digitization project, please add your information to the Registry. Projects include government documents – UK documents, session laws; special collections – letters, correspondence, the Clarence Darrow Digital Collection; law school publications, historical legal books, and much more.

Have you wondered what type of scanner, camera, and software you should use? Contributors also offer advice and tips they learned from their projects. Currently 48 projects are available to view. Thank you to all the contributors!

National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) Symposium

The National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) will hold a Symposium on April 27-28, 2017 in Washington, D.C. It will be free and open to the public and aims to: discuss and create standardized guidelines based on previous NDSR evaluations; develop sustainability strategies; expand the geographic reach of NDSR; foster a digital preservation community of practice; and raise awareness of the NDSR program.

This symposium is being funded by a grant from Institute of Museum and Library Services, and presented by The Metropolitan New York Library Council, in partnership with WGBH.

See  https://ndsr-program.org/ndsr-symposium/ for more information.

LIPA at the Digital Library Federation Forum and NDSA’s Digital Preservation 2016

Margie Maes, LIPA executive director, attended the 2016 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum in Milwaukee, WI, November 7-9. In January 2016, DLF became the institutional home of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA). LIPA has been a member of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA), a consortium of organizations committed to the long-term preservation of digital information, since 2011. 

Digital Preservation, the major meeting and conference of the NDSA, followed the DLF Forum on November 9-10. Margie Maes served on the Digital Preservation 2016 Program Committee and chaired the Poster ‘Minute Madness’ session on Thursday evening.  LIPA was a bronze sponsor of the DLF Forum and Digital Preservation 2016. 

The Digital Preservation 2016 programs addressed the technical and policy issues surrounding preservation of digital resources. The full program for Digital Preservation is available here and presentations are available on the conference repository.

Several programs of interest:

– KEEPS – A System for UELMA Preservation and Security – highlighted the process that the Minnesota Office of Revisor of Statutes uses to implement components of UELMA.

– Teaching the Masses about Research Data Management, Curation, & Preservation – Dr. Helen Tibbo discussed Project CRADLE (Curating Research Assets and Data using Lifecycle Education). She teaches a class using Coursera platform that discusses understanding research data, data management planning, and working, sharing, and archiving data. The course is free with a certificate available for a small fee.