Hello Colleagues! Thanks so much for the overwhelming interest in initiat ing a regional Digital Preservation Practitioners Meeting. Below is the meeting announcement. We want to be clear that this is your group and we all have to mold it for our professional needs. When: Wednesday April 24, 2013 at 6pm (Preservation Week) Where: WSU School of Library and Information Science, 315 Kresge in the Purdy/Kresge Library http://maps.wayne.edu/view/#purdy-kresge What: Digital Preservation Practitioners Meeting - Everyone is invited whether student or professional. If you can get here from whatever geograp hic loc ation, you are welcome to participate. The Plan: Tour of WSU SLIS Digital Media Projects Lab which is capable of many formats of digital migration and a DSpace Demo. Followed by br ainstorming to prio ritiz e our biggest issues and what we want to explore as a group. We are working on creating a list of those interested but until then we do have an initial blog http://digitalpreservationpractitioners.wordpress.com/ . More soon, Kim Schroeder Lecturer and Career Advisor Wayne State University School of Library and Information Science [log in to unmask] and Lance Stuchell Digital Preservation Librarian Department of Preservation and Conservation University Library, University of Michigan phone: 734-615-2686 lstuch@umich .edu ############################ To unsubscribe from the NDSA-ALL list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://list.digitalpreservation.gov/scripts/wa-DIGITAL.exe?SUBED1=NDSA-ALL&A=1