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Webwise – Day 2

Web Wise Day 3 Dr. Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services, Library of Congress kicked off the morning with a keynote entitled “Digitization for Access AND Preservation: Strategies of the Library of Congress”   NDIIPP (http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/index.html)  One of the really interesting things she spoke about was the new digital preservation center they are building which will [...]

Webwise – Day 1 – The Afternoon Sessions

The Challenge of Preservation Today moderated by Tom Clareson, Program Director for New Initiatives, Palinet, Inc. began the afternoon. Ann Russell, the Executive Director, Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), started off the afternoon introducing a project they have been working on for the past couple of years in a presentation called “Surveying the Digital Readiness [...]

“K” is for Keynotes – Webwise Day 1 – Morning

The Morning Day kicked off with remarks from Anne-Imelda Radice, IMLS Director (http://www.imls.gov/), Mr. Jay Jordan OCLC CEO and President  (http://www.oclc.org/) ; Dr. Kenneth Hamma , Executive Director, J. Paul Getty Trust (www.getty.edu) – these three public figures represent the three organizing agencies of the Webwise conference. Jay Jordan gave an interesting survey of OCLC, [...]

“A” is for Articulate – Webwise – Preconference Workshops

From the floor of WebWise Missed the morning pre-conference workshop because of a travel glitch, which was a shame because the morning line-up for a workshop entitled “Preserving Digital Collections” had Priscilla Caplan, Valerie Glenn, Mary Ide, and Rick Rinehart as headliners.  Reports were good coming out of the session but the cocktail reception doesn’t [...]

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Hi there, man behind the curtain here. We’ve been getting pounded by spam lately so I’ve raised our threat level to Ernie. If you post a comment and it doesn’t immediately appear, it may be waiting for me to moderate it. JT mentioned that authors were not appearing in feeds, so I’ve added the Better [...]