Over twenty Library of Congress staff had an opportunity to participate in a special workshop, Digital Preservation Management: Implementing Short-term Strategies for Long-term Problems, hosted by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, held September 21-22, 2009 in Washington, DC.
Initially developed at the Cornell University Library and supported with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Digital Preservation Management workshops are structured curricula geared toward managing digital preservation planning and policies for libraries, archives, and other cultural heritage institutions. The goal of the workshop is to provide those managers and staff responsible for digital assets the practical means to exercise stewardship in an age of technological change. Many institutions struggle with the initial stages of developing digital preservation policies, and the workshop aides participants in understanding the fundamental pieces of how to think about and enact planning for organizations.
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The next five-day workshops will be held October 11-16, 2009 at the University of Michigan - where Martha Anderson, director of program management for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, will be the keynote speaker - and June 13-18, 2010 at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more information about the workshops, please visit: www.icpsr.umich.edu/dpm/workshops/fiveday.html.
Source: National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program / Library of Congress
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