Professional Reading Shelf
The Partnership for a Nation of Learners
Museums
Source: PNL PNL Announces 2nd Videoconference
"CPB [Corporation for Public Broadcasting] and IMLS [Institute of Museum and Library Services] are pleased to announce a 2nd Partnership for a Nation of Learners Community Collaboration Videoconference, to be held on Monday, June 19, 2006, from 1:00-3:00 PM. This will once again be an opportunity for local museums, libraries, and public broadcasters to get to know another, to concentrate on why and how their organizations should be working together, and to learn how to gain support for local collaborative projects."
See Also: Text Transcripts of Past Events
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Institute of Museum and Library Services IMLS Debuts New Web Site
IMLS.gov gets a new look.
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Digital Preservation
Source: Library of Congress New Informational Web Site: Library of Congress Web Capture
"The Library of Congress has just launched a Web site devoted to information about its program to capture and preserve historically important Web sites so that they can be accessed by future generations of users. The Library of Congress and libraries and archives around the world are interested in collecting and preserving content on the Web because an ever-increasing amount of the world's cultural and intellectual output is created in digital formats and does not exist in any physical form. Creating an archives of Web sites supports the goals of the Library's Digital Strategic Plan, announced in March 2003, which focuses on the collection and management of digital content. The Web Capture Program is directly related to the Library's larger digital preservation program, called the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (www.digitalpreservation.gov). The subject areas in which the Library has been collecting Web sites include recent Supreme Court nominations; Hurricane Katrina; and the papal transition following the death of John Paul II. Current collecting projects include the crisis in Darfur, Sudan; the Iraq War; and the upcoming Election 2006. The Library collects Web sites only after it has received formal permission from Web site content owners to do so." See Also: List of Projects See Also: Learn About LC's Minerva Archiving Project See Also: NARA/Internet Archive Collection of U.S. Government Web Material NOW Keyword Searchable
"Roughly 75 million web pages and represents about 50,000 '.gov' and '.mil' unrestricted federal web sites active between 10/14/04 and 11/19/04."
-- Preservation
Source: Ottawa Citizen It's a race against time
"Sgt. Tremblay manages a small team of civilian researchers, image technicians, and a string of rotating personnel reassigned to light duty for medical reasons that is trying to scan these photos onto compact discs that are supposed to last 300 years. The scanned pictures will then be sent to Library and Archives Canada for proper storage. But lack of funding and personnel has severely hampered those efforts and the library loses between one and two per cent of its collection -- 10,000 to 20,000 images -- every year because they are not being stored properly. 'It's a race against time,' said Sgt. Tremblay, who estimates it will cost between $1.5 million and $2.5 million over five years to scan and catalogue all of the library's images. That doesn't include the nearly 45,000 reels of old film stored in the building's basement that are in the same peril."
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Public Libraries--Financial Issues
Source: Boston.com Cash-strapped town may close its library
"Medway residents will decide next month whether to close their public library to help the cash-strapped town cut costs and balance its budget. The library's budget of around $280,000 would be part of a package of around $868,000 in proposed cutbacks that voters will weigh at a June 12 Town Meeting."
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