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Planning for Worst: Disasters in High Density Storage Facilities
I am speaking at “Planning for Worst: Disaster Planning and Response in High Density Storage Facilities” on June 26, 8 am in the Morial Convention Center, Room 343. While disaster planning in libraries is well established, very few libraries have plans specific to the challenging environment of high-density storage. Simple activities such as removal and…
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Preservation of E-Reference Sources
I’ll be speaking to the Reference Publishers Advisory Committee of RUSA on the afternoon of June 25th, 1:30-3:30 in room 342 of the Morial Convention Center. Slides, links, and follow up information will be posted here. My centers on Craig Mod’s ideas about pre- and post- artifactual publishing practices and around that core, builds a…
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ALA Annual 2011: Common Sense Preservation Assessment
I’ll be leading a session called “Common Sense Preservation Assessment” for Rural, Native, and Tribal Libraries Of All Kinds (RNTLOAK) at ALA Annual 2011, on Monday, June 27, from 10:30am-12:00pm. I’ve done a few sessions for RNTLOAK and it’s one of the most interesting groups for me. I personally benefit from thinking through what really matters and trying to…
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ALA Annual 2011: Have Metadata, Can Collaborate: Putting the MARC21 583 Field to Use in Cooperative Preservation Efforts
I’m speaking at an ALA Annual Program called “Have Metadata, Can Collaborate: Putting the MARC21 583 Field to Use in Cooperative Preservation Efforts.” The session is on Sunday, June 26, 2011, 1:30–3:30pm, in the New Orleans Morial Convention Center, Room 342. This program will showcase a variety of ways that libraries are communicating about their preservation and conservation activities. My section…
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Scarcity and Preservation Decision-Making
I’ve been working on a number of projects to incorporate holdings data into preservation decision-making at UCLA Library. The first paper from that, co-authored with Dawn Aveline and Annie Peterson, is forthcoming in an ALCTS Monograph, Shared Collections: Collaborative Stewardship. The current pre-print draft and supporting materials are available below, along with links to presentations and…
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Preservation Week Posts
For Preservation Week 2011, I wrote a series of posts for the UCLA Library Preservation Department Weblog. Those are linked here and archived after the fold. Monday, April 25: Tangible Records Tuesday, April 26: Projects versus Progress Wednesday, April 27: Data! Thursday, April 28: Preservation Education Friday, April 29:Preservation Administrators and Conservators
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Fundamentals of Preservation
The next installment of Fundamentals of Preservation runs May 16-June 10. You can contact me for more information through the comment form (nothing is posted publicly; it just sends me an email) or you learn more and register for the course at the ALCTS website. I co-developed Fundamentals of Preservation with Karen Brown (SUNY Albany) as part of the…
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Assoc. for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Workshop
On May 11, I’ll be co-leading “Audio Archives 101: Identification, Organization, and Preservation,” the pre-conference workshop for ARSC 2011. The conference is in Los Angeles, downtown at the Westin Bonaventure. Audio archives are a fascinating part of the library, archive, and museum sector. As a preservation librarian, the media in these collections pose a lot…
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Fundamentals of Preservation
I co-developed Fundamentals of Preservation with Karen Brown (SUNY Albany) as part of the ALCTS continuing education series. This course is part of the three-course series that makes up the Library Support Staff Certification Program Collection Management elective. Fundamentals of Preservation was recently mentioned in the American Libraries Winter Digital Supplement (Pages 11-12) on e-learning. You can contact me for…
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Collections of Record
Some remarks related to two recent snippets from reading about the evolving landscape of shared collections: From Rick Lugg (http://sampleandhold-r2.blogspot.com/2011/02/misspent-funds-or-strategic-reserve.html) A strategic reserve of both print and digital scholarship seems an obvious choice. But like the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, this should be coordinated at the national or regional level, and the costs should be borne by…
