Please join the Digital Preservation Interest Group for our session at
ALA Midwinter 2014 in Philadelphia.

Sunday, January 26, 2014, 8:30am-10am
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room PCC-203 B

The session will feature lighting talks from participants in the
National Digital Stewardship Residency program.

The National Digital Stewardship Residency program offers ten recent
Master’s-level graduates in the library science and related digital
fields the opportunity to gain professional experience at the Library
of Congress and other prestigious host institutions in the Washington,
D.C. area. The inaugural class of residents arrived in Washington in
September 2013 to participate in the nine-month program. This
lightning talk session will introduce the residents and expand upon
their project work and experience as residents in the program. The
residents and projects that will be discussed are:

Julia Blase; University of Denver; National Security Archive; to take
a snapshot of all archive activities that involve the capture,
preservation and publication of digital assets.

Heidi Dowding; Wayne State University; Dumbarton Oaks Research Library
and Collection; to identify an institutional solution for long-term
digital asset management, conduct research on a variety of software
systems and draft an institutional policy for the appraisal and
selection of content destined for preservation.

Maureen Harlow; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; National
Library of Medicine; create a collection of web content on a specific
theme or topic of interest such as medicine and art or the e-patient
movement.

Jaime McCurry; Long Island University; Folger Shakespeare Library; to
establish local routines and best practices for archiving and
preserving the institution’s digital content.

Lee Nilsson; Eastern Washington University; Library of Congress,
Office of Strategic Initiatives; to analyze the future risk of
obsolescence to digital formats used at the Library and work with
Library staff to develop an action plan to prevent the risks.

Margo Padilla; San Jose State University, Maryland Institute for
Technology in the Humanities; to create and share a research report
for access models and collection interfaces for born-digital literary
materials. She will also submit recommendations for access policies
for born-digital collections.

Emily Reynolds; University of Michigan; The World Bank Group; to
facilitate and coordinate the eArchives digitization project,
resulting in the creation of a digitized and cataloged historical
collection of key archival materials representing more than 60 years
of global development work.

Molly Schwartz; University of Maryland; Association of Research
Libraries; to strengthen and expand a new initiative on digital
accessibility in research libraries by incorporating a universal
design approach to library collections and services.

Erica Titkemeyer; New York University; Smithsonian Institution
Archives; to identify the specialized digital and curatorial
requirements of time-based media art and establish a benchmark of best
practices to ensure that institution’s archives will stand the test of
time.

Lauren Work; University of Washington; Public Broadcasting Service; to
develop and apply evaluation tools, define selection criteria and
outline recommended workflows needed to execute a successful analog
digitization initiative for the PBS moving image collection.

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Meghan Banach Bergin
Coordinator, Bibliographic Access and Metadata Unit
Information Resources Management Department/W.E.B. Du Bois Library
University of Massachusetts
154 Hicks Way
Amherst, MA 01003
Telephone (413) 545-6846
Fax (413) 545-6494
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"If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even
less."--General Eric Shinseki, former U.S. Army Chief of Staff

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