Top Ten Digital Preservation Developments of 2012, According to the Library of Congress

The Library of Congress maintains a wonderful  blog called The Signal: Digital Preservation.   This blog reports on many facets of digital stewardship and maintains links to publications and resources, partnerships and collaborations, toolkits for local projects, educational opportunities, and covers other topics of interest to preservationists. Interested people may subscribe to the blog, the newsletter , or their twitter feed. This week, the blog reports on their take on the  “Top 10 Digital Preservation Developments of 2012”.

Among the developments of interest to law librarians:  States of Sustainability: A Review of State Projects funded by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. Dr. Cal Lee conducted a review of the four NDIIPP-funded Preserving State Government Information projects, which worked with 35 states to demonstrate different approaches to preserving and making available state government digital information. The report highlights innovative projects lead by the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records, the Washington State Archives, the Minnesota Historical Society and the  North Carolina Center for Geographic Information and Analysis.

Demystifying Born Digital Reports. OCLC Research issued two important reports, You’ve Got to Walk Before You Can Run: First Steps for Managing Born-Digital Content Received on Physical Media (PDF), and Swatting the Long Tail of Digital Media: A Call for Collaboration (PDF).

End of Term Web Archive. The End of Term 2012 project got underway to capture U.S. Government websites between the first and second administration of President Barack Obama. Project partners include the California Digital Library, Internet Archive, Library of Congress, University of North Texas Libraries and the U.S. Government Printing Office.

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/01/top-10-digital-preservation-developments-of-2012/

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REMINDER: LIPA meeting at AALS

There will be a meeting of the Legal Information Preservation Alliance held during the upcoming AALS conference in New Orleans.  The meeting will be onSaturday, January 5, from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. in Room 151 of the Tulane Law School.  Pastries and juice will be available, courtesy of our host James Duggan.  (If you are a coffee drinker, please bring your own!)

Our agenda includes an update on projects and services plus a discussion of LIPA member communications and a planned member survey.  A significant portion of the agenda will be devoted to the recently announced LIPA/NELLCO PALMPrint project (Preserving America’s Legal Materials in Print).  We hope to see many LIPA and NELLCO members at the meeting for this opportunity to discuss the project details and answer questions.

Thanks to those of you who replied to my earlier message and indicated that you planned to be there.  If you have not already replied to me and you do plan to attend the meeting, please let me know off-list at mkmaes@gmail.com.

Tulane Law School is located at 6329 Freret Street, approximately four blocks north of the main campus location (and street car stop) on St. Charles Avenue (see campus map, http://tulane.edu/about/visiting/uptown-campus-map.cfm; the Law School is Weinmann Hall, Building #32 ).  Tulane University fronts St. Charles Avenue (Across from Audubon Park) in Uptown New Orleans. Tulane is about 5 miles from downtown and the French Quarter. From Tulane, one can take the St. Charles Avenue streetcar to the French Quarter and the CBD, or get on the streetcar at Canal Blvd. or anywhere else along the route to go to Tulane, for $1.25 each way. It takes approximately 25-30 minutes to get from downtown to Tulane by streetcar. Your best bet is probably a cab ride from downtown to Tulane, and  is estimated to cost about $10-$15. 

Driving Directions:  If you are driving from the Hilton Riverside (2 Poydras St.) Take Poydras Street to St. Charles Ave.  Turn left on St. Charles Ave.  Follow St. Charles Ave. for about 3.5 miles to State Street.  Turn right on State Street.  Turn left at Freret Street.  Law School will be on your right (6329 Freret). 

Parking:  You should be able to park in any campus space on the weekend without being ticketed (just watch for signs prohibiting parking in specific reserved or handicapped spaces).  Otherwise you may also find street parking in the surrounding neighborhoods (again watch the signs for any prohibitions). 

At the Law School (6329 Freret Street):  Enter the building through the front entrance and turn left.  Room 151 will be on your left on the first floor, past the stairwell. 

I’m looking forward to seeing many of you in New Orleans.  Warm wishes for the holiday season.

Margie

********************************* Margaret K. Maes Executive Director Legal Information Preservation Alliance P. O. Box 5266 Bloomington, IN  47407 Phone:             812-822-2773       mailto:mkmaes@gmail.com

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LIPA and NELLCO collaborate on PALMPrint

LIPA is pleased to announce Preserving America’s Legal Materials in Print (PALMPrint), an exciting collaborative pilot project aimed at developing a shared, circulating collection of primary U.S. legal materials in print. Working with NELLCO, the two organizations jointly have committed to underwrite $120,000.00 of the total cost of the three-year project. The remaining costs will be shared by the participating libraries. LIPA and NELLCO hope to secure commitments from at least 50 member libraries in order to keep participation costs to $1600 per library, per year. If we reach the larger goal of 100 member libraries participating, the annual cost will be less than $1,000.00 per library.

More information about the project is available in this overview. More than 60 member librarians have attended informational webinars to learn more about the project.

Several years of exploration, research, listening and learning have gone into this project proposal. Librarians across the country are working on the issue of the retention of and persistent access to print materials in an increasingly digital world. A number of different print archiving projects are currently underway, and they include both centralized and distributed models.

LIPA and NELLCO are thrilled to launch this project and hope it will serve as a model for a collaborative solution to print retention of legal material, allowing libraries to make different decisions about library space at the local level. In this way, libraries can continue to be responsive to the changing needs of their users, secure in the knowledge that primary print materials are within reach and under the stewardship of the collaborative.

Margie

********************************* Margaret K. Maes Executive Director Legal Information Preservation Alliance P. O. Box 5266 Bloomington, IN  47407 Phone: 812-822-2773       mailto:mkmaes@gmail.com

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