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Remarks for the Jikji to Gutenberg Colloquium
The Library of Congress hosted the “From Jikji to Gutenberg Scholarly Colloquium” on April 13–14, 2023. My opening remarks are available to view on YouTube and a transcript is included below.
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Spem in alium: Orchestrating preservation
[These remarks were delivered to the Preservation Administration Interest Group at the American Library Association’s 2017 Annual Conference in Chicago, IL. By way of context, it was just announced that I was taking up the position of Director for Preservation at the Library of Congress. I spoke about preservation in libraries, but I believe that…
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UCLA Library Cooperative Library Services Talk
On September 18, 2015, I had the pleasure of spending the day at UCLA Library talking about the work we’re engaged in around cooperative print preservation and the ways that a shared service layers that can provide better access to research collections. I want to thank Sharon Farb and Dawn Aveline, particularly, for putting this event together. It was a…
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Unusually Effective: Policy, Evidence, and Strategy in Collection Management
On October 20, 2011, I’ll be the guest speaker for the UCLA GSE&IS Colloquim Series, in a talk I’ve called “Unusually Effective: Policy, Evidence, and Strategy in Collection Management.” I’ll talk about some of the ways that UCLA Library’s Preservation Department is engaged with the issues at stake in stewardship of the printed record and…
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Tour and Talk for the Horn Press
I’m looking forward to a visit with the students of the Horn Press on Weds, Feb. 17. UCLA Library’s conservator, Kristen St. John, will be giving a tour of the Library Conservation Center and afterwards I’ll be speaking about the state of things in library preservation and showing photos from a few disaster response projects.…
