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OCLC joins LOCKSS Alliance *DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 22 June 2006—*OCLC has joined more than 90 libraries from around the world that participate in the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) Alliance, a library membership consortium and active user community that provides open-source archiving software as a means to build digital collections. OCLC joins LOCKSS in support of its collaborative effort to explore new uses of the LOCKSS technology to benefit the community and to build new capabilities for digital preservation. OCLC will work collaboratively with LOCKSS to explore the expansion of the LOCKSS technology to operate with different types of digital content. "OCLC is proud to join the LOCKSS Alliance," said Phyllis Spies, OCLC Vice President of Collection Management Services. "The distributed technical infrastructure and community governance of LOCKSS enables libraries to take custody of and preserve cultural and social assets for future generations. LOCKSS is of growing interest to OCLC members worldwide as they chart a course in collection development of digital resources." "This is a particularly appropriate time for enrollment in the LOCKSS Alliance given the recent coming together of OCLC and RLG, two organizations that have dedicated much work to digital preservation," Ms. Spies continued. "We look forward to exploring this shared model for sustainability of digital assets." Members of the LOCKSS Alliance are interested in participating in the development and expansion of applications and services. Additionally, the Alliance community will help determine long-term priorities and strategies for digital preservation software and program evolution. "OCLC's participation demonstrates and solidifies the sustainability of the LOCKSS Alliance model for a community-based archival solution," said Victoria Reich, Director of the LOCKSS Program, Stanford University Libraries. "By accepting this leadership role, OCLC will foster broader adoption of LOCKSS so librarians can cost-effectively build collections and retain their libraries' essential role as memory organizations." LOCKSS' open-source software provides librarians a low-maintenance mechanism for collecting, storing and long-term access to a library's own local copy of authorized content. LOCKSS "boxes" at 157 institutions in more than 20 countries comprise a peer-to-peer system that automatically cross-checks content to ensure the accuracy and completeness of all member archives. Eighty publishers are now participating in LOCKSS or actively preparing to add their journals to the program. Founded and based at the Stanford University Libraries, the LOCKSS Program is funded mainly by contributions from the member libraries of the LOCKSS Alliance. It has received major funding in the past from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Science Foundation. For more information about LOCKSS, visit <http://www.lockss.org/lockss/Home>. *About OCLC *Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit organization that has provided computer-based cataloging, reference, resource sharing, eContent and preservation services to 54,000 libraries in 109 countries and territories. OCLC and its member libraries worldwide have created and maintain WorldCat, the world's richest online resource for finding library materials. For more information, visit <http://www.oclc.org>. Find out more about OCLC <http://www.oclc.org/about/styleguide/boilerplate.htm> OCLC and WorldCat are trademarks/service marks of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. Third-party product, service and business names are trademarks and/or service marks of their respective owners. For more information: Bob Murphy [log in to unmask] +1-614-761-5136 -++**==--++**==--++**==--++**==--++**==--++**==--++**==--++**== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe lockss-group" to [log in to unmask]