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Serial Holdings Overlap Scenarios
I put together this Excel-based Holdings Overlap Scenarios Toy as a prop for thinking about cooperative print archives during the run-up to WeST and some shared print projects with the University of California system. On opening the spreadsheet, you will see a randomly generated scenario for a 100-part serial held among a batch of institutions, each of…
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Digital Asset Management Talk
I’ll be speaking on November 16 at Digital Asset Management Los Angeles 2010. I’m going to talk about the way the cultural heritage sector evaluates systems, focusing on our inevitable need to make a transition between technological platforms. I think this can create a dynamic where vendors are trying to sell best of breed technology,…
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Survey Methods
I owe many of my favorite ideas about library preservation assessment to birds and trash. I have a friend who does ornithological research into the effects of habitat development and disturbance on breeding shorebirds, specifically the changing relationship between humans and arctic shorebirds in response to a new landfill in Barrow, Alaska. Birds being generally…
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American Ruins Funded!
I’m really pleased to announce that Matt Bergstrom’s fascinating project, American Ruins in 3D, has reached full funding. I can’t wait to fire up the Viewmaster.
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Webinar: Managing Collections in the Networked Environment: New Analytic Approaches
On September 9 (11:00 am, Pacific Daylight Time , GMT-07:00), I gave a presentation about the preservation review methods that are in development at UCLA Library as part of an OCLC Research Webinar, entitled “Managing Collections in the Networked Environment: New Analytic Approaches.” Constance Malpas hosted this panel, which featured Helen Look (University of Michigan), Zack Lane…
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Kickstarter: Industrial Decay
Another Kickstarter project is a go! This project is called Industrial Decay, a photo series and book of Doug Spices evocative photos of abandoned buildings and industrial sites. You can see some of the photography on Flikr.
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What to do before you digitize, a roadmap for smaller institutions
Here are the slides from “What To Do Before You Digitize, a Roadmap for Smaller Institutions.” You can download them in grayscale (best for black & white printers; 6.8MB PDF) or download in color (9.8MB PDF), and as a youtube video: Some additional resources we discussed during the session: Peter Hirtle’s guide to copyright and…
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PAIG 2010: From Survey to Audit
Here’s a quicktime movie of the slides from the presentation for the Preservation Administration Discussion Group at ALA Annual 2010, in Washington, D.C. Click the space bar to advance through the quicktime slides, or watch the whole thing drift by on youtube, below:
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Upcoming Talks at ALA
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…
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Library Binding Workshop: Arcadia, CA
On May 14, the California Preservation Program (CPP) and the Library Binding Institute (LBI) held a workshop on library binding at the Arcadia Public Library, in Arcadia, CA. I attended to speak briefly about preservation and work with people during the afternoon hands-on session. Commercial binding is the gateway service to other preservation and conservation services in libraries. I had…
