2008 METRO President's Forum

Digital Preservation:
Policy, Strategy, Solutions

Sessions from 2008 President's Forum:

“Preservation Trends and Strategies”
Lars Meyer, Sr. Director, Content Division, Emory University Libraries
[bio]

“Legal Obstacles and Policy Objectives for Digital Preservation Initiatives”
June Besek, Executive Director, Kernochan Center for Law, Media,
and the Arts, Columbia University Law School
[bio]

“Collaborative Approaches to Preserving Electronic Resources”
Eileen Fenton, Executive Director, Portico
[bio]
[slides]

Summary and Closing Remarks
James G. Neal
[bio]

Additional Reading and Resources:

• Digital Preservation: A Time Bomb for Digital Libraries
  By Margaret Hedstrom
• Digital Preservation of e-Journals in 2008: Urgent Action Revisited: Results from a Portico/Ithaka Survey of U.S. Library Directors
• Digital Preservation Handbook : Created by the Digital Preservation Coalition
• International Study on the Impact of Copyright Law on Digital Preservation: A report prepared by The Library of Congress (through the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program) and three international partners in preparation for the World Intellectual Property Organization  International Workshop on Digital Preservation and Copyright held in Geneva, Switzerland on July 15, 2008. 
• Library of Congress Digital Preservation Resources
• PADI : A Subject Gateway to International Digital Preservation Resources
• Preserv Bibliography on Digital Preservation
• Preservation in an Era of Large Scale Digitization: A White Paper
  by Oya Y. Rieger
• Portico : A Digital Preservation and Electronic Archiving Service
• Section 108 Study Group Report: Executive Summary