I will be giving two presentations at the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC.
On June 25, I’ll be giving a presentation at the Preservation Administration Interest Group. PAIG meets from 1-5 in the Mayflower Renaissance, Colonial Ballroom. I’m on the agenda for around 3:30. The talk is “From Survey to Audit,” on the work we’re doing at UCLA to do surveys and audits of our collections. The hooks are that 1) we have a common conceptual model for these efforts that let us harmonize preservation data collection and 2) we have some tools and techniques for making surveys fast and reliable.
On June 26, I’ll be giving a short program on “What To Do Before You Digitize, a Roadmap for Smaller Institutions” from 4:00 – 5:30 at the Washington Convention Center, room 202A. This session will cover the issues to consider before you digitize so you can successfully plan, implement, and maintain a digital collection. We’ll focus on basic concepts of digital project planning and digital preservation to make sure that your digital collections are safely stored, properly formatted, and accompanied with useful metadata so that when changes come, your collections will be ready for them.